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Usually that’s a sign that the forecast is terrible wrong, but whatever, I’ll bus it work and maybe catch the earlier local home if luck would have it. Probably but it’s a buck thirty and a dream as they say.

Apple pancakes 🥞 for breakfast today. Good, I thought about shredding some zucchini to put in the mix but I am still missing my grater, which I think is hiding out somewhere ein my truck. I really should find it before vacation as I don’t think I’ll be bringing my food processor on vacation.

Last night it was out to Five Rivers 🌸 to check out the wildflower gardens and poke around until dusk, though I left a bit earlier as my phone battery was almost dead, 🪫 and it’s like well I should get home relatively early and get some sleep. 🛏️ I stay up too late during these summer days but still wake up when the sun rises. I don’t know how dairy men do it.

The wildflowers 🌼 were great, quiet but pretty night at Five Rivers. Tonight rain, and tomorrow I think I have another public meeting about yet another development in the Albany Pine Bush. 🦋 I think when I own land, I’ll plant lots of wildflowers between the hog and goat pens, 🐐 around the trash burning barrel 🛢️ and edges of pastures. 🐑 Something needs to absorb up those chemicals from the burnt plastic. 💀 I was reading another article about how black loctus tree while both a nuisance are still a very valuable wood both for firewood and fence post, and even commercially. 🪓 There’s a reason why farmers brought them all over the northeast, even if they do take over pastures if not maintained. I know from parents place.

I noticed that the starting Battery Gauge 🪫is reading super high again on my truck. I think there is an issue with the ground to the frame and how I’m reading the starting voltage from the neutral rail which is a different potential. I need to research it further but I’m guessing the frame ground is the problem. I want to get it fixed before vacation as it’s kind of important to know the status of the starting battery and because a bad connection means a risk of fire. 🔥

I think today I will commit to the Vacation Plans, taking off Friday this week then next Thursday heading out to the Finger Lakes until August 9th. 🩴  ⛱️  Figuring it best to get out before the oil markets blow up further ⛽ keeping my fuel tank full as much as possible. I look forward to how much better the SuperDuty will be on the hills. I was looking at that crack and hole where the wall shifted in my apartment this morning and was thinking it best to get that filled and plastered over before the cold of winter, especially with energy prices expected to be mad high. Even if I keep my heat at 48 degrees most of the winter.

Well, I need to get going because of the bus, 🚌 as unlike biking to work I don’t have unlimited options on when I exactly leave, because the bus has a pretty strict schedule. Probably wear jeans 👖 today for the first time in quite a while to work, because of rain expected. With a rain coat. Hopefully it won’t be a real soaker catching the bus 🚏 in the evening.