Good evening. Currently partly cloudy under moonlit skies and 26 degrees in Delmar. A very nice evening for mid-January with pleasant weather expected for the rest of the week but a few cloudy days expected mid-week. Later tonight more clouds, with a low around 18. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Tonight we have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 94% illuminated. Really almost looks like a full moon on this delightful moonlit evening. I can’t complain for it being January. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:15 am with first light at 6:45 am, which is one minute and 50 seconds earlier then today.

The Save the Pine Bush Hike went well as, we had nearly a dozen people . We haven’t had that many people on a hike for a long time. Mark Platt was a great hike leader. It was great weather, with deep blue skies for the first half of the hike. I have photos to upload, I’ll try to get them uploaded starting tomorrow morning. I was having trouble with my USB cable so it didn’t happen tonight.

I got PyQGIS scripting working with the composer view and downloaded the plug-in template generator. It’s obvious that learning python and scripting QGIS will not only save time but will make better, more accurate mapsand teach me a hot new scripting and programming language plus give me knowledge into Qt programming. I certainly can not complain, as I’m really learning everything I can imagine I’ll ever need to know.

Washed much truck today, getting the worse of the salt build up out of the wheel wells and undercarriage to hopefully squeak out a few more rust free years, at least on the body panels. It’s tough living in the rust belt with all the salt they apply. Manufacturers have certainly gotten a lot better at sealing the sheet metal to prevent rust. You don’t see the rust buckets around you might have seen ten years ago, but alas still the tin worm never sleeps.

For Sunday dinner had spinach casserole which my mom makes amazing. It doesn’t sound great to spinach haters but it’s really good. I went grocery shopping today and did my wash. Ready for a productive work week this week.

I hope you had a good Macintosh Computer Day. Sleep well!

Good afternoon on this Macintosh Computer Day. Currently a few clouds but generally sunny and 21 degrees in Delmar. Cold but sunny. Beats the depressing cloudy weather of recent. Today will be partly sunny, with a high near 30. Northwest wind around 8 mph.

Sunset will be at 4:58 pm with twilight at 5:29 pm which is one minute and 17 seconds later then yesterday. Tonight we will have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 94% illuminated. It will rise at 5:50 pm.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.

The days are getting longer. In two weeks the sun will be setting at 5:16 pm, which is 18 minutes later then today. The sunset in four weeks on Feb. 21 is at 5:35 pm. Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 13 is 1 month, 20 days away. Sunset on that day is at 7:00 pm. Looking forward to longer and warmer days but the sun is nice today.

Today is the Save the Pine Bush Hike at 1 PM at the Water Tower on Madison Avenue Extension which is across from the corner of Washington Ave and New Karner Road. I am heading over once I get done with my shower.