Delmar is a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. The community is bisected by NY Route 443 (Delaware Avenue), a major thoroughfare, main street, and route to Albany.
A census-designated place (CDP) has been established since 1980 by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating the population of what the census has defined as the boundaries of the urbanized area in and around Delmar. The population was 8,292 at the 2000 census, but it was not included as a CDP in the 2010 census.
In 2005, CNN/Money Magazine named the Delmar ZIP Code (an area larger than the Delmar hamlet or CDP) as one of the “Best Places to Live” in America, rating it the 22nd best place to live among what it called “Great American Towns.
Good morning folks on this beautiful Saturday. Started out cloudy, but now clearing. It sure is nice to the see the rays of sun, when it’s been so cloudy for so long. The breeze — around 10 miles per hour makes the 35 degrees seem a bit cooler then the mercury suggests, but still nicer then recent. Looking for a high around 40 degrees today.
Kind of slept in this morning, and made some breakfast on the stove. Not too fancy, but some eggs and salsa, with some cheese dip I (accidentally) bought for camping a while back. It was okay, but I do need to get to the store and buy some groceries. I’ll stop at the store and get a few things on Monday, and hopefully by Tuesday evening I’ll have my truck back and it will start reliably in cold weather and on short trips. I have great hope that the shop with all their tools can figure out the electrical problem, probably in five minutes (and bill me for an hour). Probably a loose wire or the battery actually. I probably could have figured it out myself, but it would have taken hours of figuring out how to test from the Interwebs and probably replacing unneeded components. But I don’t care that much, it needs to not strand me in the wilderness.
I’m off hiking to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center in a few minutes after I get done with my shower. Going to take some pictures and go for a nice walk. Feeling better this weekend, despite my nagging cough, and want to spend more time in the woods. Yesterday was nice at the Town Park but the Environmental Education Center offers more different views. I would have liked to go to the Adirondacks this weekend, but so be it. Made some good progress on various improvements to the blog, and map making.
Got my last pay stub of the year, and it was pretty good year. Better then expected, made up somewhat for a fairly flat stock market. Worked a lot of hours, but made some good money. Too bad with inflation, that money went out the door about as quick as it came in. A lot of it went to savings though, especially my retirement account. This year, I’m not making a large up-front payment on retirement from savings, so the bimonthly withdrawls will be larger, but it will provide more stability for investments, should the market decline. I’ll miss watching my savings account grow as quickly as it did in the past though. Eventually though, I hope to have land out in the country, a basic off-grid cabin, in free state. At least by the time I retire. In the mean-time, I may end up buying a small house in the city or near suburbs, where I can take the bus to work every day. I hate driving in the city.
2015 was a pretty darn good year, all things considered. Spraining my ankle sucked. It hurt like a mother and I couldn’t get around well for over a month. But once I got the boot off, I started to recover. My ankle still occasionally hurts a bit, but it’s more on and off. Probably should loose some weight, but I sure like drinking those cold ones in the woods. Camped right up to the end of year, and except for the stupid truck, would have spent New Years Eve in the wilderness. Still, I might get out camping next weekend or certainly Martin Luther King Day Jr. weekend, assuming it’s not that frigid (as defined by days that have highs close to or above freezing and no rain or damp fog). West Virgina was amazing, although I wish I had spend more time in the Shenandoah Valley, exploring some of the beautiful farm land and the Shenandoah River. Once you get into Shenandoah National Park, there are few access roads to the valley below. Maybe November 2016, I’ll take the Blue Ridge Parkway farther south, where it will be warmer and I can explore more. The Remington 597 .22 I have is a lot of fun to shoot, but I sure wish I could own a high-capacity magazine in New York, as it would make it even more to shoot.
Have a great day. It’s a beautiful one. Get outside and enjoy it.
Good evening. Partly cloudy and about freezing. Hate these dark, damp days of late? It’s going to be partly sunny tomorrow and around 39 degrees. Still a bit of a breeze but not bad for January. Lake effect continues to our west. Cold weather comes for Monday and Tuesday but not unreasonable for this time of year.
