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Andy Arthur

It's the second half of November as the label job I ran today reminds me. 🏷️ The landscape is cold and barren, it's dark out for a good portion of day, and riding home in the dark isn't much fun. But you make the best of it, and I figure the extra sleep and time to learn isn't a bad thing. πŸ›Œ Next adventure after Thanksgiving! πŸ¦ƒ Hopefully the fire risk is down by then as I want to have a big bonfire in wilderness πŸ”₯ after a good day riding trail or hiking. 🚢

Fresh ginger 🫚

I got some fresh ginger roots at Aldi’s yesterday and it’s been in every meal since then. Even more pungent and delicious then the ground ginger I normally use while cooking.

It’s always nice when you get back from the grocery store and your pantry πŸ§… πŸ₯¦ 🍌 is fully stocked. Dinner was a delicious mixture of onions, corn, cornmeal, garlic, fresh ginger. Breakfast was onions, eggs, tomatoes, lots of ginger and garlic, more corn and cornmeal, tons of tumeric and a bit of salt. Good start to the day, and I chopped up even more of the fresh ginger in my coffee. And more onions for lunch. πŸ‘ƒ There is probably a reason why my kitchen regularly smells like onions, I eat so many of them.

Yesterday was fun but a bit cool out riding in the Albany Pine Bush. 🚴 I went for a walk around Crossgates Maul after riding in the Pine Bush, that is once I found parking, after turning in the wrong parking lot that was already full by Best Buy. πŸ…Ώ The maul is smaller then I remembered, I walked the entire internal corridor in about 15 or 20 minutes and headed back to my truck. Wasn’t a single store or business that interested me at the maul. Still lots of smell of those stinky perfumes that teenagers like, and the Apple store was absolutely packed. Honestly, I felt more at home when I got into the b

Pastures – 1952

Pastures - 1952

This shows the pastures neighborhood in 1952 before Interstate 787 was built. Notice how the superhighway replaced the old train tracks, or at least covered them up.