Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Six weeks to November 🥧. It will be here before you know it. Mostly sunny and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.

Today will have patchy dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 7th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.

The sun will set at 6:57 pm with dusk around 7:25 pm, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 54 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 11th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 11pm. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1973.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 23rd. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.

Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. 🌞Maximum dew point of 61 at 8pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees.

Tonight I’ll load the kayak on my truck 🚤and load my gear for camping ⛺ as I have to get an early start for the Pine Bush Birds the Word Hike tomorrow. 🐦 That hike starts at eight at the Discovery Center. I’m debating between paddling in the Mohawk River tomorrow near Moss Island or Stewart Landing tomorrow then the potholers on Sunday. I forgot to get propane tank filled but I’m hopeful I will have enough for tomorrow, otherwise it will be a campfire breakfast. 🛢️ I think the tank still has a pound or two left in it, but it definitely should be filled before vacation.

So I got these black boots 👢 because that’s what they had in my size and I figured that they wouldn’t show the mud and muck so much. But now that I think about it some more, I’m sure the salt will show up. The other advantage is they will polish well with the same black shoe paint I use with my dress shoes. Not sure if I really care for the style but I’m sure with the salt and all the hiking I do they’ll probably only last until spring. Might look really nice with khakis for work. I don’t really care that much about style, it’s different. Change is tough.

I repotted one of the spider plants 🌾in my office that has long struggled. Maybe root rot or maybe I over fertilized it. Four out of the five plants are doing well, two of them I gave away. Hoping to pot up two or three more next year so we can have greenery in every window in our office. 🏢 Makes the bleakness of the winter much nicer.

I’m thinking 💭 about doing a side trip down to MacDowell County, WV after visiting New River Gorge. As you may know that’s where Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty started. I’ve heard it’s not changed much over the years. 🏠 I thought originally about going down to Hazard, Kentucky but I think that’s too far out of the way to just drive through and stop and grab a picture. I’d rather have an excuse to visit an area beyond just visiting a hick town.

Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until November 🥧 when the sun will be setting at 5:48 pm with dusk at 6:18 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 59 and 48 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.

November is actually my favorite season of the year. 🦌 It’s time a before the snow is usually on the ground, but the leaves are off the trees and the skies often are quite blue. The air is crisp, the nights are cool and long. Big game season opens in the Southern Zone, Thanksgiving rolls around. 🦃 It’s the month before winter really gets underway most years.