05/28/2026
It was a great day to mow. I just now realized that quite possibly my neighbors may not approve of a seven am mowing session. I know Julie gets up early for her walk. OD is already off to school and the Browns aren't up today, so I may have pulled it off without angering anyone.
This last week certainly greened up this hill. In one week the green came out to make it look like actual summer. The bugs are still out...and hungry. I'm not sure what's going on with the ticks but holy moley check yourself when you come in from outside...everywhere.
We have our summer shirts in for sale. My 90s spoof on Baywatch with our Brantingham Squatchwatch are my favorites. The neon blue, hot pink, day glow green, sunburst orange really pop. They really capture the retro look of the late 80's and early 90s. Retro look...80s and 90s...what the heck am I talking about... the second group of 2026 summer shirts celebrate 250 years of America being America. A stern Bigfoot sporting revolutionary war garb and a musket. The colors for those shirts are off white, brick red or faded denim blue...we have assorted trucker hats and a new supply of stickers.
I've been doing some health fads. Every morning I'm pounding down a ryze mushroom coffee. Just before the coffee I'm taking a shot of apple cider vinegar in a bit of water. Well, yesterday morning for some reason I forgot how to swallow while I was mid vinegar concoction. I gagged on the water and vinegar and they both shot out of my nose and mouth. I'm not sure but, I believe some of it wept out of the corners of my eyes. It has really loosened things up in my throat and sinuses. The spring pollen pollution is coming out very easily today. I may be onto something. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. After the initial burn and coughing fit trying to dispel the vinegar and water concoction the spring poison appears to be expelling itself without me really putting forth any effort at all. I can't really tell you how to do it if you want to try for yourself. I think you just add too much apple cider vinegar, with mother, to too little water, then choke on it unexpectedly... the rest will happen naturally. It really cuts through the seasonal pollen that turns to phlegm.
So now that you have that visual so early in the day, let me hit you up with the food specials...I guess the best way is if you just check out the pictures of the special boards.
The sun is back out. The birds are singing. I would prefer they shut up and just eat the bugs but, perhaps their song is telling the other birds, hey, theres a swarm of tasty little pests over here. My friend Kevin Ryan said he wants to start a possum farm up here to help with the ticks. Possums seem to be the biggest consumer of ticks we have. Maybe instead of data centers and solar farms NYState could open possum farms and help out the people that live up here however, Having lived up here forever I'm sure they would just have us raise the Possums then they would send them to New York City whether they were needed down there or not. Actually that's not a bad idea as possum are marsupials so the average city dweller could have a pet, a purse, and a tick eater all in one. Maybe possums could be retrained to eat bedbugs and cockroches as well...man, am I a problem solver or what.?
Tony Levesque will be here Friday night. The supergroup Where's Bella is back up high on Saturday. I try to hire the best bands three counties have to offer to entertain us every Friday and Saturday night.
I gotta go. There's stuff to make and food to order.
I love you all, mean it.
