Good evening. Currently 29 degrees and partly clear. As the evening has progressed, there is more stars you can see. When I went for a walk in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve around 8 PM it was mostly cloudy.

Gradual clearing through the night and slight warm up. Tomorrow will be partly sunny and 49 degrees which is pretty darn nice for December. The low for Wednesday night heading into Thursday is only 41 degrees. Sunrise at 7:21 AM.

Cleaned the mildew off a few more panels in my crappy apartment as part of my effort to slowly but surely make this cheap apartment in the suburbs not so nasty. I bought rubber gloves which means that I can remove the mildew without removing so much skin from my hands using the mildew remover. The gloves are tight on my hands but they keep them from stinking like bleach or mildew remover. I’m making good progress, but it’s a tedious job as I have never done a full scrub of the walls for mildew or even dust and dirt since moving in here eight years ago. The walls come out such a nice white when cleaned.

Besides a short evening hike up Overlook Dune, I did my evening walk. Certainly a pretty pleasant evening outside for mid-December. I’m not complaining about the warm weather although I wish the days were longer.

Tried on the Carhartt jackets at the Carhartt store at the Maul. I discovered that I fit nicely in a 2XLT. I’m a big boy. Still chewing over color but I found a store online with free shipping, good prices, and no sales tax. I still don’t like how they are no longer union made and some of the design changes make it seem lower quality then the previous models.

Dick’s didn’t have the propane adapter I needed for the lantern but I studied what they had at Walmart and figured what I need to order online – basically a high pressure ‘y’  connector. Walmart has the step down adapters. I think I will order it tomorrow.

I don’t envision heading out of town this weekend as the past four weekends I’ve taken trips, and really have stuff I need to do in town. The forecast is warm but cloudy for the weekend. Then again, I might change my mind as I want to do as much roadside camping before the snow ends that. But then again with the heated tent I probably will camp all winter. The following week I have to stay in town to lead the Save the Pine Bush Hike. So we will see.

It’s late. I need to get some sleep!