The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. Or maybe it’s just the tanginess of the cow manure, as the shot ring out from the woods on this first day of hunting season.

It’s remarkably mild but windy this morning. If this was April, we would describe today as a chilly early spring day. But it’s the second half of November and there is no complaints about a day already close to 50 degrees and heading closer to 60 by mid-day. The sun is shining, and there is Red Flag conditions around, so probably today is not the best day to be lighting off your garbage heap in woods 🪵lest you get the attention of government enforcers. 👮 I know I’m not planning on burning anything until the end of the month after Thanksgiving for the Black Friday camping trip to the Adirondacks. But assuming a reasonable amount of snow, or at least things are damp, gotta to have a big fire to recycle ♻️ those plastic milk jugs etc. while smoking grass 🪴and drinking beer and singing along with the Dire Wolf.

The next two weekends will be stay in town this weekends, though in a bit I’m heading up to Colonie as I want to go to Salvation Army and look at a shirts for work 👨‍💼 and maybe another desk lamp for the office. And then maybe hit up Aldi’s and Walmart for some groceries and ride trail in Albany Pine Bush. Figuring it will be dark by around 5 PM or actually quite a bit earlier then that with the time change. Then I want to spend some time working with the soldering iron and maybe playing with VS Code and writing some code. And maybe some reading. A lot depends on how tired I’m at the end of the day. But first I wish it would warm up a bit more though it wasn’t that cold when I went out to get milk earlier in the day. That said, riding trail after dark might be a bucket of fun of in Albany Pine Bush under a full moon.

Tomorrow it’s out to see the folks. Looks like a nice day so I might go for a quick ride or hike in morning, and then out there fairly early as I don’t like driving home too late in darkness, though the full moon will help. Plus two working headlights. Back to work on Monday, it’s a five day in-person work, as the days of remote work are done for now, but that’s fine. I’m hoping to continue at least riding in the mornings. Hopefully though, we’ll get the much needed rain during the second half of the week, and I’ll have to bus and shuttle my way to work on those days.