DEC to Conduct Controlled Burns at Coeymans Wildlife Area – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

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DEC to Conduct Controlled Burns at Coeymans Wildlife Area – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Blodgett Hill, the only known public lands that have Pitch Pine-Scrub Oak on them in Albany County outside of the Pine Bush will undergo a controlled burn this spring to rehabilitate this over-grown fire suppressed ecosystem this spring!

This should be great both for the turkey population and wildlife more generally in the area, and enhance views from Blodgett Hill.

April 11, 2018 Morning

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Good morning! What day is it? A Ducking 🐦 Cold Hump Day,🐪 of course. Next Wednesday is Average High is 60 🌼. This year? 😆😆😆 Mostly sunny☀ and 30 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Last year was 87 degrees today while today will struggle to break fifty. 😼

Today will be partly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 47 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees below normal. Light south wind increasing to 6 to 11 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 87 degrees which is the record high for today. 1.7 inches of snow fell back in 1942.❄

This cold weather ducks teat. 🐦Or something like that. Although I don’t think ducks have teats like cows. 🐄I know spring will eventually happen🌷🌷 or so I tell myself. I guess it’s not that bad when I was at bus stop🚏 and the bus is nice with the sun streaming in. 🚌 It was mad cold this morning with the heat off but I can’t afford to use the heat during the month of April especially since I need money to buy gasoline, beer, ammunition and bait for camping.

The sun will set at 7:33 pm with dusk around 8:02 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clouds with a chance of rain showers ☁ and 44 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain showers before 2am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 2am and 5am, then a slight chance of snow showers after 5am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy ☔ , with a low of 35 degrees at 3am. Two degrees below normal. South wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 13 occurred back in 1874.

As they say, once you climb over the Hump unless of course you own a Ford, 🎢it’s all downhill as we coast towards the weekend. I’ll have to work this weekend, but gosh working on the weekend isn’t bad because there ain’t the crowds.

Tonight maybe I will spend some time with the soldering iron🔦 and keep working on that LED lamp I’m building.🔬 And go to the grocery store. Or maybe not.🍎 I’m kind of enjoying the challenge of making meals out of the random things I can find around my kitchen. Saving money that way and helping to avoid food waste too.

I was thinking about camping this morning and the fresh air🌺 of summer. I miss cooking with the Coleman oven, fresh baked camp pizza🍕 eating off Styrofoam plates and watching them melt in the fire. 🔥I miss the sometimes pungent smells of the countryside🐷🐮 and the woods,🌲 the small towns and scenic vistas. 📷

For my first camping trip of the year, I am thinking about the East Branch of the Sacandaga River in the Adirondacks. 🌃I was looking at pictures and I miss the mountains. Now if the snow would finally disappear and I don’t have to work one weekend⛺. Maybe the last weekend of April.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Average High is 60 🌼 when the sun will be setting at 7:41 pm with dusk at 8:10 pm. I’ll believe it when it happens. There is a lot of fake news in Trump’s America. On that day in 2017, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 58 and 40 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 60 degrees. We hit a record high of 90 back in 1976.