Taking Friday Off 🏕️

I took today off not because I needed to or had big bold plans outside of a few nights camping and some other personal business to attend to but I figured I have the time. Use it now rather then burn it up at the end of year by taking unnecessary days off or giving it back to state for nothing.

I was able to get clams at Price Chopper this morning. 🦪I had some of them for lunch, they were pretty tasty with lots of mushrooms, sweet corn, onions, and of course zucchuni. Waited until after 7;30 to run to Price Chopper then wasted time by returning cans and catching the guy at the seafood counter first thing. 🐠 They hadn’t put out any yet but he got them out from the back.

Then I headed out to Mom and Dad’s house to feed the cat. 🙀 Then I headed out to Bear Swamp Preserve. 🐸 Usually it’s super swampy there but today wasn’t too bad because it’s been so dry. A few swampy places but it’s the first time I’ve ever done the loop trail in full, 🐛because not only is a lot of the trail overgrown and hard to follow, but also the beavers did so much damage to what was once the farthest north wild growth of Rhododendrons. 🪷 The beavers with their flooding and deer 🦌 took them all out and turned what was once a large Woody Marsh once famous for it’s Rhoddendrons into a fairly ordinary swamp.

Things are super dry and windy at Rensselearville State Forest. 🌲 Unless that wind dies down there is no way in hell I’m having a fire. 🔥 The grass is dry and it’s windy. really the drought is much worse here then Albany or where I was in Vermont. I don’t mind not having a fire, it wasn’t a bad thing to stay home last night, 🌃 despite being a beautiful evening. I got an early start today, and did my laundry and got enough groceries to start out next week.

Rolling the bike out to my truck this morning, 🚲 as I was packing for camp I discovered my tire was completely flat. When I got up to camp I discovered the wheel was well out of true. I tried re-inflating the tube, hoping the fix-a-flat would work. 🛠️ Then I patching the tube but it wouldn’t hold air so I got the extra I carry on me out. ⚱️ Probably the patch and rubber cement needs to dry. I also trued up the wheel with my spoke key so I’m good to ride in a bit. But first those clams, and maybe a quick toke on that recommended stuff from Northern Lights. 😁