Good evening! Mostly clear and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. Warm enough evening, I decided to fire up the fan. ⚛
Not a half bad Tuesday with lots of meetings and fun stuff to do. 🌲🌲🌲🌲 Hiked in the Pine Bush for a couple of hours including after dark and went to a socially distant outdoors meeting.
Been a little achy this evening. 😧 Not sure what the issue is but its not that bad. Feels a little like chronic Lyme a bit but maybe I’m just cranky that I’m back home. But I had that Pine Bush meeting to attend so that was good.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 60 degrees at 5am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 20th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 10pm. South wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1938.
Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 62% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:33 pm. The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Wednesday, September 23. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 6:01 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:29 am in the east (82°) and last for 2 minutes and 56 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:06 am with sun in the east (88°).Tonight will have 11 hours and 12 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 82 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 9th. Maximum dew point of 64 at 11am. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1959.
In four weeks on October 6 the sun will be setting in the west (263°) at 6:27 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 28 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 65 and 41 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 64 and 43 degrees. The record high of 90 degrees was set back in 1900.
Looking ahead, Autumn 🍂 is in 2 weeks, Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ is in 8 weeks, Election Day 2019 🗳️ is in 8 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 9 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is in 10 weeks, December 🎄 is in 12 weeks, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 14 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 15 weeks, Cold Moon 🌕 is in 16 weeks, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 17 weeks, Bubble Bath Day 🧼 is in 4 months, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 20 weeks and Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 21 weeks.
Client emails me with a question. Landlord texts me a second time wondering why I’ve ignored his text about the driveway getting sealed next week. Dozens of unimportant or non pressing emails in my inbox. And of course the social media accounts annoyed that I’m not actively on them this weekend – you have 28 notifications on Twitter and 44 unread notifications on Facebook.
Great. I think I will just have to ignore them for now, no matter how addictive that witty response to that Facebook comment may be.
Honestly, I would have probably ignored them all had it not been a busy time at work. I know I’m annoyed when people don’t respond quickly to my calls. But cellphone service is very spotty up here in the wilderness. But then again it’s nice to not be connected every minute of every day.
Some further thoughts about the presidential race 8⃣ weeks out …
Donald Trump is incompetent and probably quite corrupt. He’s a buffoon but that’s hardly news to anyone. He’s the Trumpster. People like the man a lot, especially hillbilly hicks I idolize that shovel pig and horse manure, burn their own trash out back and own all the guns I wish to own myself someday. Backwoods Pennsylvania where shit is real.
Joe Biden is biding his time, for like it or not it’s his own time. Trump’s incompetence is finally coming to a roost. With all of Biden’s experience in Washington DC as decades of being a member of the nation’s most exclusive club, the US Senate, he’s certain to be a power broker. That certainly concerns me, and I do hope if he’s elected president that the senate remains in GOP hands and remains a brake on progress that could harm those communities not represented by the Democratic Coalition. A Biden presidency might be good at chopping down the deficit if the Republicans say no to everything and Biden says no to more defense spending.
Third party candidates are more of an interest to me. I have reservations about Howie Hawkens from decades ago when he was very actively pushing the restrictions on open burning that I don’t like. But I do like the idea of more citizens involvement in democracy and I do think the Green Party comes from an honestly good place. It’s a good protest vote. It’s not like me, the humble boy from the sticks voting in the presidential election in New York is going to change anything, so I might as while protest. I voted Green in 2016.
The there is Jo Jorgensen the Libertarian Candidate. She seems kind of cool even if I think she’s nuts on many things. I don’t think we can frack or drill our way to sustainably. Climate change is real, it’s caused by billions of people. But it’s not like she’s going to get elected so any one position of hers doesn’t matter. She certainly would be a good protest vote, especially on the second amendment and police reform – and just more generally getting the government off our backs. I did vote for that colorful but less than memorable libertarian who ran for governor in 2018.
So gawd I don’t know. I do know my absentee ballot will arrive in a few weeks and I have choices and I’m no real fan of Trump and the Republican Party but I’m willing to keep an open mind. 🤯
