Spring on Vac-kay 🌷 ❄️

While my phone is warning of snow showers this morning and mercury was 31 degrees and I turned on the heated blanket this morning, it could be worse, I can remember a few weeks back. Still after several 70 and 80 degree days, and things rapidly greening up all around, it’s a painful reminder that summer is not here yet. The warm coffee and blueberry pancakes help a lot with that tangy ginger warming up in my mouth.

Another work week ahead, 😀 on Friday Old Smokey gets his bed liner installed. Then just waiting for the truck cap. The first half of the week is expected to be fairly cold but then seasonable by the second half with rain coming for the weekend. ☔ It’s fine, this past weekend was pretty nice especially on Saturday but also Sunday evening was decent but chilly once the rain pulled off. No vacation for me, got to work all week so I have more money to dump into the SuperDuty as a poor desprate individual, while all you drive back and forth in your 25-year old Honda Civic to your plastic house with a recycling bin in suburbs. Listening to Karen Dalton’s Are You Leaving for the Country, remembering those very wet, cold and rainy days riding trail at Horseshoe Lake stoned out of my brain, taking in all those autumn colors last autumn. 🍁 Fun times on that final big trip with Big Red.

Riding in today and tomorrow most likely, 🥕 need to get Cider Vingar and carrots this evening, as I hate plain water and pancakes without carrots in the mix. 🥞 When you get used to having every meal with a lot of fiber that makes things crispy and filling, it just tastes so empty and plain without them. Those pancakes were good this morning but without the carrots, really felt not super filling. 🎂 Wednesday is not only Earth Day 🌎 but also Administrative Professionals Day, 🖥️ so I’ll have to get some cupcakes or other treat for the team in the office and have a meeting. Also there is a planning board on Wednesday, so I’ll have that to go to. Friday I have to drive early up to Adirondack Off-Road outside of Schenectady with my mountain bike, 🚲 drop the truck off to get the big spray-in bedliner done, then hop on an express bus 🚍 downtown and from there ride over to the office. 🏢

Went out and visited Mom and Dad last night, 👨‍👨‍👦 it was good and cleared out so I did a quick jog up Bennett Hill before dark. Came back over Plank Road, I was happy to see the bridge has a posted weight limit of 12 tons so I can take Old Smokey over it legally. I’ve discovered more then a few roads are off limits in town where I live due to signs either saying “Weight Limt 3 Tons” or “No Commercial Trucks”. Old Smokey is registered at 3 1/2 tons, and has commercial plates. That said, most of the roads also have “Except Local Delivery” and I doubt the cops would follow you along the road to see if you’re just passing through, especially on just a 1-ton pickup. Still I try to follow the law when I think cops 👮 might be looking. It’s stupid, it’s a gasser pickup, and only 1 1/2 inches longer then my lifted Silverado. There was a surprising amount of color on Bennett Hill, and it wasn’t pungent with the stink of cow 🐮 then I expected for spring time, but it looks they’ve already disced the cow shit into the fields. 🚜 Planting season is probably only a month away.