Good evening! Clear and 61 degrees at the NYS Capitol, waiting for the bus to take me home. 🚏 There is a north-northeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 45 degrees. A fairly nice autumn evening.

I went over to John Wolcott’s house for a while this evening. 🔍 No real interesting historical documents were found tonight. Mostly duplicates of existing documents. Definitely gets dark though early this time of year.

I finally took off the week of October 5th for my West Virginia trip. 🍂 Should be a nice week, assuming the weather is decent. Probably with September closing out so warm and sunny it will be rainy and cold by then but do be it. Might still be some leaves left by then in the High Country of West Virginia.

I’m going to be home 🏡 too late to fix the solder joint on the display in my bedroom 📟 but it’s working fine now that I’m back feeding power using a USB cable to the microprocessor. Tomorrow is the Pine Bush Dinner, so I’ll be home even later tomorrow.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 26th. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2018, we had light drizzle in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 35 occurred back in 1986.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 78% illuminated. The moon will set at 10:44 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Friday night with mostly clear then patchy fog skies. The Hunter Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, October 12th. The sun will rise at 6:36 am with the first light at 6:08 am, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 35 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 21st. Maximum dew point of 47 at 8am. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 7 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was sticky. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1891.

That should be another nice autumn day, 🍂 before the heat builds in for the weekend. That said, even a hot late September weekend really isn’t that oppressive and I doubt it would be super humid. I do look forward to at getting one final night up at Pisceo-Powley Road before winter.

In four weeks on October 15 the sun will be setting at 6:13 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 39 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 61 and 39 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 60 and 40 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 1897.

I hear Gulf Brook Road to Boreas Pond is now open. 🚤 I’m thinking about checking that out come mid to late November assuming that there is no snow ⛄ up there. I bet by then all of the crowds will be gone, especially on a week day. Might be the same trip that I also hike back to Pharoah Lake and maybe camp along the Vanderwhacker River in Newcomb. ⛺ That could be a nice adventure for late November.

I was looking below and fifteen weeks is all that’s left this year of 2019. ⏳ New Years Eve 2020 will be hear before you know it. Time sure goes fast. I can’t believe we are already contemplating the end of the decade. Okay maybe not the decade but the 2010s are nearly done and the 2020s are just around the corner. The way I look at it – the next day may be problematic for our county but I’m entering my prime earning years – my 40s and if I work hard and save I’ll be much closer to my goals by the end of the 2020s. I might toast the end of the 2010s in the wilderness this year, it depends on how much snow there is at that point. 🎉 Maybe camp at Cherry Ridge in Brookfield if it’s still snow free at that point?

Looking ahead, October 🛥 is in 2 weeks, Election Day 2019 🗳️ is in 7 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is in 2 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 12 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 14 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 15 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 17 weeks and Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 18 weeks.