Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Four weeks to Strugeon Moon 🌕 . Partly cloudy and 74 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. 🌥 There is a south breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear around 8 pm.

Hot day with the humidity 😰 although truth be told, tomorrow will be even hotter. Waiting for the bus 🚍 up to Thacher Park after walking 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers. 🐦. 😷 Not wearing the mask much lately, I forgot it and had to run home. I can’t believe how hot it is out already.

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 84 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 10am. South wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1952.

The plan is to catch the next bus 🚍 to Thacher Park 🏞 and then go for a, walk 🚶🏻 up to Thompsons Lake, swim and cool off 🏊🏻‍♂️ – already getting hot. Then back to Thacher Park and lay back in the hammock. A lot of people already at Five Rivers, I like the quiet – maybe it will be quieter 🤫 in the evening when all the kids 👧🏻 go home for dinner. Probably do an evening walk there too.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.7° from the due south horizon (-0.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 2 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 77 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 21 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 71 degrees at 4am. 10 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 11pm. South wind 10 to 13 mph. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 61 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1970.

I suspect that this will be a tough night for sleeping 😴 so I’ll have to use the fan although Sunday and Monday will worse. I might end up going to the office 🏢 the first half of the week just to beat the heat and get more in person hours in to keep the other directors happy 😊. So much pressure to get people back in the office now that COVID is over 😷 👾 💉 but the thing is everybody likes remote work 💻 and things are getting done whether it’s from camp or a bedroom. 👂🏻 It falls on deaf ears.

Last night was cooler 😎 but I still needed the fan. ⚛ I was out at the Town Park last night watching the wildlife and noticing that the deer 🦌 already starting to get good sized numbs as their antlers grow in. Autumn is rapidly approaching. All the farms are cutting hay 🌾, you can smell the manure being applied to the fields now as the first cutting get racked and baled.

On this day in 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, 🎤 underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. 🇩🇪 Also, The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time in 1974 to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. 🍬

Yesterday was my counseling session and it went well, 👨🏻‍⚕️and I was feeling great after it until I realized how it was kind of a bummer. I really don’t like how my counselor keeps telling me that my problems are silly, and that because I’m not doing anything likely to cause significant harm ⚠ I shouldn’t worry so much about my pyromanania. 🔥 You want to move out to the country, have a burn barrel 🛢, livestock 🐮, four wheelers 🏍️and lots of guns 🔫 more power to you. Liking fire or being a conservative doesn’t make you mentally ill. Not harming any one, if your safe and not smoking out your neighbors.

I guess he’s right but I wanted to be pressured to have my views challenged and change. 💭 I guess ethically he can’t tell me to be an urban liberal Democrat who drives a Prisus, 🚘 doesn’t eat meat 🥩, advocates for gun control 🔫, and recycles rather than burns his garbage ♻. I so wanted to be told I was terribly wrong, but I guess that’s not what a he can do. But I wish he would listen to me more and talk less. 🔕 While I get that I’m paying for his advice I also feel that he should listen more and talk less.

He seems to want to move on to discussing my sometimes contrarian attitude 🙄 but at this point I don’t know how much farther I want to continue. I’m $125 in the hole 🕳 with co-pay now, and I feel like I’ve discussed all my deepist secrets. 🤫 I’ve learned some things, reevaluated parts of my life. 👩🏻‍🌾 Started to think about girl friends and settling down a bit. I’ve learned additional techniques to deal with my anxiety 😯 and as winter became summer. 🏖 I think I want to cancel my next session and reevaluate come autumn although I’ve scheduled an appointment a week from Friday but I could cancel as I’d rather be in the Adirondacks.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Strugeon Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:24 pm with dusk at 8:56 pm. On that day in 2020, we had humid, partly sunny and temperatures between 82 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1941.