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a better path to the Gullies Trail
Tuesday, January 13 2026
I went out again this morning with the big eighteen inch Kobalt chainsaw with the idea of processing raw trees into something I could carry home in a backpac. But then I got distracted by the rudimentary passage I'd made down the "ramp" near the beginning of the Gullies Trail. I wanted the path past the fallen red oak to be a bit wider, and I also wanted to clear the obstruction that same tree had made to the the path down to the trail that ultimately ends on Dug Hill Road near the old bus turnaround. So I spent considerable energy cutting limbs off that red oak as well as the trunks of other, smaller trees it had knocked down when it had fallen. I also made sure not to block the new path that Crazy Dave takes to get up to the Stick Trail, as it's possible that (due to his various psychological issues) he might not want to go back to the path that I just reopened.
While I was out there with the chainsaw, I also cut up some other fallen trees so that I would have something to gather when I came back again with the backpack. But by that point I was feeling weak and cranky from all the calories I'd just expended without having eaten much of a breakfast.
Back at the house, Gretchen had returned from her noon pilates class in Glenford and I was so weak I could barely talk to her. I proceeded to devour the last of last week's cherry pie (the one from Adam's Fairacre Farms) and then I felt better.
I ended up going out and retrieving a couple more backpack loads of firewood, including some of the wood I'd cut up earlier today.
Yesterday I'd asked ChatGPT how difficult it would be to make it so I could reflash my ESP8266 Remotes remotely. It turned out that most of the plumbing to do this already exists in the code already. All I have to do is integrate a command called ESPhttpUpdate.update() into my existing command framework, probably after implementing a few safety checks. So I began work on that this evening.
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