Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north-northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

Not a half bad evening, not super cold, feeling more like the first day of spring tonight – which is different than the first day of summer like last night. ❄ But they’re still talking about a big snow storm on next Saturday. Pine Bush dinner on Wednesday, going over to John Wolcott house Thursday. Three days of session attire this week but at least I get to go home at five each day. 👚 The dress shirts are hanging in the bathroom to absorb moisture as they’re a bit wrinkled but I suspect I’ll need the iron come the morning. Definitely good I got 14 miles walking in today as I doubt I’ll be walking 🚶 down to the express bus 🚍 tomorrow in my suit and tie. 👔But maybe after work I’ll try to get more steps in especially if it’s relatively mild.

It was a good weekend, modestly busy but that kept things moving forward. 💼 I suspect it will be another busy work week but at least I’ll have a few weeknights free without the late nights at work. I have to keep typing up that index 📇 for John Wolcott files 📂, I have a soldering project to work on, some exercise bike 🚲 and YouTube watching to do and I should probably make up some more maps. I might get asked to help with taping 📹 more of the Reszin Adams documentary too.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 28 degrees at 4am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 22nd. Maximum wind chill around 26 at 2am; Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1968.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous 🌖 moon. The darkest hour is at 12:04 am, followed by dawn at 6:53 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:25 am in the east-southeast (119°) and last for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Sunrise is 20 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:09 am with sun in the southeast (127°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 40 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 29 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 40 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. South wind 3 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1932. 13.1 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄

Also on this week’s agenda is to continue researching counseling services and to make an appointment. 💭 I think some talk therapy could make me a better person and more productive. 😁 I was thinking that by next November I will be a lot closer to being out of the lobbying ban and if I was better at selling myself and had more confidence I could get a much better paying job and be closer to my goals of eventually owning my own land and an off grid property. 🏡 That said, I’m still struggling a bit on what exactly I want to get out of these sessions although I guess it depends a lot on how the discussions go. I’d much prefer to go somewhere on the bus line, so I don’t have to worry about driving.

It’s still looking like a good snow storm on Saturday night so I might do some skiing 🎿 during the long weekend next week. I’d love to do another camping trip ⛺ but not sure if we get a ton of snow. Who knows though, it’s something to watch. I did really enjoy my walk at Partridge Run. I should go out to the hilltowns and spend more time out in the country. YouTube on the exercise bike is fun but it’s not like experiencing reality the same way, alone in the wilderness. 🚲 There is something about the wild country that stirs my soul. The sounds of wilderness that I smells and looks of the countryside and Sure beats being stuck in the basement all day.

I might go shopping 🏪 one night this week because somehow I forgot a lot of things at Walmart on Saturday. I could stop somewhere on the way home from work but it might just be easier to drive there if I had a list of things to do like maybe washing my truck again. 🚘I have plenty of reusable bags now 🛄 after my parents got me some but I’m still thinking about getting milk crates for carrying groceries home. It will be nice not to see so many plastic bags flapping around in the trees in the cities.

In four weeks on February 9 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (251°) at 5:18 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 26 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 31 and 20 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 33 and 16 degrees. The record high of 57 degrees was set back in 1925.

Looking ahead, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 2 weeks, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 3 weeks, Snow Moon 🌕 is in 4 weeks, March 🌨 is in 7 weeks, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 8 weeks, Ides of March ✝ is in 9 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 12 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 3 months, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 17 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 18 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 21 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 22 weeks.