Good morning! Happy Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️! The mornings now are getting progressively darker but after today we will start adding a few seconds then in a few weeks a minute each day to our evening. But tonight is expected to be pretty dark with the rain coming. 💦

I had a really nice breakfast 🍳 with a quiche made of eggs, hash, cheese and broccoli. I have to say it was good. Still have more in the fridge for dinner. 🥶 Chilled off quickly before refrigeration in the snow bank outside.♨ This way I didn’t waste electricity. Honestly, people should use the cold weather more often to keep food cold and frozen — but in our modern world — folks are lazy and use their refrigerators in their heated homes.🔌

Only a little over a week more on the doxycline. 💊 I wouldn’t mind it so much but sometimes taking the pill in the morning can make me a bit sick on an empty stomach like the doctor suggests. But I think most of the signs of the Lyme are gone, 🐜 although I did feel a bit stiff in the knees yesterday after skiing.

Cloudy, somewhat damp and 36 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ☁ I hope you have your umbrella with you, you’ll need it later. ☔ There is a south breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 12 inches of snow on the ground but it’s melting fast with the warm dampness in the air. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 10 pm. ☃️

Today will rain, mainly after 10am. Patchy fog between 10am and 2pm. 🌧 High of 43 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 26th. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Not a big rain storm 💦but it will contribute to a burn down of the snow especially with even warmer weather tomorrow. Kind of a gray misty December day that is common this time of year. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1966. 7.3 inches of snow fell back in 2009.❄

The sun will set at 4:21 pm with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is one second earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, mainly before 3am. 🌧 Low of 43 degrees at 6pm, pushing fifty by day break. 21 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 4th. That should save on the heat for a change. South wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of -4 occurred back in 1902.

I fixed the glitch in the mobile version of the blog, 📱 now I think it’s working pretty good. All it took was a change of one or two lines on the blogs code to make it perfect.

Today in 1958, the John Birch Society is founded. Businessman and founder Robert W. Welch Jr. (1899–1985) developed an organizational infrastructure in 1958 of chapters nationwide. 🐘 After an early rise in membership and influence, efforts by those such as conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and National Review led the JBS to be identified as a fringe element of the conservative movement, mostly in fear of the radicalization of the American right.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 🙁 Saturday, a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 36 degrees.

Next Monday is Tea Party Day 🐍. The day that only is kind of vaguely referenced in that Don’t Tread on Me Flag 🚩 that I have, that I believe basically means I should be allowed to burn whatever noxious garbage I want, own lots of guns, hunt, fish, junk cars and machinery and own and slaughter whatever stinky farm animals I want on my land. 🐮 Basically, a redneck. But actually that foggy 🌁 winter day when they dumped tea 🍵 from West Indies into the Boston harbor ⚓ where they still enjoy the dirty water but probably not from the tea which had long rotted away. At least it was source seperated organic waste 🐽, something you can’t say about the pollutants dumped into the ocean today. 🌊 Probably a lot like today with fewer sewer overflows.

Looking ahead for our nation’s pork 🐖 producers, not talking about the Albany, there are 3 weeks until Bacon Day 🥓 when the sun will be setting at 4:30 pm with dusk at 5:02 pm. I can smell the fermented grain and pig 🐽 shit. On that day in 2018, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 23 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1984.