Went for a walk down to the park this afternoon. Not many folks there, kind of cold, dark, and gray today. Spent some time working on various pieces of code for the blog and map making. Pretty quiet day, as I was stuck in town without a car and the library was closed. Sometimes quiet days are nice. Been listening to some podcasts this evening and making some maps.
Good morning. Happy New Year on this morning of 2016. Currently 34 degrees and partly cloudy to start off your New Year. Next few days are expected to reach around 40 with more sun on Saturday and Sunday. Colder weather and sunnier comes in for Monday and Tuesday, with higher expected around 24 degrees for both days. Mild weather but cloudier returns for the second half of the week.
Today I’ll probably work on some more coding and head down to the town park. Maybe work on some things around the apartment. Still somewhat recovering from my cold. Tomorrow looks nicer, so I’m thinking I will hike out to Five Rivers Education Center in the morning.
Next weekend looks cold and snowy but we will see. My guess is my next trip will wait for Martin Luther King Jr Day Weekend but we will see. Still have plenty of 2016 left to do stuff and by April the weather gets fairly mild.
Good morning. Happy 2016. Currently 37 degrees and overcast this evening but with a chilly breeze. So the new year is upon us, although honestly many of us would like to put it behind us, so that the political silly season is behind us.
My failing truck meant that I didn’t really get to do anything special for New Years. Damn thing wouldn’t start again when I got to Sears to buy shirts and I had to get it jump started and leave it at the garage. Being the holiday weekend, I won’t see the truck back until Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully things will be back running by then again. It could have been worse, I could have been stranded in the Adirondacks without cellphone service, hoping a trooper or someone else could give me a ride. Sucks, but I don’t think we are talking about thousands in repairs. Probably a few hundred at the most. I swear cars never work properly. I haven’t been posting much lately because of my frustration and need to cuss at the world.
Went out to my parent’s house today for their annual cheese fondue. They’ve been doing it for some three decades or so. It’s delicious as ever but rough on the stomach and rear end hours later.
Been working on some new code for the blog and map making, although I’m spending a lot of time just relearning the ins and outs of object oriented coding, because I have done much coding in a long time. I have a long list of blog fixes and improvements I want to make during the winter months of 2016.
I don’t think I missed that much not camping in the Adirondacks this weekend. My tent is not a four season tent, so I would worry that if we got a lot of lake effect snow while camping it could knock down the tent. The gray skies and wind wouldn’t make camping much fun at any rate. I looked at camping locally but that wasn’t as practical as first thought. We will see when the next time I’m out in the woods camping – the snow is getting deep in many places, seasonal places are closed, and the weather may be too cold. We will see. It’s January. I do have a three day weekend off for Martin Luther King Jr Day but that tends to be a quite frigid time of the year.
Good morning. Currently 40 degrees and partly sunny. Going to cloud up more for the evening, and drop down to 30 degrees. Not much lake effect snow, but it’s expected to pick up by evening, leaving 6-12 inches of snow in much of the Western Adirondacks as the new year gets underway.
Good evening. Currently cloudy and 34 degrees. Tomorrow will be 41 degrees and mostly cloudy. The warmer temperatures should help melt some of the slop on the sidewalks. Sunrise at 7:25 AM. Have a great night.
Good morning. On this final Tuesday of 2015 it’s sleeting and around 29 degrees. The bus seems to be running on time but the untreated surfaces are somewhat slippery but not as slippery as if we had gotten freezing rain. The freezing rain will come later and transition over to rain, leaving us little slop left over.
I am still feeling a little bit sick but they are short staffed and at this point I’m mostly recovered and I need to get caught up on things at work.
A much as I hate living in the city, it sure is nice on icy days like today. I don’t have to worry about my commute and on nice weekends I can spend them out in the wilderness.
Still looking at heading up to the Adirondacks camping for New Years Eve. This won’t require a lot of preparations. With the snow, it will likely involve tent camping, with gear dragged back into the woods. Another possibility is camping locally. I’m thinking about that too.
I am almost to work. Have a safe commute and enjoy your Tuesday.
