Good evening. Happy Sunday evening. Back to work tomorrow for a nice long full week. Temperatures will be typical for the first week of December and even a bit above. As is common when it gets warm out in December, rain is expected for the mid part of the week.

Currently 33 degrees and partly clear this evening with a Waxing Gibbous Moon. The bright moonlight filtering through the clouds makes driving and walking easy this evening but keep your eyes out for some icy spots and deer on  the road.

Later tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Sunrise tomorrow at 7:03 AM. Tomorrow will be pretty seasonable and nice. Sunny, with a high near 40. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. Sunset at 4:23 PM for a total of 9 hours and 20 minutes of daylight.

I broke camp and returned home pretty early as I wanted to visit Tractor Supply Company to check out the Carhartt sale. I was disappointed that they didn’t have any of the classic Carhartt Duck Parkas in my size. It was the end of the sale. I should have gone on Black Friday. I went on Carhartt’s website and found they were out in my size except for the traditional tan color which I didn’t want because it shows mud and muck stains and a ugly blue color. I was also disappointed to see the new Duck Parkas were no longer union made in America. Now they are made in Bangladesh, probably by slave labor – and cost like $40 more than 7 years ago. Some of Carhartt’s products are still union made but not their parkas anymore. Sucks.

Unpacking this evening from camp, I snagged the thermostat on the wall of my apartment and ripped off the front of the old mercury thermostat in my apartment. It’s now in pieces on my counter. I was carrying the Mr.  Heater up the stairs and caught the sling on the thermostat while balancing the shotgun in the other hand. I got to call the landlord in the morning and ask for it to be fixed.

Also managed to rip the handle off the ever so rusty refrigerator in the kitchen. Fixed that myself with superglue and tape. That just cracked because it’s falling apart like most things in my cheap, rundown apartment in the suburbs. Some day I’ll buy land out in the country to live on, but for now I like my rundown apartment with the convenience of the bus and the good money I make at my job to buy toys. I don’t want to be tied down to New York forever with the super restrictive gun laws, the open burning ban, the overzealous animal rights folk, the wilderness and environmental jackasses and general indignities of being an upstater in a state which is for all practical purposes a colony of the metropolitan region. Hah! I think I’d probably miss the absurdity of it all if I moved away – I like sardonic humor.

In my general day of suck, I also bought the wrong connectors for the new propane lantern I bought for using of the same propane bottle as my camp heater. This way when winter camping I will have plenty of light without having to worry about running out of Coleman fuel or having to constantly pump up the lantern in the cold. I will order the proper “y” adapter online along with the connector from the high pressure to low pressure line. Oh, well.

All and all it was a nice weekend camping even if it was cold this morning and rainy and damp Friday evening through Saturday afternoon. Things went bad when I got back home but I had good weekend. My problems are minor and will get worked out next week.

Good night! Sleep well.