As soon as I got to camp ⛺ I was promptly greeted by the swarms of black flies 🐜 but I’m not at all surprised as it’s the weekend before Memorial Day Weekend 🇺🇸 and it’s been a wet spring. 🌸 That said I’m glad I’m up at camp and by eight o’clock the black flies were done.

It was a nice drive out here 🚚🚗🚛🚗🚙🚓🛻 bar of course the traffic jam on the Thruway between Albany and Schenectady. Once I got to Interstate 88 and past the one lane bridge 🌉 construction 🚧 it was a nice drive. Got off at NY 145 Exit which I’ve never done before but it bypasses the hick towns of Schoharie, Cobelskill and Middleburgh. 🐮 55 mph all the way to Fultonham. I was at Duck 🦆 Pond before 6:30. I get so much of an earlier start from my new office with its acres of parking 🅿.

I had a big fire 🔥 last night with the burn ban over, lots of wrappers to burn and a good wood supply. 🪵 Plus I’m really out in the middle of nowhere and nobody cares. 😳 And it was such a great moon lit night. 🎑 I stayed up until midnight, reading 📖 a book about how the Amish live without electricity. 🧑‍🌾 Laid back in the hammock looked up at the stars ✨ and then sat by the fire around midnight when it started to get a bit cool.