The day before Independence Day 2025 🎇

While I did hit a bit rain – actually some pretty heavy rain on NY 334 – this July 3rd has been nice but really a bit too cold for swimming. Just sun but cool expected through Sunday.

I was at camp by 10 am and I got the House Pond Campsite 🏕️ for the weekend, a fact I’m pretty happy about it. It’s so nice to be a short easy bike ride to the Potholers and have the swimming hole 🏊 across the road for floating and swimming. It also will nice to sit down by after dark and light off fireworks 🎆.

Spent much of the day listening Sarah Jones’ Disposable about frontline workers 👷 during the pandemic and reading 📖 a book about Organic Farming. Smoking grass and drinking PBR and eating fried zucchini with bacon 🥓 and onions. And listening to some of the Grateful Dead and Country Joe and the Fish. 🐠 Yes, I’ve become a stoned hippie with a Don’t Tread on Me, Molon Labe and Pride Flag. 🏳️‍🌈

Topped off the coolant in my truck. 🛻 I had noticed a while back it was low, but ever since I last changed the coolant I’ve smelled coolant every once and a while when I use the heater. Truck is getting old, and I blame myself for not getting the coolant done at least one more time a few years back. 🔧 Somehow it got overlooked. Wasn’t a big deal, took less then a cup of coolant to get it to the fill line, but with the hot weather expeected Sunday for driving home, I didn’t want to get low. Also topped off the oil, 🛢️

In some ways with the cooler weather, I wish I had gone somewhere else in the Adirondacks not next to swimming hole. 🏊 Swimming will be great on Sunday, but today is too cold to swim, so I’ve stayed out of the water. I kind of have this idea that Independence Wild Forest would have been fun to go to this weekend, but alas I’m here. Trying to find some new, novel places to explore.