April 16, 2016 Afternoon

Happy Saturday Afternoon! A nice one for sure, about 64 degrees with a northwest 7 mph. Feels pretty nice but it is dry outside, with a dew point of only 19 degrees and 18% relative humidity. While it’s been relatively wet earlier in the week, it is still kind of fire weather, although things have started to green up a bit in the city. Probably not a good day for backcountry camping, especially if I wasn’t planning on staying in a developed campsite. I could clear the leaves away from the fire pit I dug out, but that’s still always a bit scary.

Sunset this evening is in about 3 1/2 hours at 7:39 PM with darkness at 8:06 PM. Right now I’m down at the town park playing on my laptop, but later on I am probably going to go down to the river and do some fishing, then pick up some groceries. I also need to get some gas as my truck is pretty much empty. Then again, the last time I put gas in my truck was Good Friday, and only put in $30 into the tank, as I haven’t made many trips lately.

The 40 Karner Road Clean-Up Went Pretty Well. There was a ton of junk in that ravine, they only really got started despite having like 40 people working on hauling out junk — mostly scrap metal but some bottles too. I swear the pile of scrap metal reached 10 feet high and looked like a bonfire pile of wood, like you might see for a bonfire on a farm. Whoever dumped the junk back there, must have burned it up pretty well, as there was mostly just scrap metal, glass, and some tires — some partially burnt tires. Bet that smelled well. Those must have been some wild days in the bad old days of the Pine Bush in 1970s, although that area suffered from some pretty bad dumping before the area was built up in the mid-1970s. I’m just glad the parcel is forever preserved, and they are making process at cleaning it up. It will be nice once all the trash is gone, and the landscape is restored to natural status.

So I’m looking at the Camp Chef Everett stove now. I like how it’s small like the Coleman propane stoves that are common but puts out a lot of heat and adjusts down. I do have some concerns about the negative reviews and the “cheapness” of the cover. I’m still thinking though about stoves. It just has to be reliable, and easy to use, as I had fiddling with the white gas stoves on a cold morning, and knocking over a nearly done pot of coffee. I want to have a propane stove I can hook up for the 5-day trip I’m taking that last week of April.