Good morning! Happy Saturday. It’s the weekend! 🚜 The Gas Up is going this weekend, not sure if I will go, I used to go a lot when I was young with my grandpa. Putt, putt bang. Maybe tomorrow. Six weeks to Strugeon Moon 🌕 . Rain and 58 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 56 degrees. The skies will clear around noontime.

Finally caught up on sleep yesterday 😴, sleeping a good portion of the day before and after seeing my therapist. While it’s an expense – $25 copay a, session I think I’m learning a lot. It’s really helpful in making some important life decisions now that I’m getting mid-age. We’ve been doing a lot of talk lately about relationships and the benefits to settling down. 👨‍⚕️I am getting a little tired of cost of sometimes that uncomfortable questions and topics of discussion, but I think things are better then were a few months back — but maybe it’s also because the windows are open and I’ve been spending more time in the woods. 🌲 🌲

Today will be scattered showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 76 degrees at 5pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 4th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 10am. Light southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 2017.

I decided this morning to walk 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers and catch the summer nature bus service 🚍 out to Thacher Park. 🏞 It’s a great, free way to get to Thacher Park without any worries about speed traps, parking meters or additional carbon emissions. Plus I want to support the nature service so it continues. I figure it’s free service plus the walk out to Five Rivers is healthy to boot. I am thinking I might make this a regular thing, especially on weekends when I am in town. Why go just to Five Rivers when I can catch a free bus out to Thacher Park? 🌲🌳 Plus I’m just exhausted — I don’t want to drive — been a busy week for sure.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.6° from the due south horizon (-0.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:52 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:34 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:08 pm, which is 31 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (290°) at an altitude of 16° from the horizon, 245,733 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:54 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 70 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 57 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. Light south wind. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1974.

On this day in 1967, the United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 😍 This decision helped to lead to the gay marriage decision many years later. 🌈 I think it makes sense to allow people to marry whoever they want. I’ve also been doing a lot of thought about loving and things like that.

My therapist and I were having a long chat about my future. 👨‍⚕️ He made a very good point that maybe I should think about settling down a bit in my life and finding a girl friend. It would have a lot of benefits both to my mental health and my life more general. Couples have much more stable relationships, they can provide somebody to fall back on, talk, share in chores and responsibilities. 🚜 🐐 The idea of having a homestead is a lot more difficult on one’s own. Let the girl have her horseys, 🐴 as long as I can have my burn barrel and guns and goats and pigs for meat. 🐷 From financial stability to help doing chores to concerns about automobile breakdowns, there is a lot of benefits to having a committed relationship.

Plus my therapist says I should really get out of city more 👩‍🌾 and try to meet and hang out with people that I am more interested in having a relationship with be it a love one or otherwise. It’s great to watch homesteading videos on interwebs or participate in off-grid groups, but the best way to do things is to make physical connections, be it attending meetings, events, conventions, or get together. 👥 The internet is fine, but you loose a lot without the physical connections to others, the emotions, the feels, the sounds and the smells are just lost over the interweb. 🏘 I don’t always agree with everything he says, I do like how he gives a lot of practical advice and a

As previously noted, next Saturday is Average High is 80 🏖 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot, partly cloudy and temperatures between 88 and 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1995.