Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time Ends. Light rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. The dew point is 55 degrees. Today will get progessively wetter, but it won’t last for long with the skies clearing out tomorrow around 1 pm. Probably not a good day for your outdoor activities unless you like playing in the mud and muck. 

Light rain this morning, heavy rain this afternoon into the evening and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High of 67 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal. Maybe wet but not that cold. Maximum dew point of 59 at 1pm. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 1946. 3.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.

The sun will set at 5:51 pm with dusk around 6:20 pm, which is one minute and 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. At sunset, look for pouring rain and 66 degrees. The dew point will be 59 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low of 54 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal. Southeast wind around 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. In 2016, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.

Made some blueberry muffins from a mix I had bought for camping but it was pretty good. Only had one cup of coffee though as I’m a bit low on milk. I should run to the store and get some milk before it starts to rain too much. I usually just walk down to Stewarts which is around the corner. They have good milk prices and good milk. A lot of the local dairies produce the raw milk that is turned into Stewarts products.

Did some cleaning this morning and worked on some more maps and going through the photos from vacation. There is a lot more to check out, but I am getting there. I will probably upload a lot more photos this afternoon or evening. Depends somewhat on the weather. I don’t have any new photos from this weekend, so just more vacation photos. I took so many so it will take a while get through all of them.

Just mostly the usual. I really needed today to decompress from the road trip and continue to clean and put things away. I vacuumed the carpets, cleaned the kitchen counters, swept, reorganized the clothes a bit. I want to wash the kitchen floors shortly (a lot of mud got tracked in when unpacking the camping gear), the get the recycables out, wash more of the bathroom today.

I have go shopping. Lately I’ve been shopping at lot at Walmart but I feel like Shoprite or Hannaford is more economical. As werid as that sounds. Hannaford lately has had great prices on dry and canned goods. But the thing Iike about Walmart is their packaged meats and cheeses for sandwitches, while lower quality, do last a lot longer. I find when I get meat from the deli, it’s often getting moldy or dried out by the end of the work week for my Friday sandwitch. Biting into a moldy sandwitch is not how you want to do your Friday. Never had that problem with the Walmart stuff with more of the preservatives. As my inspection sticker expires Tuesday and I don’t want to drive until I get it serviced and inspected, I want to have everything I need for the week. I really don’t want to damage things further with that rattling shock aborber. It’s fine I almost never drive on the weekdays anywhere, and if I’m stuck in town next weekend that’s fine too. I need a break from my travels. If the weather is nice next weekend, I might walk out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. Always a nice walk and you see so much more when you don’t drive.

Tonight is Sunday dinner at the folks house. First time since Mom is back home from her sugerary. It will be good to see her, especially because that rehabilitation center she was at was a long haul, and I was gone last week. I am thinking of baking cookies. I will get them at the store.

Decided I am not going to have to take money out of savings to cover vacation. At least for now. It will all depend on what the November bills all come out to be. Hopefully the inspection and routine maintaince will be just routine and the noise I hear is just the loose shock absorber. I am hoping for a Good Black Friday sale so I can buy a 512 gigabyte SSD drive for my laptop, which will give me needed space with all the video I do and make it boot up and run applications much faster. Doesn’t look like it will be that difficult to install. I wanted to get an SSD drive when I bought the laptop, but all the models that I saw with SSD drives were either really overpriced or had shitty low-resolution screens which would suck with the map making I do.

I think Veterans Day this year is on a Friday so it will be a long weekend. Not sure where I will go, I have to consider my options more. Maybe the Western Catskills or the North Country. But only if the weather is nice. I don’t want to spend any more cold, wet days in the wilderness this year.

As previously noted, next Sunday is when Daylight Savings Time Ends when the sun will be setting at 4:42 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2016, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 57 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1994.