Good morning! Happy National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 !

I mean who can be opposed to globs of dairy fat? I mean, you know all those chubby dairymen who burn like 5,000 calories a day shoveling manure and feed, but still are chubby over all that muscle.

Mostly cloudy and 20 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Tuesday around noontime. 🌡️

I was hoping to get out to Five Rivers yesterday afternoon, 🐦 but after it finally warmed up a bit, I was summoned to the office downtown to do some work. It’s just been a busy time with work, a lot of research and numbers they’ve been asking for lately. 🤖

So yes, I was downtown most of the afternoon. 👩‍💼 I could have gone to Five Rivers in the morning, but it was so bitterly cold. Sunny, but the mercury around negative 8. But at least I got the heat turned up in my apartment before it got cold out, so it’s been fairly comfortable in my apartment — I have barely turned my space heater over the past two days. I also find that the best way to use the heated blanket is to turn it on briefly before bed, get it nice and warm, then turn it off until I wake either in the morning or night when I’m cold. Actually keeping my bed cooler makes it easier to sleep. 💤

Finally took out the trash downstairs. 🗑 I’ve been regularly taking out the recycling ♻️ and the food waste 🍏 but hadn’t bothered with the actual trash, as over the past month it could barely fill a small plastic shopping bag, back when such things were common. I tend to have more trash in the summer months when I don’t bother with separating out things that are burnable except for paper to keep it dry. 🔥 But then again, it rarely accumulates more then two or three weeks and in many cases, when I’m up in the woods, it’s gone within an hour or two of being created.