Good evening! Clear and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Cool but pretty clear on this late September night 🌃. Went for an evening walk 🚶 but I decided to lay inside on the bed, 🛏 because it wasn’t warm enough to sit out back. Wouldn’t be bad with a sweater, next to the fire though.

After coming home from Black Creek Marsh Wildlife Management Area I ended up deciding on going out to Bennett Hill ⛰️ for a hike in Clarksville. Always kind of a fun hike but lately it’s been so crowded there since the growing popularity of all outdoors activities since the pandemic started. 🐮 Always fun seeing the cows there and the views – especially of Wolf Hill 🐺 are always nice. I’ll leave Partridge Run for a nice autumn day for hiking with lots of blaze orange and a gun in sling.

Went out to my parents house 🏡 and we had Stuffed Peppers 🍲 which is always really good when the peppers are fresh. 🫑 It was good seeing them and I did my wash out there so I don’t have to do it this week at the laundromat. 👚

Tonight will have patchy frost after 4am. Otherwise, clear 🌃, with a low of 33 degrees at 5am. 17 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 9th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1973.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 17% illuminated. The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Thursday, October 1. The darkest hour is at 12:50 am, followed by dawn at 6:14 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:42 am in the east (88°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:19 am with sun in the east (94°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 46 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have areas of frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 10th. Light north wind. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.

Continuing to upload pictures 🖼 to the blog, but I had to stop mid-day as I discovered a problem with the photo uploader, which ran out of ID allocations and then permissions — a code issue that I have finally fixed. 💻 That said, I thought I had fixed that issue months ago but that wasn’t the case. 😕Also have some new content for this week that I will be posting as the week progresses.

Still haven’t put the new battery 🔋 in the laptop, but hopefully I’ll have some downtime this week but I have busy week on tap.

I finally checked the oil in the truck, and it wasn’t too bad.🫖 Added a quarter of a quart of oil, but it was well within the normal range, but this should keep it good for a few weeks. I realized I hadn’t checked it since the last oil change in July, before vacation.

I am watching the forecast but I’m thinking of heading up to the Adirondacks this weekend, if the forecast remains true. But I am sure by the weekend, things will change and it will be pouring rain for most of the week.

In four weeks on October 18 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (257°) at 6:07 pm,🌄 which is 47 minutes and 51 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 52 and 41 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 59 and 39 degrees. The record high of 84 degrees was set back in 2016.

Looking ahead, Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆 is in 2 weeks, November 🥧 is in 6 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 11 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 11 weeks, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 15 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 4 months, Valentines Day ❤️ is in 21 weeks and 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 5 months.