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Andy Arthur

After getting COVID at the end of 2024 and sleeping through much of the holiday season, πŸ›Œ it's good to be up and back at my game again. It's cold and dark this time of year, πŸ₯Ά but I figure focus on learning and working, while counting down the days until Punxsy sees or does not see his shadow. 🐻

Over the Old Dam

I bet John Wolcott would have liked that they saved the old dam hit by the meteorite, and put a bridge by where the old bridge and road was, and kept the famous DANGER STOP DANGER sign relocated to the other side of the bridge. I was afraid it was gone but they just relocated the sign so it's easier to see from the trail.

Taken on Saturday January 4, 2025 at Albany Pine Bush.

Alcohol causes cancer 🍻

This is not exactly news, those the Surgeon General officially saying it and recommending labels on beer and wine to that effect is certainly newsworthy. It’s easy to now stigmatize drinkers much like smokers, though it’s not a useful way to think about risk.

As the joke is about Proposition 69 warnings, everything causes cancer in California. But there are many products of modern life that are harmful but impossible to completely live without. You have to weight the risks and know certain choices may reduce your lifespan. On the other hand, you should worry more about big risks then little risks like that occasional beer or smoke with friends.

Down To Moscow Hill Camping Area

Rogers Environmental Education Center, like much of Madison and Oneida Counties was a sea of browns and grays, as the lack of snow left the land open and exposesed. The corn residue and manure sat in forefront, waiting dorimently for naothr planting season to occur.

Taken on Sunday December 29, 2019 at Brookfield, New York.