Monday morning after the rain ☔

Sunny, mostly clear and cool with the breeze and temperatures in the sixties. I’m in no rush for anything this morning, no solid plans for today besides going to Watkins Glen midday to get supplies.

Yesterday turned out to be a nice day ☀️ though a lot hotter and humid then expected but I enjoyed just walking 🚶 around the National Forest and exploring. This year I really don’t have the urge to go out and rush around to see everything, indeed in years past I feel like I’ve seen most of the most interesting things in the area – plus there is still eight days left.

I discovered why the bike 🚲 tire wasn’t holding air. 🚲 Valve stem was cracked, all the fix a flat in the world can’t fix that. I put the spare tube on and checking the spokes and found I broke one either riding trail or more likely riding home with the soft but not flat tire. AI’m figuring I’ll ride the bike a bit and while I didn’t pack extra spokes or the torx 25 key if I need to I can get the wheek fixed in Ithaca. I’ll pick up another spare tube at Walmart to be safe and toss the old tube in a village garbage can as I’m not going to burn rubber trash. 👃 And I have plenty of old tubes at home not full of  tire slime.

I noticed it seems like the accessory battery 🔋 wasn’t charging well when the truck was running but I think it’s voltage drop on the gauge due to the neutral wire not having a good connection to the frame. Popped the hood and noticed the coolant was already a little bit below the full line despite topping it off before vacation. Things are tired 😫 and worn out on the truck. Fingers 🖕 crossed it makes it through summer vacation. At times there seems to be so much wrong with my increasingly worn out truck.

I have mixed feelings about taking it slow on vacation 🏖️ like I’m wasting my time reading 📖 and wandering pastures. I feel much too lazy just hanging out in the hammock drinking 🍻 and smoking all day. It’s not healthy! Still I want a slow paced summer vacation, I don’t want the stress of driving a long ways in my old truck, constantly racing the clock. I really do want to wile away the hours ⌛ without them disappearing too quickly. Labor Day and September will be here before you know it and I will have to head back home. 🏡 And then work.

I totally wanted to have a rip roaring fire 🔥 last night both because I knew it would be cold and wet and because I have a ton of camp garbage to burn up – a lot of wet garbage and plastics too from clam shells to corn cobs to the wrappers everything comes in. I haven’t had a fire since Thursday night because on the weekend night I got home late and last night it started pouring at 7 pm and continued well into the night 🛏️ after which I was snuggled up in my truck camper.