Good evening! Partly clear and 62 degrees in Delmar, NY.🌌 There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 56 degrees. Real nice evening, sat out back for a while.

Today was a beautiful weather day ☀ and I was able to work out back for a while ☺ and did the morning Zoom Meeting from the park. 🏞 I enjoyed all the fresh air and the sun, some days I don’t mind working remotely that much. I downloaded a bunch more historical topographic maps 🗺️ and I will be uploading various products derived from them in the coming weeks.

I went grocery shopping 🛒 at Wally World and then over to John Wolcott’s house 🔬 and found those Rapp Road pig farm 🐖 photos I’ve been looking for ever since I saw the negatives there. Plus even more interesting old photos from the Fort Orange Dig 🔎 and the Interstate 787 dig. Sometimes the stuff we find is just a lot of boring old 🧓🏽 Dutch documents 📝 but sometimes stuff is really fascinating. 🇳🇱

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 58 degrees at 3am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 30th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 4am. South wind around 5 mph. 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 51 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1967.

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon with 98% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the southeast (144°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, some 245,209 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by March 5^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Harvest 🌽 Moon is tomorrow on Tuesday, September 1. The darkest hour is at 12:57 am, followed by dawn at 5:52 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:21 am in the east-northeast (78°) and last for 2 minutes and 58 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:58 am with sun in the east (84°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 8th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 4pm. South wind 6 to 10 mph. I guess the nice weather will be gone at least for a while starting tomorrow. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1953.

Tomorrow I should be able to work from home 🏡 all day and I’m good on supplies. I might still end up going to the library to upload some content to the blog ⤴️ or if I am doing some kind of project that requires a lot of bandwidth for work. I also am thinking I should decide what I want to do for the holiday weekend – especially if I decide to leave Wednesday night or Thursday and work remotely through the weekend. Not sure, but it sure looks nice for the rest of the week after Wednesday.

Between some of those homesteading, farm, off grid groups I’m a member of it sure puts a kick in my pants 👖 to work harder every day to my goals. 🥅 There are some really nice simple homes people build for themselves on great land they farm. While I doubt I’ll ever be a builder 🏡 if you want land but a tiny off grid home they certainly do exist out there but you gotta get rural and to a state without a lot of regulations.

But it’s definitely possible if you live modestly now and save for a better tomorrow. 💵 Land and implements is expensive but it gets cheaper the more rural and less trendy you get you – especially if you buy upland they has poor soils until of course you run a couple tons of grain 🌾and spoiled bread 🍞 through pigs. 🐷 Exactly what they did on Rapp Road a generation ago in the Pine Bush. Soil can be rebuilt, infertile soil restored and built with organic matter. 💩

I found out as a salaried supervisor today, I no longer have to clock in and out 🕒 which is good because thats one less stress in life. While I don’t mind doing a time sheet having to punch 👊🏻 the online clock was frustrating 😤 because I’d forget half of the time. The pay is good and I’m learning a lot, trying to do my best 👍🏻 every day so eventually I can have my own land and enjoy all the good things I see every day like livestock and land when I open Facebook each morning.

In four weeks on September 28 the sun will be setting in the west (267°) at 6:41 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 24 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 82 and 54 degrees. I doubt it will be that warm this year. Typically, you have temperatures between 67 and 46 degrees. The record high of 83 degrees was set back in 2014.

Looking ahead, Labor Day 👨‍🏭 is in 1 weeks, Columbus Day ⛵ is in 6 weeks, Halloween 🦇 and the Blue Moon 🌕 is in 2 months, Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon is in 13 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 16 weeks, 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 17 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 4 months, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 20 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 20 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 21 weeks and February 🌧 is in 22 weeks.