Good evening! Clear and 45 degrees in Westerlo. Calm wind. Sleeping out in the truck cap for the first time this year. Nice night, enjoying the fresh air. 💨Still a bit congested and horse and sun burnt from earlier today but other than that things are good. Forgot how much the truck cap bounces around when you are sleeping in it.

Tonight will be clear 🌃 , with a low of 32 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal. Light northwest wind. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1975.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 54% illuminated. The moon will set at 2:40 am. The Flower Moon🌕 is on Saturday night with showers is likely. The sun will rise at 6:02 am with the first light at 5:32 am, which is one minute and 31 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 14 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 38 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞 , with a high of 66 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 70 degrees. The record high of 87 was set in 2007. 2.4 inches of snow fell back in 1956.❄

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Typical average high for the weekend is 64 degrees. I’m thinking it will be nice hopefully for the Pine Bush hike I’m leading this weekend.🌲

I was reading that the Great River Sweep Clean Up is on May 5th that Riverkeeper puts on every year.🚤 I saw a lot of Earth Day clean up around. I guess it’s good to reduce litter. I kind of want to get away that weekend to camp and fish, maybe for an extended weekend, but I might change my mind to do that. ⛺ Weather may decide for me.

Didn’t make any progress on my electronics projects this weekend because I’ve been busy with work and kind of sick. 🔬 Maybe next week. I kinda want to have a display built for home like I have for the office.

One of my followers wrote me asking why money is always so tight for me and always looking for ways to stretch the budget.💸 I’m still thinking about an expanded essay on this topic, but simply said when you reach your mid 30s tough decisions about your retirement have to be made if you want to be able to afford a decent final years. I’m young enough that investments still have a few years to grow. But 65 is coming fast. With social security and pensions on the chopping block, I’m all the more concerned. Plus I want to have the money eventually to afford land and an off grid cabin to live, in a low tax high freedom state.🏡 While saving now may not give me immediate pleasure dreaming does. Once you pay for those things what is left over ain’t much.

In four weeks on May 20 the sun will be setting at 8:16 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 19 seconds later then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 68 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 71 and 48 degrees. The record high of 91 degrees was set back in 1962.

Looking ahead, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 3 weeks, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 2 months, Fathers Day 👨 is in 8 weeks, Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥 is in 28 weeks, Veterans Day (Sunday) 🇺🇸 is in 29 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 7 months and First Sunday of Advent ✝ is in 32 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 32 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