I guess the ride to work is more of a reverse hump as you ride down to the Hudson River through the gorge then head up the Madison Avenue Hill which I’m getting better at pedaling. That said, I do like how it feels when my heart is beating hard. 🚲

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Partly cloudy, the sun is rising and 54 degrees in Delmar for the morning walk. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 52 degrees. Nice morning 🌅 as the sun rises, but it started out dark with the clouds and the later sunrise.

It looks like come Thursday with the rain I’ll be back to bussing it 🚍 so I guess it best to take advantage of the weather today. I’m out for the morning walk 🚶, breakfast and the shower 🚿. Something with zucchini for breakfast, I have too much currently. Probably fry them up with onions and garlic to keep the vampires 🧛‍♂️ away. That was supposed to be dinner last night but somehow when I got home 🏡 I just did edamame with rice – and some balsamic vinegar. I think I’ve worked off the extra pounds from the long weekend 🤰🏼 that was.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 1st. Maximum dew point of 56 at 9am. Light and variable wind. Should be a great day! Not too hot for the ride home. 🚲 A year ago, we had thunderstorm in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1947.

Yesterday I cooked up hard boiled eggs 🥚 and a bag of red kidney beans to have later this week. Rode out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐦 for a while. Dessert yesterday was some cottage cheese and frozen mango. I’m saving the pineapple 🍍 for later in the week. Messed up the hard boiled eggs again — didn’t boil them enough, had to put them in a pot again, and ruined one or two of them when I tried to peal them and it I ended up with yoke everywhere. Walked 4 miles yesterday, rode 23 miles between the commute and Five Rivers.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 58.9° from the due south horizon (-11.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:09 pm with the sun in the west (280°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (287°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:47 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 8:15 pm, which is one minute and 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (208°) at an altitude of 20° from the horizon, 237,502 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:53 pm.

At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 74 degrees. The dew point will be 54 degrees. Very pleasant evening! There will be a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 37 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 40 seconds over yesterday. Not sure what the evening will look like, but I could ride out to Voorheesville or Bender Melon Farm Preserve, 🍈 depending on the weather and the time. I have not been impressed by the peaches at the farmer’s market lately, 🍑 but the “eastern peaches” they have on sale on Hannaford are good and super cheap, which makes me think I should stop on my evening commute — as the rest of the week I’ll be busing it with rain coming.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 59 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 26th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 5am. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1971.

On this day in 1970, César Chávez’s Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins. 🥗 I’m not a real fan of salads, I don’t think they’re particularly nutritious and are often used as an excuse for unhealthy eating in the second course.

Cool and potentially rainy on Saturday. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 65 at 11am. Might be okay for a bike ride after John Wolcott’s funeral, depends on the time though and if I go out to the folks house for clams. 🕹 But Sunday looks great, not too hot or sunny. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Maximum dew point of 58 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 81 degrees.

A true sign of autumn coming, next Wednesday is Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️ when the sun will be setting at 7:35 pm with dusk at 8:03 pm — especially the earlier sunset.  On that day in 2022, we had rain and temperatures between 90 and 66 degrees. We hit a record high of 98 during the 1953 heatwave. Then next Friday starts Labor Day Weekend. So soon it would seem.