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And then I was done with an * And now my thoughts are beach baby, beach. 🏖

It will be a great summer. That is if it ever warms up again and the legislature doesn’t come back for a, summer session which will happen at one point or another. Okay, today will be in the low eighties but they’re talking about highs in the 60s and 70s for mid June. I don’t think we’ve had a real hot and muggy day yet this year. Hit ninety a couple of times but with very little humidity. Then again I’m not as well insulated as I once was.

Good morning! Partly cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 52 degrees.

It’s a pretty nice morning. 🌅 I’m out walking 🚶 as usual, have a pot of red kidney beans on the stove simmering down. 🍲 I was actually studying all the different types of beans they have at the store including some of the soup mixes. I’ll have to do some bean soup come the winter, especially if I avoid too much salt and fats in it. Legumes are so healthy and the nature of beans is they fill you up quickly and keep you full all day.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 82 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 24th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 11am. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1947.

Yesterday I worked from home the bulk of the day 💻, it was just a lot of waiting around for Committee Agendas and calendars to be released, checking votes and responding to miscellaneous emails 📧. It’s all time I can use next week for going to the Adirondacks. ⛺ In the afternoon I went down to the library 📚 both to work and get books out. I got some books out on bicycle repair 🚲. Then I came home, had dinner and got groceries. 🏪

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.5° from the due south horizon (-0.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:51 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:34 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 33 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:53 pm.

I got a good night’s sleep 😴 last night not rushing out this morning. Planning on banana – oatmeal pancakes 🥞 🍌 this morning with coffee ☕ after I get done walking and get milk 🥛 at Stewart’s. I’m going to get a gallon of skim milk this time as I want to make sure I’m getting enough calcium and vitamin D in my diet plus I’m heading out camping 🏕 on Thursday for the long weekend. Plus I have a free half gallon card this week.

Today I’m heading out to the Gas Up with dad 🚜 which should be fun as the last time I went was before the pandemic. I’m sure things haven’t changed that much. But should be fun. Then I have to start getting ready for the upcoming work week and heading out of town for camp. ⛺

At sunset, look for potential rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 74 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated showers before 9pm, then isolated showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 62 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 60 at 8pm. South wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1972.

On this day in 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. The self-immolation would be captured on film and would go around the world 🔥 . On the same day, John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that propsed equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights. ⚖

One month 📅 from now will be World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 when the sun will be setting at 8:35 pm with dusk at 9:07 pm. The average high temperature is 34 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895.

Truck cap camping is perfect for me

Truck cap camping is perfect for the type of camping I prefer to do on the back roads 🏞 where I like to travel and camp.

I like to camp in quiet isolated areas where I can listen to music,🎶🎚 shoot guns 🔫 and fireworks🎆, have a big fire, burn whatever I want 🔥 without bothering others. Yet such sites are not always accessible with more than a truck.🚚

Maybe when I get older I’ll want something more like an truck camper but I have my doubts as I’m not big into fancy soft things.🛋 I prefer things that are easier to clean off the mud on and spending my time actually outdoors in the elements.🏕

Why I prefer truck cap camping

Truck cap camping is perfect for the type of camping I prefer to do on the back roads where I like to travel and camp.

I like to camp in quiet isolated areas where I can listen to music, shoot guns and fireworks, have a big fire without bothering others. Yet such sites are not always accessible with anything bigger then a pickup truck.

Maybe when I get older I’ll want something more like an truck camper but I have my doubts as I’m not big into fancy soft things. I also don’t like the higher clearance or extra weight in the bed. I prefer things that are easier to clean off the mud on and spending my time actually outdoors in the elements.

April 23, 2017 Afternoon

Good afternoon! Sunny and 58 degrees in Wells. There is a southwest breeze at 5 mph. Definitely a really nice afternoon after a fairly cold and wet weekend at the Adirondacks. I hate it when the best weather is the time your going home but still it was a pretty nice somewhat extended weekend in the Adirondacks.

This afternoon will be sunny, with a high of 64 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal. West wind 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 64 degrees. The record high of 87 was set in 2007. 2.4 inches of snow fell back in 1956. Goblers and the birds are definitely enjoying the nice weather.

