Good morning! Happy August. 🏖

Day four of summer vacation. Cool start to the morning with the breeze but it should warm up later on.

Mostly sunny and 62 degrees at the Finger Lakes National Forest. There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 61 degrees.

The coffee ☕ is percolating, birds 🐦 chirping and cows 🐮 are mooing with a gentle breeze this morning. 🌅 Going to be pretty hot later on – I need to finish up some work stuff down at the Watkins Glen library at 11 then I’ll probably do a hike and swim 🏊‍♂️ and hang out the Watkins Glen Park until 6 pm, get some ice cream 🍦and return to camp. ⛺

As planned, yesterday was a pretty quiet day 😴 with a lot of hammock time, some fishing 🎣, reading 📖 and a hike up to the top of Hector Backbone. By afternoon it was hot, muggy with that gray glare that often dominates on those not super nice sultry summer days. 💻 Also spent a few hours doing work things on my laptop and sat and watched it get dark by Foster Pond.

While gas prices are my excuse, taking every other day or so to do things around camp ⛺ just makes vacation less hectic. I have plenty of battery 🔋 bank and solar to work such schedule and it saves on having to spend so much time moving things around in the truck. That said, two days is about the maximum I can expect for the ice at camp.

I need to get ice and milk 🥛 this morning and then I will head down to the Watkins Glen library to work. Such a nice morning so I want to maximize it. But first I should get some firewood as I think I want to have a fire 🔥 this evening after star gazing at Foster Pond. ✨

I think Wednesday I will hike Enfield Glen and swim 🏊‍♂️ there. I have a 9:30 work call I need to do in the morning but after that I should have the rest of the day. Assuming Enfield Glen swimming is open, which I’ll have to check in advance as it often closes due to turbidity and other water quality issues.