No rain yet, but it’s coming. Maybe snow by Sunday but I have my doubts. Tomorrow I decided I want to explore a few of the places on my list of potential properties, to see how they look from the road after the rain. And how muddy and rough the roads really are. Plus I like a good drive in the country, it gives me a chance to spot abandoned houses and properties that might be a potential option.
Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Cloudy and 40 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 11 pm. ☃️
Riding out to Five Rivers this morning. 🐦 I heard the red-winged black birds are back for the spring time. I haven’t heard the spring peepers 🐸 but others have reported that they are around, now that ice is off most of the lakes. Ride out along Meads Lane and say hi to the ladies, I mean the cows. 🐮
Making red lentil soup with lots of carrots and split peas for lunch. 🍲 Should be a delicious, warm meal. I have a feeling with the rain and relatively cool temperatures, it will be a cool afternoon. Plus the wind. Then I might go down to the library to work on a few things on my laptop 👨💻 before heading home, and doing some reading and watching videos on my phone. 📚
Today will rain, mainly after 2pm. 🌧 High of 43 degrees at 11am. Typical for today. Southeast wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 2016. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄
Yesterday was a great day 🚲 enjoyable both for riding in and out of work. 😎 It was so nice yesterday, it was kind of punishment to be in my office all day long. 👨💼 At least I had a nice lunch break riding around the Warehouse District and North Albany, along with a ride both ways. Figure do my riding early before the ran really settles in later on.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 43.1° from the due south horizon (-27.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:18 pm with the sun in the west (259°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (265°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:56 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:23 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:56 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 40 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the southeast. Today will have 11 hours and 41 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.
Started to look at businesses and contractors that build cabins locally both prefab and stick frame. 🛖 There is definitely options out there, people who you can pay to do quality work ⚒ and follow the state building code and keep the government workers happy. I also talked to one of my relatives about what kind of professional I need to analyze my tax situation as it relates to getting a mortgage vs paying with cash, 💰and she says I need to find a CPA 🧾who really knows state tax law to review my finances ⚖️ to get me the hard numbers 🧮 I need for a good decision.
My preference is cash but if that means giving the government a shit ton of extra money then I’ll reconsider. Capital gains tax is a bitch 🐩 and you can deduct mortgage interest payments from your income. I could live with a construction 🚧 or land loan 🐮 especially as I’m currently paying rent but won’t when I move. Honestly I’m not into pretty, rather spend more on land and look at plywood or unfinished plaster board for a while before I finish it. Plastic tubs work fine instead of cabinets. I’m taking it slow but I don’t want to lose progress.
One of the things I started to do was screenshot 📸 cabins and save pictures of set ups I really like size and property wise. Besides drawing, if I have a clipping book of my favorites — that I can print up — I can better show to people what my vision is for the property. I really don’t want fancy, I don’t want plastic, I want something basic, livable, legal, with the priority being on having acerage. Maybe some grass for livestock but I want to avoid mowing as much as possible.
Tonight will rain before 5am, then rain likely, possibly mixed with snow. 🌧 Low of 35 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Southeast wind 8 to 13 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2023, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1996.
Today in 1959, Barbie doll makes its debut 🚺 at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
One month 📅 from now will be 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 with dusk at 7:59 pm (Daylight Savings Time).