The sun will set at 7:50 pm with dusk around 8:21 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 13 hours and 50 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday. By Wednesday we will be up to 14 hours of daylight. Not bad. But the sun sure seems to rise early.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 37 degrees at 4am. Three degrees below normal. West wind 3 to 6 mph. In 2016, it got down to 35 degrees under partly clear skies. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1965.

Looking ahead for all you mothers (pun intended), there are 3 weeks until Mother’s Day when the sun will be setting at 8:14 pm with dusk at 8:47 pm. On that day in 2016, we had fog, rain and temperatures between 73 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 69 degrees. We hit a record high of 93 back in 1900.

This past weekend I camped at one of the campsites down the road Fox Lair on NY 8. Same campsite that I previously camped in many times before. This campsite is nice because it’s an old homesite that is well drained and gravel with high dirt berm and a mountain on one side which is good for safe shooting. My shoulder is a bit sore from the recoil. I didn’t damage state property. Anything not fully burnt to a crisp was packed out. This campsite is protected from the wind, especially compared to the beautiful but often windy Fox Lair campsite.

Camping at NY 8 us great off season but it’s hardly wilderness camping with semi trucks roaring up the start of the hill leading up to Eleventh Mountain. I don’t mind the noise but especially on Friday night there were trucks rumbling along all night. The campsite is above and well screened from the road but still the noise of cars and trucks in passing gear echoing in the valley. A lot of folks with their big diesel pickups were towing their campers up to camp. A loggers hauling logs to the mill in Ticonderoga from Perkins Clearing. Saw a bunch of folks scoping out turkey for spring turkey which starts two weeks from Monday. I certainly heard and saw gobblers up at camp. They’ve done pretty good in this portion of the Adirondacks.

I cannot lie the first half of the weekend was pretty cold. Today with the sun out is much warmer but for the first half of the weekend camping it was on and off rain with clouds and temperatures around 40. Pretty much what you would expect for the Adirondacks for late April. Spring doesn’t come to the Adirondacks until about May 15th. There still was snow and ice in the campsite. Spring peepers were out though on Saturday night and especially once the wind went quiet. Indeed the stars were great once the sky cleared. Sometimes as the weather gets progressively better on your trip you get to have more warm and fuzzy memories of it.

Really nice how much longer the days have gotten. It was nearly 8:30 and it wasn’t pitch black where I was camping in the Adirondacks. True evidence that summer is coming. While the only evidence of spring in the Adirondacks was the rapidly melting snow. Only five weeks until Memorial Day Weekend when Moose River Plains will open. That said this year again I’m thinking about going back up to Vermont for Memorial Day Weekend. We’ll see. I’m sure in the summer I’ll head up to Moose River.

It was rainy on Friday although not a heavy rain most of the time. Once I got the tarp up and got a smokey campfire I was good to go. I was able to coax the heater up which kept my chair toasty but I am having trouble with the quick connect hose and I may have to replace that. I am probably just going to go the route of the conventional LP hose and the replaceable filter modules. I don’t like the idea of disposable filters but I rather have them then a more expensive plugged regulator. It tough keeping the LP hoses which get greasy in cold weather from condensation and the mud and dirt from camping. The heater didn’t work on the hose at all on Saturday. I could run the heater off a 1 lb disposable bottle but I don’t like refilling them because of the scary warning printed on the bottle and because honestly I’ve never had much luck refilling them anywhere near capacity.

Saturday wasn’t quite as rainy but it still was pretty cloudy. As planned I drove down to Garnet Lake and went for a walk along the shoreline then out fishing on Mill Creek. Didn’t catch anything but it’s possible that the DEC hasn’t stocked it yet for the year. They say on their website that it’s stocked for trout and there are many access points but I didn’t have no luck. Beautiful area though and I was able to top off my batteries in the truck driving down there.

Sitting back in the woods last night next to the campfire I was listening to Glen Campbell’s Galveston and thinking about how much fun the good ole days most have been in the Adirondacks. But then I remember back then I would have never had the lights and pickup truck camping would have been a much different experience. I certainly wouldn’t be listening to Glen Campbell through my smartphone played through the Bluetooth Speaker.

