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 I ate ice cream for dinner

that was a mistake

I need to leave around noon today because there's a storm rolling through this afternoon. ugh

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 I accidentally left my rice in PA at my parents
 
whoops

I think I have pasta......................................................

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 I'm exhausted 

stayed up super late last night chatting with mom. went to sleep at midnight, got up at 6 like normal on the weekend. 

split wood for a few hours, packed apparently not well and drove back. watched three hockey games, all very intense (RPI lost the last game so hard. I had a feeling they would. they put up a very good fight)

as it turns out, my arms are sore from splitting wood. since this is going for sap boiling, it has to be split very small since the small stuff burns faster and hotter. it ideally is the size of my wrist in diameter. making big logs into tiny logs takes a lot more arm work than normal splitting and I disocvered that my arms were sore when I was driving and finally left the road I spent 2.5 hours going 70 on, and I realized it because when I shift into second gear, all the muscles in my arm and shoulder are aligned just so to make every sore muscle move. 

I'm tired as hell and I promised the family that I would play dnd tonight so that is going to start at 8:30

kinda ugh to be honest. I'm not super hungry but I know I need to eat something other than ice cream so I might just eat some yogurt and granola. 

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I'm still taking that online photo course from forever ago and I relearned about shutter speed and exposure and all that jazz, or I started to.

So my cell phone has an pro option setting where I can adjust all that stuff. I still don't know what some of it is but I was messing around with the shutter settings a bit on the farm.

I took this picture of the sap house boiling yesterday. It was around dusk and all I did was a shorter shutter speed. It looks really good and I was super pleased with how it turned out. The shutter speed was the only thing I changed, no editing.

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I always take pictures of the mountain and they never turn out as impressive as they look. I did mess with the contrast on this one because it was all very grey on grey until I did that. But I was pleased with it. The fog was really cool. It's not quite what I'm looking for but definitely looks better in a larger picture which you can look at on my flickr. 



I've been having fun with it. Plus the normal number of dog photos and stuff, which I'm going to post on instagram shortly.