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a good job of hiding the stevia
Sunday, July 27 2025
location: 940 feet west of Woodworth Lake, Fulton County, NY
As expected, Gretchen and I got up rather late this morning. Our guest Greg was already up, drinking tea and reading a book out in the screened in porch in the rain (an excellent way to spend time in the Adirondacks, in my view), though his husband Z, who is a late riser, was still asleep. I made myself my usual french press of coffee and at some point Gretchen started heating up blueberry scones she'd made.
That was pretty much the extent of our breakfast before the rain quit and we decided to hike back down to the dock, though somewhere in there I made some critical bug fixes to my Moxee Hotspot reset code, making it so I can now remotely query the ESP8266 to see how long the WiFi has been up for.
This time we had the lake entirely to ourselves. Gretchen immediately jumped in for a big swim, so I took the canoe out for its first mission this season (to gather rocks from the lakeshore near the public dock) while Greg and Z took the kayaks out.
When we all returned to the dock, I added the rocks to the semi-collapsed "ice wall" that helps divide the winter ice at the place were the outermost poles support the dock. A little rain had fallen while we were out on the water, and it returned a few times while we were sitting on the dock. Gretchen and the guests were under the umbrella and were mostly shielded, but Charlotte and I kept getting rained on, and it was occasionally enough to be irritating. We had an occasionally chuckle-filled conversation as we, among other things, exchanged ideas for clever business names, such as my "Saree/Not Saree" women's clothing store and "Just for the Halibut," a seafood restaurant one of Greg's friends had come up with.
I was the one who initiated the return to the cabin, and by then it was too late for me to make my famous vegan BLTs, as originally planned, if Greg and Z were to make it to their next destination, Catskill, by 5:00pm. So we said our goodbyes, and I proceeded to make an amazing bagel for myself that included recently-harvested chanterelles, vegan bacon, vegan mayo, arugula, red onions, pickles, and tomatoes.
Meanwhile Gretchen had tried a low-calorie "pre-biotic" soft drink and decided it tasted disgusting, so she gave it to me. It has a strong cherry flavor that I like that did a good job of hiding the stevia it also contained. So I snuck off and added some gin and drank it for most of the rest of the time we were at the cabin.
We started driving back to Hurley at around 4:30pm and took the Thruway, because that's Gretchen's preferred route and we had 174 miles of range after three days of charging (in sometimes cloudy conditions).
Back in Hurley, there was a wren flying around in the house, having apparently come in beneath a mosquito net through an open door to the east deck. I saw evidence of things knocked down in the laboratory that only a bird could've done, suggesting the wren had been all over the house. Fortunately Gretchen was able to shoo the little bird back into the outdoors.
Gretchen jumped into the water soon after we arrived this morning. Click to enlarge.
A snail in the canoe as I was paddling around. Click to enlarge.
Greg and Z kayaking today. Click to enlarge.
Gretchen has named this lily pad flower near the dock "Candace." Click to enlarge.
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