It could have been yesterday but I didn’t feel like driving to work. It’s three days off the road not the end of the world. Gave me an excuse to get in a bunch of walking yesterday, and those days are over now. Riding to work tomorrow, got meetings all afternoon downtown.
Rode out to Five Rivers 🐸 and read for a while before heading back home with darkness coming earlier and earlier. 📖 Didn’t take the fastest route back home but it’s pitch black by 8:45 at this point. Autumn is rapidly approaching. 🌃 It’s nice to be back on the road. I drove in today and it wasn’t bad except for that OGS Employee at the pump station who I wasn’t sure if he was going to back into me. 💥 I forget when you don’t drive regularly that near misses and blushes with death ☠ are a normal part of motoring. Maybe I should get that recalled passenger air bag inflator replaced. 🎈
Nice moon lit evening for sitting out back 🎑 though it’s getting late and I should head into bed 🛏 soon. Fried egg plant 🍆 with onions and tofu for dinner. Then after the ride, banana 🍌 and shredded oatmeal with some sugar free maple 🍁 syrup. Good enough of a dinner and snack. It’s really getting late and I said I would be in the office 🏢 by eight tomorrow ⏰ and damn sure I’m riding in. Once this track is done on the Peter, Paul and Mary album. 💿
I was happy as a pig 🐽 in shit 💩 that I could get baking powder in an all plastic container at Price Chopper. Not only did I need baking powder, I hate the aluminum and paper containers that after you burn 🔥 them you have to pick the aluminum out of the fire. I can also in theory recycle ♻ such things but we all known it’s a scam and in the fire it fully disappears down to nothing. Don’t tell a liberal that. I also got grapes 🍇 and bananas 🍌 so I can continue to rot out my teeth. 🦷 Smoking all that grass – all $40 of it this summer – makes me think a lot about what is right and wrong and the bull shit we all live in especially after my trip to BFE Pennsyltucky a few weeks back. 😂
I want to get out camping this weekend again 🌧️, but I don’t think the weather will cooperate though the forecast seems to be improving. I guess I don’t need that much gear for Schoharie but also I see summer fading away so quickly. 🏖 👉 🍂 And I don’t know if it will be the last summer of my youth. I’m still looking at finding a home 🏡 but then that will be it and days of travel and enjoying summer will be replaced with fixing the plaster and hauling buckets of grain out to hogs 🐽 and caring for the grass, yes the kind you smoke. That’s the only kind I approve of besides the kind out in pasture for the cattle to graze on. 🐮 One of my elementary school 🚸 colleagues is selling a batch of feeder pigs 🐖 if your interested. Never fried zucchini in bacon 🥓 fat and cannabis but I’ve heard it’s good. Next week are taking us out to 677 Prime, that hundred 💯 dollar a plate 🍽 steakhouse 🥩 and they wanted to know if I still eat meat. Housekeeping is paying. Not regularly, but there is an exception for everything. 🤷♂️
I have been thinking more about findingZen. 🪷 At one time I used to think Zen was just another excuse for crass commercialism and not caring about tomorrow. But after reading 📖 and crying over the Art and Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, 🏍 smoking some grass 🦗 and listening to the Grateful Dead 🎸, I’m starting to realize it’s something different. You can care about today while being responsible for tomorrow. I’m really hoping that a week from Friday I can get off from work and be fully off the grid and spend the day studying the clouds ⭕ all day from the tube on the East Canada Creek. It might be the last time of the year. I do plan to get to Speculator for Labor Day Weekend but I’m sure that will be a remote work trip as will be most of the autumn trips. 🍂 Now if they can only get the internet working on the snazzy work laptop. 🖥
“I need a song, but the spring is for sowing A word to the wise that the Earth must provide A tomb to untangle the riddle of growing First things first when you get to the land”
When you look at the map of the election districts that are red, you might think Albany County is redder then it really is. But truth be told, that redness is misleading as the red districts are rural and large in area but have close to the same population as many city election districts.
The fire tower is a 30 foot LS 45 Aermotor tower, pretty typical for NY State. It's one of the short little towers, like also seen on Rondaxe Mountain in Eagle Bay.
