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August 2024 01: just keeps adding dragons
- Watching House of the Dragon alone in Hurley while recovering files from a failing media drive.
02: leaving for the cabin on the dogs' schedule
- At least it gave our car enough time to charge.
03: drftwood tree dock
- Dragging a fairly large tree trunk out of the middle of a bay to shore so I can have a better place to disembark from watercraft.
04: osprey with a fish
- While watching a loon on Woodworth Lake, an unexpected bird of prey makes an appearance.
05: first spotted lanternfly
- Yet another Asian exotic and dinner in Woodstock.
06: chanterelles with torchietti
- Delicious foraged mushrooms with pasta and a templating mechanism for my remote control system.
07: homemade pizza and a movie about Tonya Harding
- Nasoya tofu really is pretty bad, bu the pizza was good.
08: post-covid return to Tubby's
- We hadn't seen a band there since 2019.
09: a party despite the hurricane remnants
- But I don't know many of the people there and feel awkward.
10: Guided by Voices at the Bearsville Theatre
- It sounded like one of their instruments might be a buzzsaw.
11: the long way to Lorenz Road
- We show some neighbors how to walk through the forest between our houses.
12: Charlotte not too mopey
- Gretchen takes Neville to work and Charlotte processes it better because she sees him leave.
13: trail de-poison-ivyification
- I bring a long pair of needle-nosed pliers on a walk down the Stick Trail.
14: crumbling Electrify America
- There aren't enough fast chargers for the many additional electric cars people are now driving.
15: Ethiopians in Washington
- How did they end up there? And what are the Ethiopian men sipping coffee in the Ethiopian bakery up to?
16: learning about Glen Echo
- We see a documentary produced by someone we sort of know about something we had no knowledge of.
17: two bad Electrify America experiences in one day
- Their network is collapsing under the weight of way too many electric cars.
18: zeroth world problem
- Costco is great for stocking a second home.
19: necessary change in elevation
- I don't like small dips in a walkway.
20: crowbar stone extraction
- After removing large rocks from the new Mossy Rock Path with a crowbar, I fill the resulting craters with sand.
21: especially large lumber on the roof rack
- A young Home Depot employee in Amsterdam makes it possible to get twelve foot six by sixes up there.
22: boulder-studded woods
- Checking out the trackless wilderness north of the Lake Edward Trail. Also: telling ChatGPT the news.
23: rare Adirondack flagstones
- They're hard (but not impossible) to find.
24: Transvirginia
- I cross Virginia Creek and see what lies in the unbounded wilderness beyond it. Also, removing tiny stumps from the Mossy Rock Trail.
25: a fog of little cubes
- Getting vegan pizza with our actress neighbor and her boyfriend.
26: bean stew
- Lots of mosquitoes and tomatoes.
27: a chemical smell that I would rather not have
- I can't take a mental-health walk in the forest because of the mosquitoes.
28: a husk of phoebe hatchlings
- Looking up at a nest while waiting for the glass guy to arrive.
29: cedar outlasting steel
- In direct contact with the ground, the latter was more rotten.
30: two Midwestern goodbyes
- Two social calls before driving up to the Adirondack cabin.
31: first Github contribution to a stranger
- After solving the FM radio reception problem in the Bolt, I contribute to an online repository of Bolt information.
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