Sore elbow and hand 💪

I had a bit of a boo-boo at the Potholers yesterday, slipped while walking across them falling and cracking my arm good and hard. Don’t think I broke my arm but I did pull a muscle or something, as I can feel it when I crimp down my hands or lift something. Not sure if I need to go to the doctor but it’s still painful. To boot my other hand has a sore finger, as I got a splinter next to one of my nails and it’s slowly but surely recovering but slowly.

Andy’s got a boo-boo! 🚴 Let’s be honest I’m not that crippled from the slip and fall as I rode my mountain bike, something like 20 miles from Canajaoharie out to St. Johnsville down to the historic lock and the old St. Johnsville town dump. Those duroc hogs on that beautiful homestead in St. Johnsville are getting big. 🐽 Didn’t see them at first because they were wallowing in the mud and hiding in the weeds to avoid the heat, and wind was blowing the other way. But that burn barrel along the trail was pungent. 🛢️ I can’t complain much though as there hasn’t been a piece of burnable trash that I’ve sent to the landfill since April nor have have I saved anything but flattened, burnt-out cans for recycling ♻️ from fires I’ve had. 🔥 I think though I prefer my fires much hotter, plastic makes an excellent fire starter to a bonfire, with less stink and toxins. ☠️ You know I like the country hillbilly life with all the smells but also the reality of dirt, mud, manure and fire.  🐮 It was fun hanging out with those dudes form Utica this weekend. I’m actually surprised how little trash I’ve had lately during farmers market season due to all the fresh vegatables 🍆 I’ve been eating and composting the cores, but also having a lot of fires helps keep trash from accumulating.

The Shady Acres Drive proposed development is on the Guilderland Conservation Committee agenda again tonight, 🚧 so I’m driving in. I also need groceries – going to stop at Walmart and get bananas 🍌 and a bag of beans to soak tonight, 🫘 and I’m cooking rice up this morning. I should get some onions too. On the drive home, I’ll stop at the Voorheeesville Hannaford rather then Woke Market32 in Guilderland for hopefully some reasonably affordable perishables like frozen fruit and Greek yogurt. Also plan to do a hike in the Pine Bush 🌲 after the meeting to enjoy the sunset, and eat lots of blackberries. Just because I was foolish and did not go up to White House for the wild blueberries 🫐 this weekend – I thought it was going to be ungodly hot 😰 though it didn’t turn out that way – but the blackberries along Willow Road in the Pine Bush are likely to be amazing this evening if the early crop suggests.

Next weekend I may head out to Schoharie to swim in the pool 🏊 and maybe float in the Schoharie Creek by Mine Kill. Going to be definately warm enough for both of those activities. If I take 990V and head through the hill towns, rather then the Thruway, I won’t be so tired from the horrific rush hour traffic – it was bad last Friday. Last night looked Ike the Thruway had very heavy volume too – but I took NY 162 through Rural Grove and then US 20 home. 🍦 The Sharon Dairy Bar wasn’t so crowded last night but I decided against it after a weekend of drinking and smoking, preferring to just chomp down on a banana and have a few glasses of Cider-Vingar water once I got home. A week from Wednesday is when I’m thinking of leaving for the Finger Lakes but I want to wait until mid-week to get a better read on the weather and officially take those days off. 🏖️ Let’s sing along folks, Beach, baby, beach!