Good evening! Mostly clear and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 51 degrees. A pleasant evening, not too cool, sitting out back watching some YouTube 🎞️ I downloaded and then a copy of the NY Back Country Hunters series on Learn to Hunt. Always good to learn a thing or two new.

It was a nice day up at Rennselearville State Forest. 🌻💮🦋 I do wish though I had gotten an earlier start so I would have had more time to explore more of the forest 🔭 but I did get a few hours to poke around the forest. 🌲The morning was kind of busy with work stuff – I ended up having to run some numbers 🔢 after a work call 📞 then I got working on some edits to something else.

Like always I do like poking around those back country roads 🐮 and this time up at Rennselearville State Forest was no exception. First time I’ve been on Travis Hill in many years – still mostly just hunting camps up there. 🦌 A lot of changes to the tree cover at the state forest 🌲since I was last there with harvests.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 55 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 8th. Maximum dew point of 51 at 10pm. Light southeast wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph 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 45 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1964.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 22% illuminated. The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Sunday, September 27. The darkest hour is at 12:52 am, followed by dawn at 6:05 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:33 am in the east (84°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:11 am with sun in the east (90°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 23 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over last night.

This evening when I was at the folks house 🏡 I went online and increased my weekly average investments in adjustance to my increased pay as a supervisor. Investments are growing nicely although I’m not sure if I they are fully above the pre pandemic highs so far its been good times. 💵 Both retirement and mid term savings are growing 📈 and I’m getting closer to being able to afford the off-grid property in the 2030s and partial retirement to hobby farm – homestead in the 2040s. 🐐

I do need to make some hard decisions by the end of November 💰 because I expect to be retiring Big Red next fall and I may not want to renew all of my certificate of deposit if I need a new vehicle. 🚘 That said, I’ve put more money into regular savings going forward and less in the market because I’m starting to think that the stock market is getting way over valued with all the coronavirus stimulus. Interest rates – at 7/10th of a percent on savings sucks though as your almost paying the bank 🏦 for the privilege of holding your money. I don’t know if I want another car or truck but if I do I’ll probably look at something more economical to drive that uses less fuel ⛽ and spends less time at the shop. 🔧 Maybe a Prisus or a Tacoma.

I find motoring 🏁 incredibly stressful 😵 and I look and see how much damage driving 🚘 does to our communities. Cars have ruined our urban fabric and polluted the landscape with smoke, noise and acres of asphalt. They kill and mame many and are so expensive to drive and insure. 🚑 And they always break down 🔧 and make scary noises. But on the other hand, they are the best ways to escape cities to the mountains 🗻 and remote farm country. 🚜

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Morning shouldn’t be too bad though. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 10th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 4pm. South wind 9 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1948.

I am thinking tomorrow about hiking out to Five Rivers 🐦 in the morning before it gets all cloudy ⛅ and starts to rain ☔. I still need to keep working on the paper 📄 I’m editing and I have numbers 🔢 to crunch among other work projects this afternoon – and maybe some new blog content to do too.

In four weeks on October 10 the sun will be setting in the west (261°) at 6:20 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 10 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 69 and 49 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 62 and 41 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 1939.

Looking ahead, Columbus Day ⛵ 🍂 is a month away, Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 is in 5 weeks, Halloween 🦇 and the Blue Moon 🌕 is in 7 weeks, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 11 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 12 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 15 weeks, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 17 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 19 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 21 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 23 weeks, and Snow Moon 🌕 is in 24 weeks.