Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. 🐪 Six weeks to Flower Moon 🌻 . Partly sunny and 52 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 42 degrees. Nice morning, although a bit groggy as I recover from COVID vaccine number 2 and because I had trouble sleeping again last night.

The morning walk was quite pleasant 🏃 with lots of sun, and nothing more then a t-shirt 👕 needed for my walk. Going to cloud up later but for now it’s pretty nice and I might drive down to the library to work this afternoon. 💻 I could work from home but on nice days like this I prefer to be outside where I can get some fresh air and relax. And maybe work on my tan some more.

The second COVID-shot went well yesterday, 💉 and I should be done and fully-vaccinated, with full-immunity in two weeks. My arm and shoulder blade 💪 feels like I have been doing a lot of shooting my 12-gauge shotgun, 🔫 or maybe like I got bit by a tick have Lyme disease in the shoulder 🐜 but I’m sure it’s just the vaccine kicking in. I am working from home, have no Zoom Meetings today, so nobody will know if I look or feel like a wreck today. Maybe less shooting this weekend if my arm is so sore. Or maybe I’ll have to use my .22 which doesn’t kick like a mule.

Today will have a slight chance of rain after 3pm. Mostly sunny to start out the day 🌞, with clouds pushing in later ☁️ and a high of 70 degrees at 4pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 16th. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 83 was set in 1968. 1.4 inches of snow fell back in 1950.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 56.9° from the due south horizon (-13.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:59 pm with the sun in the west (278°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (284°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:36 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 8:05 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west (274°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 252,119 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:41 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 64 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain late, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 15th. Southeast wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1940.

Last night was really nice for sitting out back ✨ although as the evening progressed, things got more cloudy. 🌽 The air had a sweet smell of corn silage, 👃 like they had just cut into some fresh silage that were feeding to cows at the farm down the way. 🐮 The smell really reminded me of summer, with the cows grazing on the grass at the Finger Lakes National Forest.

Some are calling for a nice spring weekend on tap at least in Albany-area. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 54. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 60. More clouds up north, or maybe not depending on the model you look up. 🌦 Folks don’t really agree. 99% percent of forecasts are imaginary, up to random chance. Typical average high for the weekend is 59 degrees.

I am not sure if I will head north on Friday or Saturday, 🏕 a lot depends on the weather. I’d rather not be setting up camp in the pouring rain. 🌧 At least it looks like there won’t be much of a fire risk this weekend, so that’s good if I want to have a little campfire to stay warm 🔥 but I’ll also bring my heater too for warming my hands.

The first session of therapy went well, 💭 although mostly it was just an overview for intake purposes, understanding and discussing my issues. Listening to all the possible concerns and issues, legal and else-wise, I think I am glad I just have a little bit of anxiety, 😮 sometimes negative thought processes 😡 and a bit of pyromania when it comes to burn barrels 🛢 and the alike. Things could be a lot worse. 😩 All things that are curable with a little work on my part. I don’t want anything to get in my way of making more money, saving, investing and eventually owning my land. 🚜 One thing that kind of sucks that my next appointment is a week from 4 PM Friday, 📅 which means getting out of town to go camping might not be a reality, so it’s more important to plan to get out out of town this week if possible.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Cinco de Mayo 🤠 when the sun will be setting at 8:00 pm with dusk at 8:31 pm. On that day in 2020, we had sunny skies and temperatures between 59 and 38 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 66 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1944.