Sixty-three degrees at 10 o’clock on November 5th is pretty much unheard of in Albany but that is the current weather conditions. With a long sleeve shirt and vest on I was sweating on my evening walk. The low for tonight is only 55 degrees and tomorrow will be 72. The early September weather comes to an end tomorrow with rain showers. Seasonally cool but clear weather returns for the weekend. Good but seasonally cool weather through Wednesday.

Rain is expected for the day after Veterans Day through the following weekend – at least showers but normal November weather in the 40s and 50s will make such conditions not nice to be in the woods much less for hunting. I’m not happy about this as I wanted to take that part of the week off to visit Massena/Brasher Falls/Deer River area. I might leave this weekend but I’m hesitant to take any more personal time off after taking so much time off lately. I don’t know, I’ll think about it more first thing in the morning.

This weekend I’m seriously leaning towards a trip to White Rocks National Scenic Area near Manchester VT. Just a single night trip, do some shorter hikes in the daytime, wearing plenty of blaze orange for safety, even though it’s just bow season in VT. I really want to try out the heater before I head out on an extended trip.

Did my evening walk, got the wash done, had dinner bought supplies. The ammo I wanted was overpriced and locked away with no clerk to be found at Walmart so I’ll just stop at Dick’s and pick it up later. It’s stupid you can’t just handle shotgun shells at Walmart like you can at most normal Sporting Goods Stores or Walmart in Pennsylvania. Deer slugs and small game shells don’t seem to be high theft items by ghetto criminals. Decided to lay in my bed as I’m tired but really it’s a pleasant evening outside.