Good morning! Squirrel Appreciation Day. It is currently sunny and 18 degrees in Delmar. Sunny all day, with a high near 30. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph. Not a bad day for appreciating squirrels in the woods with your 22lr or air gun. There definitely out there with the sun shinning and the air pressure dropping advancing from the storm down south that will miss us. Sunset will be at 4:54 pm with twilight at 5:25 pm which is one minute and 15 seconds later then yesterday. The post five o’clock sunset is rapidly approaching, coming next Monday.

There are 4 months, 18 days until Best Friends Day. That is a little ways away. This day in 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, including some of whom had emigrated to Canada. Certainly one of the most controversial measures of his presidency, especially by Vietnam veterans who served despite their personal reservations about the war.

The weekend weather looks incredibly nice for mid-January with temperatures reaching the low 30s and plenty of sun, especially on Sunday. For this time of year, it’s pretty nice. Might do an oil change on Saturday and then on Sunday the Save the Pine Bush Hike.

If I didn’t have stuff to do this would be a perfect weekend for camping and snowshoeing or cross country skiing. in the Adirondacks. Maybe next weekend.  Right now the snow is perfect in the Adirondacks for cross country skiing, not too deep but also a good powder layer over an ice covered layer.