Good morning! Where did Summer go? Trump must have stolen it away. 😔 Three weeks to Average High 70 🎑. Autumn is coming. Mostly sunny and 49 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. Calm wind. With the sun it doesn’t feel that cold though. ☀

I ended up deciding to go up to that campsite I like up in Perkins Clearing in the Adirondacks. ⛺ I did drive up to an swing by Fox Lair but that campsite was taken and I honestly didn’t want to listen to the road noise all weekend long. I thought I stop by at any rate. This campsite has good views of the skies so it’s nice on starry nights 🌃 although I don’t know how I’ll string up a tarp should it rain on Sunday. My guess is that I probably won’t.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 28th. That said it is usually colder up north. Maximum dew point of 48 at 9am. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. It became somewhat humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1953.

Today I’m planning on either hiking back to Pillsbury Lake or Pillsbury Mountain. 🗻 I am a bit undecided on that point. I’ve done Pillsbury Mountain before but there are nice views from the fire tower. Nice cool and clear day to boot. I just got to finish securing camp, change, and I should be on the trail by ten o’clock.

The sun will set at 7:34 pm with dusk around 8:03 pm, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 61 degrees. The dew point will be 46 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌃, with a low of 43 degrees at 5am. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 5th. Light north wind. In 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1967.

I got these really nice sunglasses 😎 from Walmart. While they are all plastic, they are lightweight but not overly dark and have good coverage over the eyes. 👀 You can almost forget that you are wearing them.

I finished reading 📖 Paul Theroux’s Deep South. What a great book. It makes me want to explore the rural south, especially the Ozarks and Missouri which seems like some really wild country with few restrictions on guns 🔫 or open burning. 🔥 Plus they are very friendly towards farming, 🐮 homesteading 🐷and off grid living. 🏡

On this day in 1965, Super Guppy took it’s first flight. ✈ The aero Spacelines Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft that is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It was the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines, which in turn was named for its resemblance to a pregnant guppy. Five were built in two variants, both of which were colloquially referred to as the “Super Guppy”. Now crank up that Steve Miller record, Jet Liner. 🎶

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High 70 🎑 when the sun will be setting at 6:56 pm with dusk at 7:24 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 71 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1895.