Good morning! What day is it? Save the Pine Bush Dinner Day, of course. 😋 Should be a good one with lasagna and the SUNY Albany Protect Your Environment Club 🌎 from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Two weeks to May 🕊. Enjoy it before the black flies are out. Mostly sunny and 44 degrees at Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. Calm wind. It’s warmed up quickly on this certain to be nice spring day. 🐝

It was a pleasant walk down to the express bus. 🚌 Lately the drivers have been parked at the bus stop early which gives me a little more time to work on blog posts as I wait to head downtown✍. Lots of sun, smooth commute downtown, and grass is greening up.🌿

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 25th. That’s Arbor Day, a good day to celebrate trees 🌲and all they provide society like wood to burn. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 2002. .3 inches of snow fell back in 1965.❄

The sun will set at 7:39 pm with dusk around 8:09 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 60 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

That Pine Bush dinner should be a good one. 🍛Tastey dinner and a great presentation. I was thinking tonight would be a good time for going down to the park until I realized it was Pine Bush night.

Tonight will rain likely, mainly after 4am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 43 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 1st. South wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1948.

It looks like after tonight through the day after Easter, 🐰 the day they celebrate in Western NY as Dingus Day, it’s going to be rather cloudy and wet. But depending on which forecast you look at the weather for the following weekend in the Adirondacks 🗻 looks pretty good. The snow is rapidly melting in the North Country for sure. It looks like a big warm up is ahead for the end of the month. With the rain we will be getting in Albany over the next few days followed by the heat, things will really be out in bloom. I don’t expect though for things to be very green when I’m up north, but blue skies would certainly be nice for camping, even if not as nice for fishing.⛺

Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts 👂 about both self improvement and studying spreadsheets about compound interest, savings and retirement. I do think going car less for a few years is an option to explore further but not until 2021 — it could save a lot of money. In the meantime, I’m researching different insurers and what I really should have on my policy. Won’t save a lot of money, but a little bit. I also been pricing out hunting camps and other remote off-grid properties, to see what I really need for resources to buy land in 10 years. Obviously, that has to be tied to some kind income going forward,  and probably just as important, some kind of affordable health insurance. But it’s good to have a realistic picture of the numbers and challenges ahead.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until May 🕊 when the sun will be setting at 7:55 pm with dusk at 8:26 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 43 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 2001.