Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Three weeks to Constitution Day 📜. We will be well into September at that point. Partly sunny and 56 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 54 degrees.

I stayed overnight at my parents house last night with the dog 🐶 out back. I forgot how noisy their cows are, bellowing morning and night. 🐮 Rooster 🐓 too. They don’t have the donkey anymore though it seems. It’s nice being back at my parents house, but I still prefer to be out in the wilderness camping, and I’m not crazy about driving back and forth to work.

Slept well though, 😴 as I took a sleeping pill and was asleep by 9:30 PM. I also got up bright and early, I had coffee on the camp stove by 6:30 AM. Cold but sunny this morning. Lately I’ve not been sleeping well — but this seemed to help.

I love the country life 🚜 but high priced, high regulation New York is not for me. So I rent and save for now. My parents have way too much house and too little land and if I owned land I’d want to be able burn my own trash 🔥 and have enough land that livestock wouldn’t necessarily be right up against my house making noise and smelling like hog manure 🐷and I could shoot my guns without bothering people. 🔫Kind of like camping in the back country. I’m still so fascinated by Missouri and the south.

Driving in today I noticed that the transfer case was stuck in Auto 4×4 mode 🔘the with Service 4 WD on dash but after restarting the truck it cleared out. I hope this isn’t an issue now that the mornings are colder and damper. If it is I’ll have to get it fixed. 😯 I just don’t want to have problems on my West Virginia trip. Maybe its something simple I can fix like that brake switch I replaced myself in the spring. Or maybe it will go away. Tonight I won’t leave the truck parked in Auto 4×4, in case the dew and cold and causing problems with the shift position sensor.

Ended up having to run home and get changed after I discovered that I had a stain on the shirt 👚 I was wearing. Such a damn messy eater and I eat too much pasta. 🍲Soon most days though I’ll be wearing long sleeve shirts. Autumn🍂 is right around the corner. Looking forward to wearing my Carharrt vest again! I got my hunting license, I’m ready for Sunday.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 77 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 1st. Maximum dew point of 56 at 10am. South wind 3 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1948.

The sun will set at 7:37 pm with dusk around 8:06 pm, which is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 62 degrees at 5am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 58 at 4am. South wind around 7 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 75 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1982.

Today in 1859, Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well. ⛽ To this day, that town still smells like petroleum, and it floats in the creeks, but they produce much less oil today then at the peak around the turn of the century.⚫ That said, it’s really good quality crude and still used for some of the finest lubricants out there.

A picture perfect Labor Day Weekend to end out summer. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Maximum dew point of 57 at 6am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 74. Maximum dew point of 57 at 7pm. Labor Day will have a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

I have to see about taking Friday off but I have to find coverage and need to get my mail plans done by then. ✉ I guess I could take off Friday and then come on a few hours on Friday if necessary or stay a little late on Thursday. I probably wouldn’t head out of town until Friday morning, just late enough to avoid the holiday traffic. 🚙

I’m leaning towards heading back to Speculator Tree Farm and hiking back to some of the ponds 🌲in the West Canada Wilderness from the big open campsite I enjoy. But I could also do Pisceo-Powley Road or Kelley Stand Vermont. It would be nice to get away for one last week of summer when there still is a fair amount of light in the evening. ⛺

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Constitution Day 📜 when the sun will be setting at 7:01 pm with dusk at 7:29 pm. On that day in 2018, we had humid, mostly sunny, warm, mist and temperatures between 82 and 67 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 72 degrees. We hit a record high of 89 back in 1942.