Good morning, Happy Friday as we head into the Juneteenth Weekend, that I decided to get a jump start on. Yesterday was quite beautiful out for a while but fairly cool, though I enjoyed swimming and floating in the tube on the East Canada Creek. Hiked up to the Potholers in the evening and sat down there for a while.

Expecting rain today ☔ but I have tarps set up and brought my heater and rain coat and plan to do some reading 📖 this afternoon. Chopped up enough firewood for tonight and Saturday night so I’m case everything gets soaked from the rsum.

This morning though I’ll hike Old Edick Road, check out the swimming 🏊 hole along the way though no swimming but maybe later today depending on how cool it is.

Repatched the tube ⭕ that I patched last year after snagging a tree, I the new patch is holding better after I applied extra rubber cement. I also got a new air pump as the old one wasn’t working well but boy oh boy did it make a lot of black smoke when I tossed it in the fire 🔥 last night lol.

Campstove is working good 🍲 though I’m down to one burner as the other rotted out again. Not leaking propane like it often does. Got 7 summers and roughly 500 meals out of it but I think winter and rainy day camping was tough on it plus the heat from the camp oven and letting pots boil over on it. I was looking at getting another stove using gift cards from work I had saved up but I was worried it would arrive when I was camping then get rained on or grabbed by the porch pirates. I’m thinking about getting a stand alone unit so it can drain out better and not risk burning the table like in the past. I want to have a good stove, especially before Summer Vacation as I do a lot more cooking these days. 🏖️