That was my reaction setting up camp at House Pond Campsite. Plus the fire pit was a mess – somebody tried to burn an old laptop or a flat screen television there and didn’t clean up the detritus. The whole fire pit was overly full of ash. Cleaned it up!
Hot and buggy setting up camp. ⛺ As usually is the case got better as the night progressed and the temperature and humidity dropped. The number of deer flies and now quickly my body got covered with welts from the bites wasn’t fun. 🦶Particularly how the deer flies kept biting my pinky toe through the hammock screen.
As evening approached, things got better 🪰with fewer deer fly and I went for a swim in the swimming hole next to the House Pond Campsite. Discovered another hole in the tube ⭕ while inflating it, patched it this morning. Had a small fire 🔥 to burn off the camp trash and other burnable deteris I found around the campsite. Really still too hot for a fire – didn’t bother the previous night but my trash bucket was full of paper plates and other burnables. I now use regular silverware – same I use at home because the plastic got expensive and it seems like such a waste to use them once and toss in the fire.
Yesterday I swam and laid on the beach 🏖 at Lake Pleasant at noon time. The morning was quite pleasant but like most of the trip with the humidity and heat came the haze then the clouds. But no rain 🌥️as was threatened. I am surprised how low the East Canada Creek is today. That said the road is in good shape having been a wet spring and not washboarded but I’m sure a lot is due to the town highway departments and the DEC.
This morning it was carrot 🥕 pancakes. The mini food processor works great on the inverter for grinding the carrots, flax seed and oatmeal. Good hardy breakfast 🥞, which I topped with sugar free maple 🍁 syrup. I prefer the real stuff but I’ve noticed I have less gum inflammation when I stay away from the sugar though especially with meals with beans 🫘 can make me kind of gassy. 😲
and now I at the library for a bit looking at the internet stuff, and wrapping up any loose ends before heading down to Piseco-Powley when I’m off the cellphone network. 
I kind of want to get down to the Potholers as soon as possible — certainly early enough to set up camp, and swim before dark. 
But also there is a farmers market in town at 2 PM that I want to hit up first and also get some ice 
and banana’s 
at Charlie John’s before retreating to the wilderness for the balance of the weekend. Work stuff has quieted down, all the important things that needed to get done before the weekend seems to be done. 
Downloaded a bunch of books onto the Libby app, also should look to see if there is anything I want from Hoopla, along with any podcasts.