A million white flowers in a field in the sky 💮
I don’t understand why the world has gotten so confusing while all I have is time to study the colors of wildflowers as pages fall violently off the calendar.
First thing is to fix the broke wires in my truck. 🔌 I’ll call the shop about getting the wheel bearing fixed on my truck and have them investigate other. I don’t know if it will get fixed this week but it’s fine I have my bike and I have things I need to get done before summer vacation. 🏖️
This this afternoon Mom and Dad are going to give me a ride out to their house, so I can spend it wish the neice and nephew. 🦀 We will play down in the creek and I figure I can do my wash while out there. It is a needed break. Sure I wish I had my truck and I was out in Schoharie but it’s kind of a cool day for swimming or floating. And the thing is there was a lot I needed done around the apartment before vacation.
Maybe I’ll head out on August 1st through the 10th, 🏊 though that second week is Race Week in Watkins Glen and I’ll have to reschedule my physical, or maybe I’ll do August 22nd through Labor Day for an even longer weekend when you tack Labor Day on it which is September 1st. Loose a lot of daylight by then. That later option seems better, it would avoid the Watkins Glen Race Weekend 🏎️ and I get an extra day out of it though more traffic coming home. That might be a nice option though.
The whole this is kind of dumb, 🚚 I knew about the issuse since Memorial Day but I really couldn’t point to it and except when the bearing was cold, I didn’t really notice the slop and I just chocked it up to the shocks being old, rusty and everything is kind of loose on the truck. 🛠️ It will get fixed and I’ll be back o the road by I’m sure early August – it’s not a big fix – but you know how shops are these days.
Prattsville
Driving through Prattsville on NY 23, still building rebuilt after Hurricane Irene.
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Building technology I do not like – asphalt roofs
One of the most common roofing materials in residential construction is the asphalt roof – literally hardened tar sprayed on felt paper and coated with a thin layer of colored rock powder. It’s cheap, nasty and disposable, meant to be used for a few years before hauled to the local dumping grounds.
In almost all ways, metal roofing is superior to individual shingles, beyond maybe appearance and initial cost of installation. Metal roofing lasts a lot longer, is fully recyclable, fire-resistant, and compatible with rain-water collection systems. Why pump water from deep underground, when you can literally get it off your roof? Literally with asphalt roofs, even if you’re not using the rainwater that falls on them, you’re still dumping polluted water as it runs over the petrochemical roof into your ground water.