Good evening! Partly clear and 46 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. It’s a nice moonlit night 🌃 and with lots of stars ✨ and not too cold. It is That said, with the breeze it’s cold out back and I think I’ll retire to bed shortly where it’s warmer.

It was a nice day for a Hump Day. 🐪 I haven’t been following Homesteady on YouTube to see if they have any more of their cammel dairy videos, although they still have their Jerseys too. 🐮 Camel milk apparently is good for children and their nursing mothers who are allergic to cows milk. Need a special stall a camels aren’t shaped like cows, even though they have four quarters and teats like cows. Great YouTube channel though.

Another pretty quiet day at work, and I worked from either outside or in my truck all afternoon. 💻 I think people were impressed by me in the Zoom meeting from my backyard with the trees, the High School and the Heldebergs in the background. Even though my apartment isn’t very nice there is a lot to be said about where I live in Delmar. I’ll probably stay here until I leave the state for good, I just can’t imagine buying land in New York.

Maybe it’s because I know how the sausage 🍣are made. Yeap, they grind up all the low desirability cuts of meat to tenderize it, use part of the intestines for the casing. That book 📙 I read some ago on butchering was fantastic. Sounds gross but then you realize it’s just a mixture of grass and fermented corn silage the cows been eating all day. Almost all corn silage 🌽 are and the majority of hay fed to cows is produced on the farm where they’re raised in New York State, although sometimes other grains like corn itself are purchased. But that’s beyond the point, I was in Clarksville today and it got me thinking about it all. At least I got paid on Tuesday unlike state employees or the many non essential employees they have been laid off during Coronavirus. For that I can thank my lucky stars. 🌟

I decided after going out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center to hike Bennett Hill again. 🚶 It was a nice evening up on Bennett Hill but it got cloudy ⛅ later on. A lot of people up there again, which is annoying because I really take serious being at 10 or more feet away from people – or even further in physical distancing, as the term is. I’ve noticed the last two times I’ve been up there it’s been super clear – I think the reduced haze is from less air pollution due to fewer drivers and businesses being open. That certainly is the case in Los Angeles. Then I came home and went for my evening 🌃 walk on this very moonlit evening.

Five Rivers was nice – spring peepers are out in force around Skeeter Pond.🐸 I got a whole lot of podcasts and videos to listen to next few days on the exercise bike or elsewhere. My neighbor has been gone all day – he works shift work, I wonder if he’s a nurse or involved in the Coronavirus response. I also got a text saying that my phone plan is giving me an extra 10 gigabytes monthly through the end of May, so I can use over a gigabyte of high speed data each day or 35 gigabytes per 30 days. Kind of nice to not have to worry about bandwidth so much on my phone not having internet at home.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 34 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 6th. North wind 7 to 10 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 22 degrees. The record low of 17 occurred back in 1964. I’m hoping at this point the heat can be off until November.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 58% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southwest (222°) at an altitude of 66° from the horizon, some 234,681 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 September 26^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 Being relatively close to the earth its quite bright. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 1:00 am, followed by dawn at 6:09 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:38 am in the east (83°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:15 am with sun in the east (89°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 12 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 53 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 3rd. Northwest wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. I think the morning is supposed to be better with clouds by afternoon. I have the work laptop so I won’t have to go to the library or Five Rivers for work stuff, and I have plenty of podcasts and videos to watch at home if I want. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 2010. 8 inches of snow fell back in 1924.❄

I‘ve decided this weekend is a good one to stay in town for but assuming that the weather is nice for the long Easter weekend 🐰I am still thinking about 3 nights in the Adirondacks leaving Thursday after work or maybe actually jotting out a bit early. I doubt where I am I’ll see any one else. Do some hiking and fishing 🎣, making sure to stay six feet or even further AWAY. ☺ Still some snow up north but not a lot and I expect it to continue melting next week.

Continuing on and off to work on the updated blog theme. 📝 It’s a work in progress with many parts unfinished but it will focus on being more of an immersive full screen experience like some of those popular photo blogs. 📷 Maybe I won’t adopt the new theme, I’m not sure but I have the time to work on it, although soon my work load will pick back up – but in the meantime I’m still saving a lot of time by not having the commute or ironing shirts 👚 or getting prepared for work each day and leaving at a set time.

From time to time I see the advertisement for Northwood Mapping a business out of Wisconsin which does professional mapping for land owners and hunters. 🌐 He has some interesting products for sure, stuff I could probably do myself and have printed professionally – the thing is print shop costs aren’t cheap and it’s tough making it self employed. Folks do it like Lynne Jackson from Save the Pine Bush but it ain’t easy. Remarkably expensive to run a business. At any rate it doesn’t hurt to hone my mapping skills🗾 and continue to get my name out there with the blog.

In four weeks on April 29 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (291°) at 7:53 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 51 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies for a while than rain showers and temperatures between 58 and 31 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 64 and 42 degrees. The record high of 88 degrees was set back in 1888.

Looking ahead, Pink Moon 🌕 is in 1 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 2 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 3 weeks, May 🕊 is a month away, June 🍹 is in 2 months, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 12 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 42 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 50 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