Last Sunday before the time change 🕒

Sunny and clear out here in Delmar, though I’m not sure the same thing could have been said about Schoharie. Maybe I should have headed out of town for the weekend, but it was fun riding down to Coeymans Creek Wildlife Management Area, Henry Hudson Park and Moh-He-Con-Nuck. And the bugs didn’t eat my alive at Moh-He-Con-Nuck.

Moh-He-Con-Nuck is kind of a crap preserve, indeed one where the Glen Jobs Corps dumps their garbage along, 🦌 but there was lots of Blue Jays, Red-Headed Woodpeckers and that doe to check out. I was surprised that I only saw one bow hunter at Coeymans Creek Wildlife Management Area but maybe there was others observing me pissing on the trees. While I’m sure that area is soaked with mercury from the cement plant before they installed scrubers and already dumped with a fair amount of old farm garbage, it is a remarkably neat to explore and now they have a designated and somewhat cleared yellow-blazed trail down to the Coeymans Creek, though the water levels were very low. 🎣 I wasn’t going to spend much time at Coeymans Creek thinking there would be a lot of bow and small game hunters out and about, but seeing no hunters pickups in the lot, I figured I’d walk and ride around a bit. 🚴 Bikes aren’t allowed off road on public hunting grounds, but you ride them on roads, though it can be a hard to know what is a road and which isn’t there. It was a 25 mile round trip, by the time I came back via the Albany County Rail Trail. And yes, I used the still closed ramp to Cherry Avenue, the concrete is well dry at this point but the politicians haven’t had their public maturation pleasure of cutting the ribbon. 🎀

I was home around 4 PM 🍲 and made a big pan up of rice with the remaining rice, lentils, onions, and soy sauce I had. It was good, I had the stove on very low so it took a lot longer then expected. Read to library books yesterday – kind of picture books – one on the History of the Adirondacks 1930-1980 and one  featuring historical postcards of the US 20 in New York. Both can be found on Libby. And finished up Michael Moss’ Salt, Sugar, Fat. 📖 Libby and Hoopla are such great assets, I don’t ever get physical books which are much to easy to destroy from the library. 📚 📱 Finished up at the split pea soup – all two pounds of it in like two days. Good stuff, I don’t complicate it, just peas, some onions, shredded carrots and a bit of salt. But don’t you need a million other ingredients to make it taste good? Of course, these are morbidly obese people who are horrified I could ever drag on a cigarette or smoke some weed up at camp. 🚬 Don’t you know smoking causes cancer, please pass the hamburger and twinky, 🧁🍔  the woke people says.

Heading out to Five Rivers this morning, 🐦 then I’ll shower and probably do a quick hike up Bennett Hill before heading out to see the folks. 🚶 Then I’ll go to Walmart on the way home and get flour and some of things to eat for the week like fresh and frozen vegetables. Need to empty out the compost bin when I’m out at the folks house, and I should return my beer cans from vacation as their currently in a big garbage bag in the back of my truck. ♻️ At some point I should also see if I can 🥫 toss the smashed cans for recycling in my parents bin, or ask the neighbors as while I don’t use many cans, I’ve accumulated a half bag since the last time I emptied the recycling barrel in April or so. I tend to burn out the cans, which makes them flatten better and recyclers don’t mind if you burn off the coatings – it’s actually better for their recycling equipment and doesn’t smell or attract bugs as store it before recycling. 🔥