Good evening. A combination of laziness, forgetfulness, and the crazy weekend camping left me without posting many pictures or updates. So here we go.

Currently 27 degrees with light freezing fog. The fog is pretty heavy in the valley but lighter than before. It’s cold enough that some bridge surfaces and other locations are starting to ice up. So be careful out there. In the mountains it’s clear and a few degrees warmer due to the temperature inversion impacting the Albany-area and surrounding deep valleys. Might drop a few more degrees by morning.

Tomorrow morning the sun will rise at 7:10 AM, that is if you’re at an elevation where you can see it. Widespread dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 47. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Nice day on tap.

This weekend I went out to Cherry Ridge Camping Area at Charles Baker State Forest. It was a nice weekend but cooler and cloudier then expected. Spent some time in the woods hunting, drove down to Sherburne for a short walk at the Rogers Environmental Education Center and to pick up flashlight batteries as the stupid flashlight accidentally turned on again rolling around in the back of my pickup. Now I always take the batteries out of the flashlight.

Friday night was cold and damp on the woods, at least until I got a fire going and the big buddy heater keeping my butt warm. Hot tented on Friday night. Delightful as always but the gray skies of Saturday disappointed. Ran out of propane on Saturday evening, so while Saturday night was clear and relatively warm, and ice fog and no heat made the evening chilly. I guess I should have just put more layers on. Campfire helped but a lot of the wood I gathered in the woods was wet and slow burning. Slept in the truck cap on Saturday. I wish I had my comforter for extra warmth, but I still liked camping in the truck for the various comfort over an unheated tent.

Came back midmorning on Sunday. I should have headed back out in the field with my gun but so be it, I was cold being under dressed and with no heater to warm up by. Hunting was nice at Charles Baker, fewer hunters on this public land then one would expect. Drove through Unadilla Forks but didn’t see the famous dirt track.

When I got home, I continued on my new found obsession with cleaning quite successfully the mildew in the kitchen and bathroom. I hate the stink and irritation on my hands from the mold remover, but carefully sprayed on, it has proven quite effective at restoring bright white mold free surfaces. I bought gloves to help protect my skin going forward. If I’m not moving out soon, I really need to get the mildew problem under control because at times, especially in the winter it can be quite irritating. It’s part of living in a dirt cheap apartment. I want to buy a small house I can fix up myself without dealing with the landlord and build equity towards a nicer place on land in the country, hopefully off-grid where I can burn my trash and shoot fun but ever so NY illegal guns like AR-15s but right now it’s tricky with all the time I travel for work. I do like the convenience of public transit in the city. I make good money which pays for my road trips now. Some day though I’ll move to a free state .

Driving out to Mom and Dad’s for Sunday dinner, the fog was intense. You struggled to see the stoplights and car taillights. But once you got past Feura Bush and put off the valley, it was a clear evening. As I got some Windex and cleaned my windshield inside I didn’t have the glare problems I normally have at night. I’ve never cleaned my windshield inside since buying my truck and with all the dirt roads I drive on in the summer it really needed a good cleaning.