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annoying fly season
Friday, April 26 2024
location: rural Hurley Township, Ulster County, NY
Gretchen and I had an abbreviated weekend-style morning in the living room with coffee and Spelling Bee, though she kept being interrupted by demands from her volunteer gig as a case manager for the New York Abortion Access Fund (for which she'd been working all this week coordinating abortions for people outside the state). After Gretchen took Charlotte for a walk, I loaded the dogs into the Chevy Bolt and headed to the Adirondack cabin for the weekend. I stopped at the Cairo Hannaford for provisions on the way (as I usually do) and was delighted to find that they still had Passover matzah in stock, so I bought three big boxes of Streit's. (It's telling that I also bought a loaf of sourdough bread, but I would eventually put it in the freezer, since I never actually ate any.)
When I arrived at the cabin, temperatures were in the 50s inside and out. I wasn't there long before deciding to take the dogs for a walk down the nascent Lake Edward trail. We ended up walking all the way to Lake Edward and back. Conditions would've been very pleasant, but there's a species of irritating fly that has emerged. These flies form annoying swarms in front of one's face; perhaps they're of the same species that does this in Hurley every year starting some time in May. If you keep moving, such flies are less of a problem. But when one stops to do things like articulate a trail, they accumulate rapidly. While down at Lake Edward, I could hear loons off in the distance as well as what sounded like Canada geese.
Back at the cabin, I ate some cannabis and did a fair amount of drinking while not doing very much in the way of productive work. Eventually I took a bath.
Looking across Lake Edward from the middle of its wild southeast shore towards its more suburban northwest shore.
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Charlotte along the Lake Edward shore. This was her first visit to it.
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A big boulder about 1200 feet east of the Lake Edward shoreline. That layer line going through the rock is visible on many other boulders and I wonder if it's often the same layer in the rock everywhere.
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