Good morning! Happy Saturday. Its the weekend in Biden’s ‘merica! No malarkey allowed. Working from home it doesn’t seem like that big of a change but I don’t have to check my work email as much on Saturday. 📧 Next Saturday is Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌. Pow! Pow! Overcast and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️

Had a nice big ol pile of pancakes 🥞 for breakfast, and coffee ☕. Breakfast was good. I’ve been having a lot of eggs and cereal 🥣 lately so pancakes topped with frozen cherries 🍒 is a good change. Lately frozen cherries have been my snack of choice – fairly healthy and they help reduce achiness now that I’m cooped 🐔 up in my apartment with November underway.

Trimmed my hair 💇🏻‍♂️ up again. I like being able to keep my hair a consistent length without the barber 💈and then I can also compost or burn the waste hair. I don’t like when my hair gets too long and curly or gets matted from mud and sweat especially in the woods – and these days working remotely I don’t shower as much. 🚿 Last shower I took was Tuesday. 👃🏻Bathing 🛀 is nice, start to smell after a while.

I survived Friday the 13th in 2020 and both went for a morning and evening walk. Yesterday wasn’t a terrible day but it was cloudy and boring 💤 working from home. I haven’t been on the Wi-Fi since Tuesday so I’m out of podcasts and videos to watch 📺 but I guess that’s a good thing. I’ve been finding and downloading Coronavirus data and using it to make maps 🗺 and charts for the blog.

Been trying to get up and around more to avid getting so stiff and sore from my uncomfortable home work chair. 💺 My neck and back have been feeling a lot better 💪🏻 since I’ve been making stretching activities during the work day more of a priority. At times now I stand at work or kneel on my knees at the desk to improve my posture.

Today will be cloudy ☁️, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞, with a high of 46 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 20th. Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1973. 14.4 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄ I heard maybe some snow flurries today but no big snow storms right away.

I am hoping it will clear out soon ⛅ so it’s nice when I walk 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers 🐦. I know I need to leave relatively early today as it gets dark, early. Plus my battery 🔋 bank is low on the truck so I want it to be topped off before I start my truck on Sunday to go out to the folks house. I haven’t driven anywhere since Monday at this point – which used to be the norm for me most weeks but since the pandemic started I’ve been driving 🚘 down to the library more to work with the Wi-Fi. 🦉

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:41 am with sun having an altitude of 29° from the due south horizon (-41.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:52 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (246°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:35 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 5:03 pm, which is 55 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:39 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 44 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 47 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 10 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 27 degrees at 2am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 30th. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1939.

Cold but not unreasonable tonight. 🚶🏻 I am sure I’ll probably go for a nice walk late this evening and maybe listen 🎧 to podcasts I downloaded while I’m at the Five Rivers Wi-Fi.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Small Business Saturday 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:55 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 47 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 1990.