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October 5, 2015 morning

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Good morning, Happy Monday. Currently 41 degrees and mostly cloudy with a few breaks of blue skies. Looking for 64 degrees and more sun later. This evening is expected to be in the 50s and clear with a low of 43. Looking at 6:30 for the sunset and if you’re up early tomorrow morning, you’ll see the Waxing Crescent Moon.

This morning on break I will call around about getting my tires rotated and hopefully I can get that done on Tuesday or Wednesday so I can check that off my list. I keep working on packing and preparing for next week’s adventure.

Because I’m driving all the way out to the southern portion of the Allegheny National Forest on the first day, I need to get an early of a start as possible, which for me means shooting for leaving at 8 AM and being on the road no later than 9 AM. This gives time for occasional stops along the road but still be at camp no later than 5 PM. Sunday’s trip to West Virginia is somewhat shorter but that is good because I don’t know the area and with the best of maps and GPS I’m prone to get lost or the campsites not working out as expected.

October 1, 2015 morning

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Good morning on this October morning. Cool around 49 degrees and cloudy. Pretty typical for October weather in Albany. The air walking down to the bus stop has a slight sweet smell of manure, the farmer down the road must have recently chopped the corn silage and is now fertilizing their fields. Smells like fall.

The windows are closed in my apartment for the first time since last springtime. Chilly morning but I guess that is to be expected this time of year. October has a lot of cool morning and often rainy and cloudy days. But when it’s nice, it can be quite nice.

Today will be heading up to around 60 degrees with some clearing in the afternoon but clouds will predominant the sky. Ditto for Friday and the weekend, however a greater chance for rain come the weekend.

Decided I need to get a better map of Virginia before my trip. A state map is fine for George Washington National Forest as I can mark campgrounds myself on it and most of the National Forest is narrow enough to be not far from a major highway. I could use my phone GPS but it doesn’t always work where service is unreliable – and a map can be hard to read on a small screen. I have an atlas of the United States with each page or two having state naps but I need a little more details.

September 29, 2015 morning

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Kind of a dark and dreary Tuesday in Albany. At 69 degrees and a dewpoint at the same level, we feel fairly warm. It will climb to 76 degrees by 1 PM and drop through the afternoon, hitting 64 by 7 PM and heading back to 70 by midnight.

I hope you brought a raincoat or umbrella to work for this afternoon. While this morning is largely rain free, showers are expected today and heavy rain around rush hour. Take it easy on afternoon commute as wet roads are slick roads.

And enjoy today’s warmth. Tomorrow early in the morning will be 70 but the approach of the front will bring an Arctic blast – not cold enough for frost much less snow but still chilly. The days are so short in the fall.

At one level some fall colors would be nice but then again fall colors mean the end of the green woods and soon the trees will be free of leaves. Hunting season opens up for more species but even that seems brief before winter takes over.

September 25, 2015 morning

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Good morning, Happy Friday! 58 degrees and sunny with some high clouds. Going to be another nice early autumn day, followed by a nice fall weekend. Looking forward to MooseFest this weekend and hopefully some really colorful leaves. Usually by this point they are at or even beyond peak color at Moose River Plains but this year has relatively warm.

Porch light worked well with turning on automatically at dusk. A simple little thing, but it sure beats coming home in the dark.

Continuing to work on planning my October trip. I didn’t think it was going to happen but now that I figured out a reasonable route, I think I can make it happen. Still a long trip down to West Virginia but I will avoid city traffic and break it down to reasonable sized increments.

September 22, 2015 morning

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Good morning. On this Tuesday morning we are up to 54 degrees with gloomy, cloudy skies that are often seen in the fall months around here. It was dark enough that at 8 AM the porch light now controlled by a darkness activated switch had turned on. By the 9 o’clock hour the switch had turned off the light.

Today is the last day of summer. Summer ended before beginning, as that trippy lyric from the 1960s used to say. Fall is a nice season but at times it can be so depressing with the grey skies and cooler weather. On nice days, fall is the nicest time of the year. At least I prefer the icky weather on days when I have to work. The good news is today is pay day is today, as I need the money to pay the rent and the bills.