Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! ☺ Two weeks to Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭. Nice cutting torch in the emoji. That book 📙 I read 📖 on welding 🏗️ a few months ago was very interesting. Mostly sunny and 59 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 53 degrees.

Got to bed early 🛏 and I woke up quite early too. But that’s good it ensures that I can go for my morning walk 🚶🏻 before what appears to be a very busy day today at work. I didn’t even realize last night was the DNC speeches this morning as I was too busy reading that book on pig farming. 🐽 Understanding feed rations for hogs is probably far more important than whatever bull 🐂 Biden his Time or the Trumpster is rambling about.

I was annoyed that I am out of milk 🐮 again but I had enough for my coffee ☕ which was a little blacker than normal. 🖤I don’t do creamer or sugar or salt in my coffee but I do like milk on my coffee. I usually prefer my coffee cold this time of year – after sitting on the stove for a few days. I’m sure the mold growth adds flavor and is important for fighting off the Corona’s virus. 👾

Starting out as another autumn like morning but more heat will push in today 😰 and especially tomorrow. But fortunately tomorrow I’m planning to head out to Schoharie and spend some time at the Mine Kill Pool 🏊🏻‍♂️ before it’s done for the summer. The morning walk 🚶🏻 should be nice today.

I realize with two Zoom meetings 📹 today I’m going to have to shower 🚿 and shave and put on my politician’s suit 👔well at least my dress shirt and blazer. Otherwise with remote work nobody knows on the internet if you are dog 🐶.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 58 at 11am. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 85 degrees. Ditto. The record high of 98 was set in 1916.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 59.3° from the due south horizon (-11.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:11 pm with the sun in the west (281°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (287°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 8:17 pm, which is one minute and 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west (259°) at an altitude of 14° from the horizon, 226,696 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:55 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 58 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃, with a low of 58 degrees at 5am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 10pm. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1982.

On this day in 1959, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. I guess that makes Barack Obama a US Citizen. 🧓🏾Doesn’t matter neither President Trump or his fan club Q Annon would believe that as they think the former president is a child sex trafficker like their former buddy Jerry Espstein.

See, there is the evidence that I follow the news 📰 carefully, which isn’t quite true ever since my radio 📻 started giving me problems. Heck, I didn’t even realize that last night was Joe Biden’s speech 💬 at the DNC. I do remember listening 👂 to Barack Obama’s 2008 DNC speech up in that holler camping at Burnt Rossman ⛺ listening to 1010 Wins as that was the only channel I could get besides that very werid Christian Raddio station. I’ve listened to that station a bit and I can tell you I think 🤔 you’d have to spent too much time breathing in burnt plastic or smelling the chemicals in the sprayer tank 🚜 to get into it. But I respect folks belief and I totally get why folks want to live in the mountains ⛰ with their guns 🔫. Me too!

Tomorrow will have isolated showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 84 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 11am. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1916.

Looking ahead to Sunday, isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. 🌦️ Partly sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 65 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.

Yes, it looks like Sunday is going to be a hot one. 😰 But I figure it’s best to enjoy it as September is just around the corner 🍂and autumn is just over a month away – September 22nd. 🎃 All those moldy carved pumpkins for Halloween sitting on door steps just waiting to be tossed in the garbage, crush and preserved forever next to the crushed television 📺 set in the local mound. 🗑 I think when I own land I’d rather compost, feed them to chickens 🐔 or pigs 🐷 especially because I doubt moldy pumpkins would burn well in the burn barrel. 🔥

I am still hoping to get up to Piseco Powley Road ⛺ come mid September should Stratford get its bridge rebuilt by then. 🚧I heard they’re making progress but I’m taking a wait and see approach to hear when it will be open again. I want to cool off one more time at the Potholers before it gets super cold out and the road is closed for the winter.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 when the sun will be setting at 7:24 pm with dusk at 7:52 pm. Labor Day is very late this year – latest it can be due to the calendar 🗓. On that day in 2019, we had thunderstorm and temperatures between 80 and 59 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1929.