Campfire breakfast it was. I probably would have skipped the hot breakfast all together had my coffee and eggs not been mostly already cooked to start out. Campfire breakfasts are good and it’s been 11 nights camping since I filled my tank prior to Juneteeth weekend.

Eggs, coffee, fried onion, zucchini,  mushrooms and sweet corn for breakfast. 🍳 Good stuff as was the coffee ☕ this morning. No campfire 🔥 last night but I did gather some sticks and have a little fire this morning. I’m in no rush to take down camp 🏕 though I probably should be as I want to have time to hit up Shauls again 🍆, cool off in the Schoharie Creek 🏊, go to the car show 🚗 at the Blenheim Pump Storage Power Plant and then Mine Kill before heading out to the folks house 👪 at 4 pm.

Been a nice weekend. ☺ I kind of was hoping to camp at West Kill site for reasons of convenience but Betty Brook was nice too. A week and a half from now I’ll be heading out to the Finger Lakes. Probably the thing that excites me the most is all the fresh produce. 🍅 A good fresh tomato is so mouth 👄 watering. Paddling and floating on Seneca Lake, Glen Dairy Bar 🍦and watching the sun set across Seneca Lake. 🍹I finished off the remainder of the pre-roll 🚬 that I’ve been enjoying since before Independence Day Weekend, I look forward to smoking some more once I’m out in the Finger Lakes.

I know cannabis isn’t allowed on federal lands but whatever, I’ll keep it locked up and I’ll be in the back country and I’ve never seen any federal rangers 👮 back there. Maybe a DEC Conservation Officer and a Schuyler County sheriff officer drove by during the Government shutdown in 2013 or on a Friday night to look for teenagers partying and trashing the place, but I’d doubt they care about a little smoke. I’m sure they’d be cool as long as I’m not trashing the forest 🌲 and it’s not like I’m going to be making a lot of noise or trouble. It’s just nice to relax by the fire 🔥 and puff a bit. I do want to get an odor free pouch for storing the cannabis which is pungent when opened. 👃 It’s kind of like silage, the smell gets everywhere.

Going to be a hot one today 😰 though supposedly less humid. But the heat is going to break by the second half of week, and maybe some rain showers. 🌧️ Next weekend I could hammock camp but a down weekend might be good before summer vacation. No nature bus 🚍 to Thacher Park next week as it was this weekend but it’s not like I couldn’t drive there or do something else local. I want to get a few supplies prior to summer vacation – new handle grips and a bolt on kick stand for the bike 🚲, new globe for the lantern (as a backup) 🏮 and a 512 gb storage card for my phone 📱 so I have plenty of storage 💾 for photos. 📸 And obviously fill my empty propane tank which then should be good for the week. Hoping the hot and sunny weather returns for summer vacation.

I’m still kicking myself for not bringing the tube 🛟 as I found several good pools in the Schoharie Creek for floating but maybe I’ll be back to Schoharie in mid to late August before summer is done. But that said there aren’t that many weeks of summer left before September as Labor Day is fairly early and the first weekend of August I’ll still be out in the Finger Lakes. 🏕 September cools off and I’d still like to get to Piseco Powley one more time this year – maybe if I go to the Little Falls cheese 🧀 festival in September but it depends on the work load for the campaign committee.