Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Rained overnight again and woke up to a warm windy morning- threatening clouds in the SW and whitecaps on the lake. Having Polenta with pork sausage from Packit Gourmet- wow is it good! It's nice to just have the little twig stove to boil water for coffee and a hot breakfast sometimes. And speaking of twig stoves...the thing is there are so many twigs in the world. At first I thought it would free me from the chore of wood processing, and in a way it has. But if you look at it a different way, it's just given me a whole 'nother type of wood to process. You'll be drinking coffee on the shore and look down and see a nice twig. 5 minutes later both fists are full of twigs and your coffee is sitting alone by a boulder. Eventually you are captured at Menards in the garden center, ripping open a bag of mulch and shoving wood chips in your pockets. And now I'm going to go saw up some driftwood. "Wait, I thought you had a twig stove!" And to that I say, a woman's got to have hobbies.

Went exploring up the shore and found a trail that leads to a cove looking out at the entrance to Little Loon. Deep moss, lichen, blueberries and a N Pike jawbone on a rock..so many teeth. Got back to camp and had a torrential downpour followed by high winds and moderate rain. Held out for awhile but finally fed Amelia and headed for the tent during a break in the precip.