October 17, 2018 Night

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Good evening! Cloudy and 39 degrees in Clay. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 23 mph 💨. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 3 am. ☃️ Not a terrible day, but very busy to say the least. But a lot of important things got done, and I was able to call the folks for a while.

Tonight will have a chance of rain showers before 2am, then a slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy ☔ , with a low of 31 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees below normal. Cool night ahead, but not unheard of cold. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2017, we had clear skies. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 64% illuminated with the moon setting at 12:49 am. The Full Hunter’s Moon 🌕 is on Tuesday night. The sun will rise at 7:21 am with the first light at 6:53 am, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours and 5 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before 1pm, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. 17 degrees below normal. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 70 degrees. The record high of 84 was set in 2016. There was a dusting of snow in 2015.❄

I went on Ali Express today and ordered some electronic components for a project I’m thinking about building this winter. 📬 Ali Express is a great place to buy inexpensive Chinese components for electronics projects. It’s like Radio Shack only slower, much cheaper and with a much wider selection.

I forgot that I am out of contact solution, 👀and left the extra bottle I had in the office. It’s fine, I needed to get fresh contacts at any rate as my eyes are getting irritated from the long days in the office. I’ll just wear glasses in the morning. 👓

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 🙁 Saturday, showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 55. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday, snow showers likely, possibly mixed with rain before 2pm, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 43. Brr. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 58 degrees.

In four weeks on November 14 the sun will be setting at 4:41 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 36 minutes and 46 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 40 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 49 and 32 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 1973.

Looking ahead, Halloween 🎃 is in 2 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 3 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is a month away, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 10 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 118 weeks.

Heading Out of the Mountains

Don’t really like restaurant food

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When traveling for work I can usually get reimbursed for one meal a day along with lodging. But I usually don’t get food because I’m not a real big fan of restaurant food.🍝 I don’t really find it pleasant to eat out, especially when I am traveling alone and I don’t like all the waste and packaging for take out. I also think fast food is just plain gross, 🍟it’s all grease and not very filling. It’s not something I’m used to eating at any rate.

But even at home I almost never eat out. Maybe because I’m single but it also just seems kind of weird trusting strangers to cook your food.🍳 I also am trying to save money wherever possible for my future off grid cabin.💰 Five or ten bucks doesn’t sound like much, but I’m trying to save money wherever possible. While I do often buy lightly packaged per-cooked food at home, and I’m no chef, I would rather do the cooking myself then rely on others.👨‍🍳

Dolly Sods Wilderness

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Dolly Sods Wilderness

"The Dolly Sods Wilderness — originally simply Dolly Sods — is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA, and is part of the Monongahela National Forest (MNF) of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS)."

"Dolly Sods is a rocky, high-altitude plateau with sweeping vistas and lifeforms normally found much farther north in Canada. To the north, the distinctive landscape of "the Sods" is characterized by stunted ("flagged") trees, wind-carved boulders, heath barrens, grassy meadows created in the last century by logging and fires, and sphagnum bogs that are much older. To the south, a dense cove forest occupies the branched canyon excavated by the North Fork of Red Creek."

"The name derives from an 18th-century German homesteading family — the Dahles — and a local term for an open mountaintop meadow — a "sods""