I like thinking about the future. Few confirm I am prescient, most contending I am no better, nor worse, than anyone else at prophesy. My prognostications are, basically, for fun. Of course, there is always a level of thinking about the future that is serious, that helps us be prepared, that aids in survival. Here is my mix of thoughts on the year 2022:

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second will end.

• President Biden will fall down and hit his head.

• The stock market will see one 15% correction, plus two 5% corrections, yet end the year up 8%.

• The number of daily news reports on the Coronavirus will be cut in half by April.

• Weather events will appear to stabilize but this will prove to be just that, a short cycle of normalcy, a wobble, in a tightening out-of-control spiral of cataclysmic events.

• My garlic crop will outperform last year’s crop even though I planted fewer. I will have more time to check weeds and fertilizer needs.

• My honey production numbers will double.

• It’s going to be a great year for tomatoes and kale.

• I will get the plastic on my greenhouse.

• My lawnmower will die.

• A large meteor will hit Earth -- fortunately not large enough to create an extinction event, yet large enough to cause considerable consternation and handwringing. “Where IS God?”

• The Thirty-Year Satellite War will begin.

• The Chinese will build a permanent colony on the Moon.

• Japan will increase its defense budget by 30%.

• War in the South China Sea will be averted.

• We will begin to notice Ford’s electric F-150’s on our local roads.

• All new gas stations will be equipped with electric charging stations.

• It will become clear to some that the Town of Montgomery’s new zoning laws will spell withering doom for the town’s remaining rural appeal.

• A single town-wide police force encompassing the villages and the town will continue to be resisted by special interests.

• Another major local farm, or orchard, will cease operations.

• One-third of America will continue to believe Trump is president.

• North America’s bird and insect populations will noticeably decline at alarming rates.

• The State of New York’s Department of Transportation will continue to spray hundreds of tons of three combined herbicides along every upstate roadway, spraying the bases of all guardrails above every stream culvert and around the foot of every telephone pole, statewide.

• Although white-tailed deer will die in large numbers from numerous illnesses, including chronic wasting disease and Corona, their population will remain overextended for local habitats.

• Black bears will be witnessed everywhere.

• City Winery will apply for a building permit.

• I will get the plastic on my Gothic high-tunnel greenhouse.

• Someone in Orange County will think they have spotted a mountain lion.

• A whale will swim up the Hudson.

• The Yankees go nowhere; the Mets go nowhere; the Jets go nowhere; the Giants go nowhere; the Knicks go nowhere; etc., etc.

• Amazon Prime delivery trucks will get stuck in your front yard.

• An intense fire will burn a section of Interstate 84.

• A movement to outlaw the use of wood as fuel for heating homes will be met with derision and organized opposition.

• The Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade.

• The Supreme Court will declare Social Security unconstitutional.

• The Supreme Court will end the separation of church and state and allow the spending of property tax school dollars on the teaching of religious doctrine.

• The Supreme Court will rule you have the right to own surface-to-air missiles.

• The Supreme Court will rule state legislatures can overrule any election they declare tainted and install their own slates of electors or winners.

• Trump will settle out of court regarding the New York State Attorney General’s impending case for shady business practices.

• Trump will be indicted by the Justice Department for conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election, specifically in the State of Georgia.