 This is less exciting than I was expecting. I suppose it's at least passing the time a little quicker. Must be duck hunting season. Since the shots I keep hearing are coming from over the lake, I don't remember when duck hunting season closes. It gets shut down to public access during hunting season. I have many hazelnut orchards. I don't think this one's still being maintained or harvested at all, but I'm not sure. This guy gets over it because it's a narrow shoulder. As much as I would have liked, but they at least gave me some room. It's a real shame. 10 or 15 years ago, wait for this car to pass. 10 or 15 years ago, I couldn't have walked more than a mile without having someone stopping off on me a ride. But pretty much all the old farms have been sold to developers and wealthy people from out of state. And not one of them will stop not for a ride. This place has really changed. Not that I'm looking for a ride. It's just the fact that no one will stop anymore. It's like pulling teeth just to get people to move over and give you space on the shoulder. Before that was just a given. People understood how to drive on country roads. There's just no community anymore. It's every man for himself. It's a real shame that that's what this country has come to. Let me meet nice enough people. I did have a chat with an older lady on my return trip last time, the time before, asking what I was out doing. She was very impressed with the kind of mileage I was putting on my feet. Cyclists tend to be friendly enough. Wait for this car and this car. Cyclists are friendly enough when you bump into them but few and far between and they're getting to their own places. So it's not like they're stopping to chat. It's a lot weirder when there are people out and I'm streaming. I don't want to be talking to myself or people looking at the weirdo walking into town. Are you home or are you lost? It was weird just a bulldog hanging out in that yard. No fence, no tie out. No people around. Most country dogs a lot. Pretty territorial if you walk by their property. So I'm wondering if that dog was lost. I guess we'll see if it's still around on my return trip. Sure it belongs around here somewhere. Certainly didn't take any interest in me. The USB port on my phone is getting worn out. So the cable isn't at the perfect angle. It stops charging. I have this electric hand warmer that I skipped a trial on my friend. The devil's us a power bank. Otherwise I would not be streaming right now because I don't want to run down my battery on my phone. And we're just getting into a situation where I actually need a phone. I don't want my battery to be dead. But as long as the power bank has a charge on it, I'll keep streaming. At least talking to screen. It's like having company, right? I think that's what most of us have anymore. This is good practice for talking out of screen since I didn't do much of that this year. Mostly film stuff that looked interesting. I just did voiceover. During the season I just did not have the time or energy to figure out something intelligent to say and film at the same time. And get all the garden work done. Maybe a couple miles left. I'll be up at the highway. From there I have options. I didn't really have a plan for today. Notice that there wasn't rain in the forecast. At least not until later today. I wanted to take the opportunity to get out. Pretend to enjoy civilization for a little bit. Mostly just have some kind of human interaction. Since I don't get that out at the farm. Makes the holidays rough. I'll tell you that. But this year went a lot better than last year. As so far we'll see what happens as we work in the spring. No idea how the audio is holding up. Even when there aren't cars passing. I thought about packing the mount and my shotgun mic. There's just too much bulk. I didn't want to bring a bag with me. Weird enough to be the guy walking in a town talking to his phone without having a bunch of gear hooked up to it. So hopefully any of this is listenable. I guess I won't know until I stop and go back and re-watch parts of it. I was worried the fog was going to be thicker. It was pretty bad when I was first leaving. Bad enough sharing the road with drivers. When they can actually see you. I was worried I was going to spend my whole walk jumping into ditches to avoid oncoming traffic. But it's also late enough in the day that most of the commuter traffic is already gone for the day. I guess since nobody showed up to watch this. Maybe it's like a free therapy session right? Me talking into the void. Sure why not let's do that. Bad little duckies. Yeah another car. I guess I'll wait to show that. I guess this is how I'm spending my winters now. I'm glad I'm in good enough shape that I can do this walk on the regular. Because last year when I tried to cover this mileage it absolutely wrecked me. I don't think I can move for three days afterwards. This year I'm doing it weekly or so. I'm hoping that'll help keep me in shape for the gardening season. That's the worst part. Spring rolls around and even cooped up inside all winter not doing much. Another car. You build up all this muscle over the gardening season. And then it all atrophies over the winter. You start back a square one in the spring. The first month or two of hard garden work is pretty tough after. You've just been sitting around for the winter waiting for spring to come again. I haven't been doing static squats this winter. Last winter I did and that helped a lot. Another car. Having the quad strength and the dorsal flexion. And the ankle mobility. Being able to get down low and stay there is huge. When it comes to garden season I was worried that it wasn't really going to hold over the winter last year. But I didn't do too bad. I think I got to the point where I was holding like an 11 minute static squat. But you would never do in a garden because you squat down, you do something, then you move to the next spot. But being able to hold an 11 minute static squat is huge for comfort and mobility when you're doing everything by hand and down near the ground a lot. I mean part of that is being having been such a big guy. Getting up and down off your knees is brutal. It's way easier if you can actually hold a squat and hold it. I'm almost where the people are. Smell the fresh cow manure. I haven't grown up around dairies. I don't find it unpleasant although I also have a very weak sense of smell. But I don't find it unpleasant. The dairies themselves are gross but the manure is whatever. I know somebody from out of state moved across from the dairy on the other side of the valley and sued them out of existence because they didn't want to smell it. Neither dairy was there when you bought the place. Would you buy it? That's the way things are anymore. Not that I'm jumping to defend the dairy. It was tough seeing just the rows and rows of veal calves lined up for slaughter being restrained so that they can't toughen up their muscle. But there's got to be a better way to have that conversation than suing a hundred plus year. Business out of existence. Again, community. Are we going to work with each other or against each other? It seems people are choosing to work against each other. All right, I'm getting to the point where it's going to be weird if I keep talking at my phone so I'm going to get off of here. It was a pleasure talking to no one. I will catch you on the flip side.