Good morning! Happy Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡! Take it Malvina Reynolds with your very white hair and cateye glasses 👓. Her music 🎶 was very old 👴 and subversive and I hate vinyl siding and green grass lawns free of dandelions unless of course you have a goat 🐐 chained up to a tree in the front yard. On this Monday, the 13th of January.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There’s a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

That think my dream involves more four wheelers, more fire, more livestock and guns than vinyl siding and chemical treated lawns.🚙 And I like tin roofs as it means a lot less for the landfill every few years. 💭 The idea of surburbanite living with an SUV, a fancy pretentious looking house, weekly garbage service and grid-tied power, does absolutely nothing for me.🚜 Probably more like a tractor supply commercial, or actually real life like the people in places like South Brookfield and Bedford County Penna live their lives.🐮

Mostly cloudy and 30 degrees at the Valero waiting for the local bus 🚍 as I am dress up for the session day today. ☁ There is a southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️ It looks like the bus will be on time, and I’ll probably be in early to work, probably the first int he office. But early to rise means it’s another chance to get ahead, make a better future for mysellf.

Spent way too much time ironing shirts 👚 this morning. For some reason they came out of the dryer very wrinkled. ♒I am thinking the issue was they were a bit damp. But I ironed all the shirts I need for the week this morning and to ensure they’re good and wrinkle free, I have them hung in the bathtub 🛁 shower curtain rod so they absorb the moisture in the air in the bathroom. You have to know it’s steamy in there when the bathroom steam set off the bedroom smoke detector on my way out to the bus 🚍. Then I knocked a bunch of papers loose 📄 but at least I caught the early bus in plenty of time.

Today will have patchy drizzle between noon and 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 39 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. Spring is coming, or so I tell myself. South wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1932. 13.1 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄ Back when cars were real-wheel drive, and you threw them away at your friendly local landfill every 4-5 years.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:05 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.8° from the due south horizon (-45° vs. 6/21). Yeap, we have to wait for 4 pm for the golden hour to start. 🌟 The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:00 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 Not only is the golden hour great for photography 📷 but it is also good for seeing a wild life. I saw a shit ton of deer bushwhacking back to my truck yesterday after the golden hour started yesterday. Went through some brambles and probably picked up ticks 🐜 but so far didn’t see any but I should have checked again.

The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) starting at 4:41 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 19 seconds with dusk around 5:15 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 I think the sun will be due east on the first day of spring, which if math correct is 270 degrees west. The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 30 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 27th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 8 degrees. The record low of -24 occurred back in 1957.

Snowy weekend weekend on tap to celebrate King’s birthday. ❄ Saturday, snow. High near 34. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Sunday, a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 28. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 66 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

But first a big snow storm on Saturday or maybe not. ❄ But we don’t know for sure but it could be a half of foot or more this weekend. 🎿 Maybe good skiing but I doubt I’ll get out to Madison County especially if it’s going to be pretty cold and snowy. But by then it will be only sixty odd days until calendar 📅 spring although that’s a pretty meaningless thing with the often variable weather of March and April. But at least with the first day of spring in 66 and 2/3rd days away trout season 🎣 is will be nigh.

Next Monday is Martin Luther King Day 🖤 when the sun will be setting at 4:52 pm with dusk at 5:23 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow and temperatures between 21 and 0 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 2006.