Good evening! Rain and 43 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 2 am. ☃️

I ended up running to the bank 🏦 and tonight to deposit my paycheck, return beer cans 🍻 and get food and supplies for camping. 🛒 I also picked clear plastic bags for recycling ♻ and another propane lantern. 🏮 I’m going to part out my current one, because the globe alone costs $11 and I’m sure I’ll need one from that in the future and by the time I were to replace the plugged regulator it probably would have cost more than buying new. 🛠 I do plan to use this new lantern on the spare Big Buddy filter I have to hopefully stop issues with it getting plugged.

Honestly, I didn’t want to go shopping tonight 🏧 but I got my paycheck today in the mail ✉ and I needed to deposit it right away because it’s the end of the month and I have a lot of bills coming due on Friday. Plus my renters insurance is due, so it’s $1,750 due soon including automatic investments and savings withdrawals and without the paycheck in the bank it could be very tight. I make good money 💵 but the more I make the more that gets invested or spent. My checking account is often paycheck to paycheck. I hope next pay period I’ll have direct deposit back. 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Usually this is a bad night with the crowds at the store but this time it was relatively empty.

I have all the food 🍲 and supplies I need for camping 🏕. I’m leaving for the Adirondacks come Saturday. Where exactly I’ll go I’m a bit undecided although it looks like a mild and pleasant weekend. Probably not too remote in case I run into snow or ice 🌨 up north. Never got to the library 📚 to get books but I have some I can bring from home 🏡 and I’ll have lots of podcasts I’ll download tomorrow.

Tonight will rain. Patchy fog after midnight. 🌧 Low of 42 degrees at 12am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 9th. Southeast wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mist in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1938.

Lately I’ve been sleeping 😴 better. I’ve been trying hard to retire early each night and keep my bedroom dark. 💊 I forgot to get sleeping pills again but I am trying to get away from taking so many these days if I can avoid them. Also trying to use a lot of dim red light in my bedroom. Camping in the Adirondacks also always seems to improve my sleep.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 84% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south-southwest (208°) at an altitude of 47° from the horizon, some 251,585 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 June 4^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Monday, November 30. The darkest hour is at 11:44 pm, followed by dawn at 6:29 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:01 am in the east-southeast (118°) and last for 3 minutes and 18 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:44 am with sun in the southeast (126°). Tonight will have 14 hours and 35 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 41 seconds over last night.

Thanksgiving Day 🦃 will have showers likely, mainly between 9am and 11am. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 58 degrees at 3pm. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 21st. Maximum dew point of 52 at 1pm. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light drizzle in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 67 was set in 1979. 9.6 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

Heading out to the folks house for Thanksgiving tomorrow. 🦃 I am lucky that they are close and we will have a socially distant meal 🍴 with everybody spread out in the living room. Not sure how many more visits though after this one if the COVID lock downs restart.

In four weeks on December 23 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (238°) at 4:26 pm,🌄 which is 53 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny weather and temperatures between 50 and 18 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 33 and 19 degrees. The record high of 64 degrees was set back in 1990.

Looking ahead, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 2 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 3 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 4 weeks, Christmas 🎅 is a month away, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 5 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 7 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 8 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 2 months, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 11 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 12 weeks.