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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. 🍂 Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Tinker Falls

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There was a lot of water going over Tinker Falls this time.

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation – Home Sweet Home – Elk Return to West Virigina

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"West Virginia is known by many as the Mountain State. But for more than a century, those mountains lacked one of its long-time residents—the wild, free-ranging elk. Now, thanks to the efforts of cooperating state wildlife agencies, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its fired-up volunteers, elk are back the ground on their historic West Virginia range. The latest group to arrive made it thanks to a cross-country trek and a pay-it-forward attitude from a fellow elk state some 1,000 miles away."

Drinking olive oil before bed 🫒

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Apparently it’s a thing. Like many things.

I guess some Italians and other health buffs like to end their evening with a shot of olive oil, because the fat helps smooth absorption of food in one’s stomach and keeps people full throughout the night. Seems kind of silly to me, but I’m getting fed a lot of targeted ads because I made the mistake of investigating fad-diet-marketers Mr. Gundry’s jacked up price olive oil, that is supposed to be low on lectins, which some people believe are super harmful. Because eating too many tomatoes is like eating too many twinkies.

I am not against olive oil, and indeed it’s my go-to fat for use in frying many things up. But I would hardly call it a health food, even if it’s one of the healthiest fats you can cook with and you need some fats in your diet. But drinking it raw, doesn’t seem all that appealing in the grand scheme of things.