Day: September 11, 2025💾

How fast the time goes over the years. Many of my younger colleagues, indeed some of the people I’ve hired over the years weren’t even born on that brilliantly sunny September 11th so many years ago when the World Trade Center was hit by those air planes.

I woke early, around 3:30 or so and listened to podcasts and the radio until 5 AM when I got up to get the beans and bread baking. I had the windows closed last night, and that makes always for tough sleeping. The oven not been on in months stunk, so I rushed to pull down the smoke detector lest it go off and kept an eye on stove burner so it wouldn’t catch fire or have other problems as I boiled down the beans and made eggs and coffee. Everything like usual had a lot of zucchini involved that I got from the farmers market yesterday. Because I was up so early this morning, things are a bit of a haze.

Last night I rode straight home on my bike loaded down with those giant zucchuni. Fried some of them up with onions and then it was out to the Elm Avenue Town Park for a while. But it got dark quickly, especially with me going home first for a quick dinner. I sat down at the park well until dark, before riding home. Charging the lights on my bike today, pretty sure I will go to Five Rivers one last time after work and sit or maybe a hike a bit until dark. With the fully charged lights I can probably stay until 7:30 PM or so especially in the back part of the preserve without anybody trying to kick me out. Then ride back home, get some of those kidney beans out of the fridge and some of the bread. Both the cornmeal bread and the zucchini bread I made were pretty good, the small slices I had earlier.

I was listening to Democracy NOW on the bike ride in this morning. Just a perfect September morning, so much like that one 24 years ago when I was in college. Seems hard to believe so much time passed, it seems like just yesterday was the 10th anniversary of September 11th. I remember going to that commemoration that had in well of Legislative Office Building. I am amazed that Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales still do this program after all these years, their alternative view points are important as they give more of a full coverage with some spin on the events of the day. I tell you with the light north breeze and temperature inversion though that sewage sludge incinerator that rains down PFOAs was pretty stinky this morning. Still I can believe how the time has passed.

Still looking at Vermont for the weekend, but I’m not set on it as Sunday either looks like showers or a good soaker and it’s a long trip to Vermont. And I keep seeing all the produce that Shauls currently has, and that pulls on my heart strings. Mine Kill Pool is done for the year, but its probably too cool to swim at this point, and who knows how much water is left in the Schoharie Creek near Towpath Mountain. Rensselearville State Forest is another option. though I’m thinking more about that the following weekend. I guess I don’t have to pick a destination for sure before leaving the office tomorrow.