Sunday morning to start out was very cold, there was ice on the windows of my truck cap. I could have really used the heater this morning. Ended up getting out of bed to take shit in the bucket, and then quickly heading back to the truck for a few more hours of sleep. When I woke up, lots of much desired blue skies and by breakfast time it warmed up a lot.

The gobblers are definitely out there all horney and impregnating then the hens. I saw a hen crossing the road yesterday and I awoke to gobble, gobble. The spring peepers are put and making a lot of chirping noise this morning. It really is a great day.

I had a slow breakfast and broke camp and after packing up discovered my day pack was left home, so without my water jug and backpack I decided to skip my planned hike at Moreau Lake State Park in favor of a short hike to Auger Falls. I stopped at Wells but decided I was running late, so I skipped fishing for the day. I’ll be back to hit up the Sacandaga River later in the spring time.

Auger Falls was really raging. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much water running over it. But then again it’s spring, the snow is still melting and we’ve had a lot of rain over the past few days. I also hiked along the river all the way up to the flatwater. Despite all the rain the trails up there weren’t too muddy as the ground is still frozen. Maybe it worked out better hiking here then going up Moreau Lake overlook. Plus I get to avoid driving the Adirondack Northway which I hate driving with a passion especially with all the speeding Sunday traffic.

Went to the library and got out several books to read but I never ended up opening them. It was kind of cold so I was either huddled over the fire or moving around in part to remain warm. I had a lot of podcasts to sit and listen to so between that and listening to NPR that occupied the time. I really enjoy listening to podcasts next to the campfire. And the nice thing is they are all on my phone and they play wireless to my Bluetooth speaker which is waterproof and can play 20 plus hours without needing a charge. I just plug it into one of USB ports in my truck at night to keep it charged.

The new accessory battery has amazing run time and I don’t have to worry about over discharge as the loads are automatically shed at below 12.1 volts, not that I’ve ever gotten it that low with the new battery. I expect a long life with good runtime with this battery as it was a step up from what I had and the low voltage disconnect is preventing abuse. It’s nice not having to monitor the voltage or hear the chirp of the inverter sensing low voltage.

It is nice getting back out camping but I can’t wait until it gets warmer. I mean I could skip black fly season but I just hate having to be so bundled up. I know if you camp in the woods away from the swamps you can avoid the worse of the black flies. I miss the Potholers and Pisceo Powely Road. Those warm summer nights at Powely Bridge can’t be far away.

As much as horrifies my liberal friends I do love my Gadsden flag. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to own my own Don’t Tread on Me Flag but was too embarrassed to spend the $8 to buy it. I mean I’m a life long liberal Democrat who loves guns and all things fire, but I also think government is too much in our lives. I’ve flirted with the Tea Party because I love the Man (lol!) and his aerial highway patrols as much as the next person, but I also think that Obamacare has helped a lot of people even if I think that the subsidies should have been a lot more generous for middle class families. Why can’t government help people get healthcare and an affordable college education without spying on our emails or beating up on the farmers just trying to do their jobs? Animal rights and environmental extremists have gotten much too much control in our society today. Not every acre of land should be declared wilderness. We can have public lands with great backcountry camping and trails but also have logging. I believe we can have a government that works for the people and promote the common good without treading on people’s rights.

I have lots of great photos and videos to upload this week. Stay tuned for more! Movies are going to be a big part of the blog going forward.

Enjoy this beautiful day! I’m on my way back to the cesspool, aka Albany. But I’m sure I’ll be back to the Adirondacks sooner than later. Big summer ahead!

The Sound of Rain on the Truck Cap

I normally am not a fan of rain when I am camping. I don’t like getting wet, and rain can put a damper in plans to go hiking. I worry about rain washing out the roads, or making the mud so deep and slippery the roads become impassable and I’m stuck on whatever truck trail I am currently on.

My truck cap leaks. By at least one of the windows, the fiber glass has shrunk around the window — probably from my use of Sterno to heat the cap — and allowed water to leak in whenever it rains. The wet isn’t bad, but it does make it damp.

The windows can’t be open when it rains — at least heavily — because of the slant to make the truck cap more aerodynamic. It gets humid under the cap, with no air flowing around to make up for the moist air I breathe out.

I worry about severe thunderstorms, as the I know laying in the steel truck bed, in a severe thunderstorm offers no protection from lightening, and the fiberglass would tear and shatter if a tree came down.

