Good evening! Light rain☔ and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. It’s my final Monday evening commute as somebody who is 34. Feeling better this evening but still a bit achy and tired. Maybe it’s Monday sickness. I fell on ice while taking down camp on Sunday, I’m hoping I’m just recovering from the fall and I’m not getting sick again. 

I got out of work at 5:30 and are taking home the bus, listening to Simon and Garfunkel, as the evening commute grinds along. It’s raining, a light rain, but not that hard on the window panes looking out the window at the streetscape. 💧

Tonight will rain, mainly after 4am. Areas of fog after 7pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low of 35 degrees at 6pm. ☔21 degrees above normal. East wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1970.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon with 32% illuminated with the moon setting at 10:35 pm. The moon will rise tomorrow at 10:48 am. The First Quarter Moon will be tomorrow with partly cloudy skies. The Wolf Moon is on Tuesday, January 30th.🌕 The sun will rise at 7:17 am with the first light at 6:47 am, which is 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. Tonight will have 14 hours and 20 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 2 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain before noon, then showers,☔💧☔ mainly after noon. The rain could be heavy at times. High of 50 degrees at 2pm. 19 degrees above normal. South wind 6 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mist in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1906. 10.6 inches of snow fell back in 1963.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 44. 🌞Sunday, rain and snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. ☁Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

Saturday is the Save the Pine Bush hike which I am leading. Lynne Jackson was supposed to lead it but she is sick. So I’ll be the leader. Toying about tent or truck cap camping in Schoharie County next weekend as the snow will be gone and it will be mild and sunny next weekend but I don’t know. I kind of want to stay home and work on my electronics projects.

I am really interested to see if I can build decent looking acrylic boxes for my LED matrix sign because if I can it will be the basis for many future projects. I’ll use the Arduino, a date module the LED Matrix plus a few colors LEDs to make a beautiful display with all kinds of timers and countdowns. I’m holding off buying future components until I figure out how to build the clear or colored acrylic boxes to hold them. 

Next week on Monday I’ll be 35. 🎂Really not a big deal but only 20 more until I turn 55. If I stay with the state that long, I may retire then. I’m not convinced a late retirement is worth the extra money. I’m trying to save whatever I can afford for retirement. It’s tough. 💰But who knows, that’s a long time away. Although honestly after app these years, time goes by quickly. When you do basically the same thing day after day, it’s all starts to become a blur. 

At some point the future became the present. It’s remarkable how fast the seasons come and go, 🌆and I could definitely use the warm and long days of summer. Camping this past weekend at Cole Hill State Forest was nice⛺ but nothing like those wonderful summer nights to come. I did love listening to the howls of the coyotes, the bellowing of the cows, 🐄and barred owl. But I still prefer those long summer nights. I like truck cap camping with the lights and being able to stay up late and not feel cold. Those days will be here before you know it. Even four weeks out from tonight the weather will have started to moderate, especially with climate change making winters ❄less harsh than they used to be. I really want summer to be back so that I can go truck cap camping along Piseco Powley Road. 

Discovered after washing that another of my Sears shirts was damaged by bleach.😯 I don’t know where the bleach is coming from, maybe it’s actually the rags with floor cleaner or bleach for the counters although I usually try to rinse them before washing. Unfortunately Sears locally is no more, I’ll have to research what I can get online or at JC Penny. I do really like those Sears shirt. 👕Also my dress shoes are getting beat up from the salt and some of the facing material has pealed off. The soles are worn, making them slippery on ice and water. I was thinking of replacing them but first I think I will buy some shoe polish to see if I can stretch a few more months out of them.👞 I hate to waste them, and money is always a problem. While I donate my worn clothing and shoes to the local recycling bin, you have to wonder how much is actually recycled. ♻

When I get home this evening, I’m going to reheat some food in the freezer🍛 then start to play with with the date boards that were delivered last week.:D I don’t know if I will build a clock display tonight⏰📙 but I may very well get the time set up on one and play with the various library features. 

In four weeks on February 19 the sun will be setting at 5:33 pm,🕤 which is 36 minutes and 29 seconds later then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 52 and 31 degrees.☀ Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 18 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 1981.

Looking ahead, My 35th Birthday is in 1 week, Presidents Day is in 4 weeks, Memorial Day is in 18 weeks, Labor Day is in 32 weeks and Columbus Day is in 37 weeks.

🍻Only 122 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🍣