is it really 3 weeks

Eh!!! Well, I can claim to be busy... ok, that didn't work :)

The news... LED 40w bulbs are now 15 dollars at Home Depot, but the 75w bulbs are 45 dollars
WHAT is going on here??? We HOPE that there will be a readjustment in price soon...

on the personal front, damaged my right foot, lobbed some 2x4x32 inch wood onto it... big toe is still a bit stiff and sore, but the swelling has gone down... it was one of those accidents you want to forget as soon as possible, but YOUR BODY refuses to let you...

hair cut, and that led to a whole lot of teasing from my friend TG in South Africa... just so happens I got texted by a lady on a dating site, and made the mistake of telling TG!!! The Casanova jokes came out of the woodwork ;) ok, I can take a joke... most days... anyway, didn't last long... the lady and I are heading out on different paths... something that I learned long time ago... people can click, but because of circumstances or their interests long term, they are not going to make it as a couple... Eco-Living was not on this person's life line, summers in NY and winters in the Bahamas, were ;)

ok, back to business...
    have sorted down the material wealth that I have acquired over the years, and it now will fit 3ftx5ftx3ft, and I checked the local Storage Mart, and for a 5x5xY ft locker they charge 92 dollars w/tax included. Not too bad...

On June 10th, I went to Canadian Tire, and bought a WindRiver sleeping bag, good for -10, and spent 4 days at my brother's basement apartment trying it out... it works great, if your in -10 conditions... unfortunately we couldn't simulate that, in Ontario, in June... so it was HOT ;D which augers well for the future...
    but having come up close and personal with the sleeping bag, I came up with some improvements for the future... add a ground sheet cover to the outside via Velcro or sew it on... on the inside, a comforter as a liner would increase the sub zero capability... like perhaps a -20 ;D... thinking either zipper or Velcro attachment, or nothing if it works without....

What I also bought, but didn't try out yet, is a tent and a self inflating air mattress. The Tent is a dome, which they say will take 15 minutes to put up first time, but work down to 5 minutes... was cheap at 30 dollars, but came highly recommended.
 The air mattress has an electric pump inside and needs 4 D cell batteries... this is NOT your swimming hole air mattress...
    I'll be trying both these out the next time I go over to visit the bro.

The wood that landed on my foot was meant for building saw horses, 2, which I completed yesterday, and used them to take the mini-gym I finished last year and now have to ditch, apart. Next step is to build a bed, that I hope to add some gym / exercise capability to... how soon I don't know, as at present it appears that I am on a trajectory to be camping this summer some time.

In Which Case, Worst Case, I'll be doing these updates from my BlackBerry Playbook at McDonald's ;( or Best Case, I'll have a tethered link, and can be blogging from a cell phone, right in my tent!!! OH, JOY!!! Right in the middle of a thunderstorm that is ripping the tent apart ;D

well, it is Father's Day, so in tradition for Father's Day, going to head back to bed for a nap ;)