As I don’t like wearing the muzzle

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As I don’t like wearing the muzzle… 😷

It’s kind of rare for me to go down to the library to work on my laptop but I did for 45 minutes or so this afternoon – I wanted to download some data plus I just wanted to get out of my apartment for a while this afternoon. It also was a chance to get a few more steps in.

If muzzles weren’t required I’d probably go to the library more but these days I find I can do most things with my phone – and I have hot spot service too. I probably could get home internet but it’s expensive, uses a lot of electricity and I like the walk. 

Snow Depth – Saturday November 20

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I was looking at the snow depth map, noting the snow that is on the ground in the hilltowns and Western Adirondacks downwind of Lake Ontario. Doesn’t look real deep and probably won’t last all winter long — until more falls, but it’s still a sign of what’s to come. You can see the snow in the Heldebergs and Catskills from my office window.
 

Route 89A

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Winds down into the valley towards Oak Creek Canyon. It's a crazy road.

Taken on Thursday November 13, 2008 at Sodona.

I haven’t hunted in two years now 🦌 

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I haven’t hunted in two years now 🦌 

For a while I got my hunting license every year and headed out to the field in search of small game. It’s kind of tough to do regularly as I live in the city and nearby public lands are a ways away and many of them have a lot of hunting pressure. I hate sitting out on a ridge and peering down onto another ridge and seeing another hunter with his or her gun. Before and after deer season, it’s not so bad, but still obnoxious.

I know the big treasure is a big buck or a turkey in their respective seasons. But I have no place to hang or quarter a deer where I live plus my freezer is pretty small in my apartment. And what to do with the guts or entrails? I don’t have trash service and I would hate to put good organic material like that in the landfill.

I’d be better if I spent more time in the field. Podcasts and videos are great but they could only teach you so much. I probably would benefit from using a guide service. But it’s kind of hard not being a landowner and living in the city. Sure I don’t mind nights in the woods this time of year but even thru don’t happen all that often. Maybe when I own my own land.

The House of Documents

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The House of Documents

7/14/21 by Parsons Healthy Materials Lab

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125818012
Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/695296/8856974-the-house-of-documents.mp3

In the 1970s, workers in PVC factories across the country began getting sick with a rare form of liver cancer. While the plastics industry claimed they were unaware of what was causing that cancer, internal documents told a different story. Today we’re telling a story about corporate concealment, cancer, and of course, plastic.