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strong niacin and weak cannabis
Saturday, November 20 2021
location: 800 feet west of Woodworth Lake, Fulton County, NY
I was up a little before 8:00am this morning, and did the usual cabin morning routine (starting a fire, fixing myself coffee, eating something, feeding the dogs). My big task today was to finish grouting the wall tile in the first floor bathroom, but that's a messy, unpleasant job. So I procrastinated by assembling two pieces of furniture: that computer desk I'd picked up near the gate last night and a small bench for placement near the front door. The desk had all the hallmarks of something craptastic from Ikea. It had those the same knock-down fasteners and the "wood" was actually laminated particleboard (in this case the lamination featured imagery to fool you into thinking it had been made from salvaged barn siding). But the finished desk was surprisingly solid, since it was all held up by a metal framework.
It being a Saturday (or, really, any day that ends in "day"), Gretchen and I played the New York Times Spelling Bee, staying in communication via Facebook technology. Today's Spelling Bee had a ponderous arrangement of letters ("iotefgp," with "p" in the middle), and the panagram completely eluded us. [Later we would learn that it was "pettifog," a word I have never heard uttered or seen in print. I'm familiar with 99.5 percent of Spelling Bee words, especially the longer ones. But not this one (and not "tuti" either).]
Well before the sun started getting anywhere near the horizon, I mixed up some grout and finished the bathroom tiling project. While waiting to sponge it, I went out to the place where I've been clearing a view out to Lake Edward and tried out a new twenty foot telescoping ladder I'd brought on this trip. I'd seen a smaller version of this ladder advertised on scammer-friendly Facebook and, intrigued, had searched for it on scammer-less-friendly eBay. There I'd found the twenty foot version and bought it even though it cost nearly $200, thinking that such a big ladder that can fit inside a Chevy Bolt will have all kinds of uses. My use for it today was to cut off some of the higer limbs on beech tree that was blocking some of the view. It worked great in this application, though walking around in the snow in my Crocs soon had my feet uncomfortably cold. The Crocs have been great (if unfashionable) but I'm obviously going to need better footwear for cold weather in the Adirondacks.
After my feet were warm, I gathered some firewood, sponged down the grout, and then took the dogs for a very belated walk in the only place my Crocs would allow: the driveway out to Woodworth Lake. (It also seemed best to avoid the woods in hunting season.)
Over the course of the the day I made the mistake of eating nearly that entire $1 Italian bread, and I think there was enough niacin in it to give me a niacin flush (since I hadn't been exposed to anywhere near enough sun to get that red). Later, I made another food mistake: eating an entire frozen pizza after having eaten something else (including the leftover falafel and yet more of that Italian bread) not long before. I ended up going to sleep with a distended belly and acid reflux.
I've been eating the cannabis I grew this summer in hopes it would have some effect on me, but so far it's not been anywhere near as powerful as some several-year-old cannabis I'd been eating previously. I probably don't have the dosage right, but the stuff has such a strong flavor that I'm worried I will eat too much and completely lose my mind.
The cabin as it looked early this morning, viewed from the southeast. Click for a wider view.
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