Rain started around 6 o’clock ☔ when I was walking back from my hike to House Pond, which I bushwhacked along the Brandy Brook to the Old Edick Road snowmobile trail. While the bushwhack wasn’t difficult, the Brandy Brook is hardly even a brook and didn’t have any particularly interesting waterfalls. Mostly just very conventional low land Adirondack woods, not many old growth trees back there.

Read 📖 for a few hours in the hammock, mostly the book I got about bicycles 🚲 and their repair. I guess I’m learning something from the book, a lot of it is about the physics of bicycles and the chemistry of the metals used to make up their frames. I guess I never thought how scientific bicycles are.

I was going to swim 🏊‍♂️ this afternoon, or more likely float in the tube ⭕ and fir a short while the sun came out and was quite delightful but then more clouds 🌥️ pushed in, the wind picked up and my mind was changed.

Black flies were horrendous and I was quite happy to hide out under the bug net I use with my hammock. 🐜 It works good but it does feel kind of claustrophobic when your surrounded by such a little screen. Basically when I wasn’t under the bug screen in the hammock I was in the screen tent 🎪 or applying DEET although out hiking wasn’t so bad.

Then laying back in the hammock🤦 I turned left and somehow pulled a muscle in my neck and now hurts when I turn too far to the left, especially if I am looking left and up. It just hurts hard when I do that. 🥲Looking right or turning my neck the other way is fine but I’m thinking if I don’t recover it’s going to make merging on the expressway a challenge though I think I can do like I did coming out here and take the local roads home. I’m sure I’ll recover fine on my own or I’ll be calling my new doctor 📞 come Tuesday. 🧑‍⚕️