Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. It’s Earth Week, a day where they celebrate spring tillage 🚜 and that earthy smell of freshly tiled earth, diesel smoke and cow manure. 💩 And rolling coal, 🛻 along with politicians lying about how they plan to save the earth 🌎 by allowing polluters to pollute more and covering the earth with cadmium-infused glass. 🏭 Four weeks to Average High is 70 🐮. June is dairy month, although we reach the 70s by mid-May, although the cows like that. Partly sunny and 43 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. 😎 Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 3 am. ☃️

Cold start to the morning 🌅 although that’s kind of my fault as I like sleeping with the windows open, so it feels more like January in my apartment then late April. But that’s fine, I’m enjoying my morning walk before work. 🚶I just sleep so much better with the windows open 🔳 breathing in the fresh air and diesel smoke. Lol. I remember when I had that neighbor with that big throaty diesel that would rumble each morning before he left for his construction 🚧 worker 👷 job. Basically truck porn 🛻. I did sleep like a baby so no complaints there. 👶 Probably because I whine so much there days on the blog.

Today will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 25th. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1976. 8.8 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

Such a nice morning ☀ that I really should work down at library today 🖥 but I don’t think the nice weather is expected to last much longer into the afternoon with rain ☔ showers pushing in. I have fair amount of bandwidth to use up by Friday so it’s not really necessary. At least wherever I work — at least for the morning, I can enjoy the fresh air and sunlight.

I keep watching for changes to bus schedules 🚍 as an early indicator when to when work will be returning to downtown. 🚏I feel like they will be restoring commuter service about the time they reopen the state buildings downtown 🏢. Still the park and ride sits abandoned but maintained in pristine condition 13 months into the pandemic. At this point, like so many people I have very mixed emotions about returning back to the downtown office. 🏙 After all we’ve built such a remote work 💻 infrastructure. 💉 Come a week from Wednesday, it will be two weeks since my last COVID-19 shot so I am pretty unlikely to pick up COVID, at least not severe COVID-19, although I’m sure it will be many more months of mask wearing 😷 at least on public transit and in places where people can’t keep 6 feet apart.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 58.7° from the due south horizon (-12.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:04 pm with the sun in the west (280°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (286°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:42 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 8:11 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (221°) at an altitude of 68° from the horizon, 242,820 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:48 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 58 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 35 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Cut my hair 💇🏻‍♂️ and sideburns yesterday, as I wanted to be cooler and cleaner with summer coming around. I have that hair trimmer which works pretty good job. The hat fits better 🧢 and the hair won’t get so matted with mud and sweat up at camp. ⛺

Been continuing to monitor my bank accounts 💳 to watch for any fraudulent activity but I don’t see any but I’m hoping that those attempted $1 charges drop off it and the problem is over. I don’t want to have to order yet another card from the bank. I really can’t figure out what happened, as I’ve not done any Internet or phone purchases, and everything else has been dip-style purchases with the secure chip that doesn’t pass your credit card number through the machine. Maybe I have to tape something over card number from watching cameras, or I guess something could have read the strip even on the dip machine. 🤪 PARANOIA! I just hate dealing with coins 💵 and exact change, after all these years of swipes.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃, with a low of 42 degrees at 3am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 28th. Should be a decent evening once the rain showers pass this afternoon. South wind around 5 mph. In 2020, we had light drizzle in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1875.

Weekend forecast looks pretty decent for late April. ☺ Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Maximum dew point of 38 at 8pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 62 degrees.

I really think this will be the weekend I make it to the Adirondacks. 🏕 It certainly might be a nice weekend up north. I might then head out to Central New York in the following weeks, just because there isn’t as likely to have black flies every where. Depending on the status of remote work come May, I might go out there for a week. I think working down by Seneca Lake with my laptop could be quiet pleasant, doing some camping up in the National Forest. 🌲 I know, just wishful thinking. But I spent a lot of time last summer working from shore of Lake Pleasant and that dock on Sacanadaga Riverwalk. 📱 Still undecided if I will drive up on Friday or Saturday. I noticed they’ve raised the price on pre-treated safe and legal firewood at Stewarts, but maybe I can find a pallet in town I can chop up and burn, and use my magnet to pick out any nails from the fire pit. 🔥 🧲

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Pack Rat Day 🐀 when the sun will be setting at 8:13 pm with dusk at 8:45 pm. By then the greenies’ burn ban will be over, so when you do your clean outs in country, make sure to pile enough pallets and try not to burn too much noxious rubber or PVC products. 🔥 How much a different world it could have been had not that redneck been burning garbage upwind of a former Governor and high-price John’s country home in Columbia County. 🛢 On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 2017.