It looks like next week’s forecast is trending cooler than I expected. ☀
I guess that always happens so quickly as autumn approaches. 🍂 I’ve noticed how dark mornings are lately, as the sun rises later and it’s starting to get dark as I get home from work.
I open up my social media and it’s full of people harvesting silage, 🌽 talking about corn as grass, and either blowing the silage up into silos or packing in down in the bunks where it will be allowed to ferment and sugars broken down for easier digestion by cows 🐮 over the next year and turned in milk, 🥛 meat 🥩 and manure 💩 – and all those delicious dairy products like ice cream 🍨 and cheese 🧀.
Today. Feels like …
September 14th.
Partly sunny.
Southeast wind 3 to 6 mph.
and
75 degrees
,66 max dew point,
7:01
sunset.
Tonight. Feels like …
July 15th.
Mostly cloudy.
Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
and
63 degrees
,66 max dew point,
6:38
sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like …
August 22nd.
A slight chance of showers between noon and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny.
Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
and
81 degrees
,65 max dew point,
6:59
sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like …
September 6th.
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then a slight chance of showers between 7pm and 8pm. Partly cloudy.
North wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
I heard the constitution is a good source of carbon to tie down the nitrogen and smell from urine and manure in a hog yard. And confounding politicians of the opposite political party and their poorly thought out plans.
Overcast and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. The skies will clear around 5 pm.
Kind of a muggy morning 😰 but at the same time it just has a very mid September feel to it today. Out for the morning walk 🚶 as I try to get to the 10,000 step goal 🥅 which turns out to be remarkably hard to despite all the walking I do. The air has the taste of rubber on it, maybe I some butyl leaking out of the plastics plant down the road. ☠️
Traffic hasn’t been so bad around the High School lately 🚸 although it certainly helps when I get a later start. At least there are fewer idling cars 🚘 most days but crossing the driveway on the crosswalk by the high school is a bit dangerous.
I am glad it’s a Friday ☺ as it’s been a long week as I’m out used to working downtown five days a week with the bus 🚍 and everything else. But in some ways the consistency of it is kind it is kind of nice, as is not being home all of the time. 💳
Tonight I’ll run to the store and get some supplies 🍔 and get packed so I can leave early in the morning for the Adirondacks ⛰. I haven’t asked for Monday and Tuesday off but I have no meetings scheduled and I can hand my duties off to some other people or get caught up on Wednesday. I have the time, I should take both days off – pushing my autumn trip off a few weeks means I’ll accumulate more vacation time by the time I take off that week in late October or early November. ⛺
I’ve working updating the graphing code on the blog 📊 to work with Chartjs 3.5 as I’m still using the 1.x version. I wrote a wrapper around the old code but I want to be generating 3.5 code for future graphs so that it’s more future compatible and I can do more gradients on the graphs.
Early Tuesday morning, Melissa Breyer set out to do her usual volunteer work — collecting the bodies of migratory birds who had died colliding with skyscrapers in downtown Manhattan.
That morning was much worse than usual. In just over an hour, Breyer picked 226 tiny, lifeless bodies off the sidewalks around the World Trade Center. Another 35 had died but fallen onto inaccessible awnings. Thirty were still alive in need of veterinary aid and were transferred to the care of a wild bird rehabilitation center.