Yet, worst of all, it can be entrapping. There is relatively little room, especially with gear. I might have enough room to sleep in the truck cap, but it really isn’t big enough for doing any real living inside, with nowhere to stretch or move, without flipping down the tailgate.

Regardless, I kind of like the sound of rain on the truck cap. I can be loud, but it also is so soothing.

Canoeing at Lawson Lake

Lawson Lake is a County Park located about 3 miles north of the Alcove Reservior that is a popular local place to go canoeing, fishing, and swimming (although posted against swimming). It is located just off of Route 32, about a mile prior to passing the Alcove.

I frequently go down there canoeing when a have an hour or two to burn up, but don’t want to drive a few more miles out to Partridge Run to canoe on some of those lakes. Lawson Lake is located in a beautiful valley as you can see.

Usually when I go out canoeing, I bring the dog with me to help balance the canoe. Usually he is quite well behaved, except when he’s not. He understands left and right, front, and sit.

Here is the dog sitting down and looking out over the side of the canoe.

The edge of the pond is quite swampy, but with lots of wildlife, including great blue fishers, beavers, snapping turtles and other animals.

Along the edge of the pond are Pond Lillis that can be a bit difficult to paddle through. Good place for fishing, I’m sure.

My little Ford Ranger pickup truck has a 6 foot short-bed. Yet, at least with one of the canoes my parents own, it fits well in the truck is well balanced. The canoe is held down by the truck cap, and tied in with a set of Bunche Cords. It rides increadibly beautiful — I’ve taken it over very bumpy state truck trails with no problems at Partridge Run, and driven dozens of miles at high speed like this.

Here is a map. It’s very easy to get there from Albany, and probably even a quicker drive then out to Partridge Run.

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The rains a coming on this Hump Day 🌧️

I’m up early and bussing it to work doing laps walking on the Concourse. Been a while since I’ve been downtown but I figure it’s a good chance to get in some steps before work.

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Cloudy ☁️ and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 6 am. ☃️ I can keep the heat off for now, didn’t even need the electric blanket last night.

Pancakes with carrots, oatmeal banana and cinnamon topped with mango and blueberries with real maple syrup, 🥞 just waiting for the blood sugar crash. 😋 Probably should have had more protein with breakfast besides the egg in the batter, though carrot, whole wheat flour and oatmeal should slow the absorption of the sugar.

Today will have showers, mainly after 10am. 🌦 High of 49 degrees at 4pm. Typical for today. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1998. 6.7 inches of snow fell back in 1959.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 50.2° from the due south horizon (-20.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:39 pm with the sun in the west (269°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (275°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:16 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:44 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:18 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 48 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 12 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over today.

Yesterday for dinner was reheated ham soup 🍲 from the parents house and homemade bread 🍞 which was good with some shredded apple 🍏 and shredded oatmeal with cinnamon for dessert. 😋 I decided to do a bike ride 🚲 out along Meads Lane to see the cows 🐮 and get a bit more exercise as I knew I wouldn’t be riding to work today. 😔 I did ride both ways yesterday to work but rain today. ☔ Maybe I’m just making excuses and making the bus company rich.

Tonight will have a chance of showers. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 4am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. South wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2023, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 85 occurred back in 1945.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Good Friday, mostly sunny, with a high near 49. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Breezy. Easter Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

I still haven’t heard about Good Friday ✝️ but I am inclined to thst believe that I will have it off but it hasn’t been made official yet probably because of the state budget crap. These days I’m glad I’m no longer working Capitol Hill. 🏢 I will probably pack tonight, and I’m hoping to use my get out of jail early card for Thursday but who knows. I’d kind of like to get bacon 🥓 on the way to the ADKs from For the Love of Bacon but they close at 5 pm, plus I want to get up north fairly early not just to crack open a beer 🍻 but because it takes more time to set up camp ⛺ in the snow. The bacon place is open at 7 am on Good Friday so I could do the bacon thing on Friday and go up early as an alternative assuming that I don’t know about Good Friday until tomorrow.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 8 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:33 pm. On that day in 2023, we had sunny skies and temperatures between 67 and 30 degrees. That works for me. Typically, the high temperature is 57 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1922.

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