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 evening. A combination of laziness, forgetfulness, and the crazy weekend camping left me without posting many pictures or updates. So here we go.
Currently 27 degrees with light freezing fog. The fog is pretty heavy in the valley but lighter than before. It’s cold enough that some bridge surfaces and other locations are starting to ice up. So be careful out there. In the mountains it’s clear and a few degrees warmer due to the temperature inversion impacting the Albany-area and surrounding deep valleys. Might drop a few more degrees by morning.
Tomorrow morning the sun will rise at 7:10 AM, that is if you’re at an elevation where you can see it. Widespread dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 47. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Nice day on tap.
This weekend I went out to Cherry Ridge Camping Area at Charles Baker State Forest. It was a nice weekend but cooler and cloudier then expected. Spent some time in the woods hunting, drove down to Sherburne for a short walk at the Rogers Environmental Education Center and to pick up flashlight batteries as the stupid flashlight accidentally turned on again rolling around in the back of my pickup. Now I always take the batteries out of the flashlight.
Friday night was cold and damp on the woods, at least until I got a fire going and the big buddy heater keeping my butt warm. Hot tented on Friday night. Delightful as always but the gray skies of Saturday disappointed. Ran out of propane on Saturday evening, so while Saturday night was clear and relatively warm, and ice fog and no heat made the evening chilly. I guess I should have just put more layers on. Campfire helped but a lot of the wood I gathered in the woods was wet and slow burning. Slept in the truck cap on Saturday. I wish I had my comforter for extra warmth, but I still liked camping in the truck for the various comfort over an unheated tent.
Came back midmorning on Sunday. I should have headed back out in the field with my gun but so be it, I was cold being under dressed and with no heater to warm up by. Hunting was nice at Charles Baker, fewer hunters on this public land then one would expect. Drove through Unadilla Forks but didn’t see the famous dirt track.
When I got home, I continued on my new found obsession with cleaning quite successfully the mildew in the kitchen and bathroom. I hate the stink and irritation on my hands from the mold remover, but carefully sprayed on, it has proven quite effective at restoring bright white mold free surfaces. I bought gloves to help protect my skin going forward. If I’m not moving out soon, I really need to get the mildew problem under control because at times, especially in the winter it can be quite irritating. It’s part of living in a dirt cheap apartment. I want to buy a small house I can fix up myself without dealing with the landlord and build equity towards a nicer place on land in the country, hopefully off-grid where I can burn my trash and shoot fun but ever so NY illegal guns like AR-15s but right now it’s tricky with all the time I travel for work. I do like the convenience of public transit in the city. I make good money which pays for my road trips now. Some day though I’ll move to a free state .
Driving out to Mom and Dad’s for Sunday dinner, the fog was intense. You struggled to see the stoplights and car taillights. But once you got past Feura Bush and put off the valley, it was a clear evening. As I got some Windex and cleaned my windshield inside I didn’t have the glare problems I normally have at night. I’ve never cleaned my windshield inside since buying my truck and with all the dirt roads I drive on in the summer it really needed a good cleaning.
Good evening. Currently 40 degrees and partly clear this evening. Tonight mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow will be nice. Mostly sunny, with a high near 47. Light northwest wind becoming west 8 to 13 mph in the morning. Sunrise at 7:07 AM.
Went out to dinner with my parents and then to Capital Lights in the park. It was a nice evening. Good food at the Asian Tea House in Delmar. Packed to go camping this weekend in Madison County at the Cherry Ridge Camping Area at Charles Baker State Forest. I am mostly packed got food and gas. I have to make a few stops in the morning and hope to leave around 2 PM on Friday afternoon so to avoid driving US Route 20 after dark.
Got some mildew remover from the store and it’s really working miracles at controlling the mildew in my kitchen. Literally it’s changing the colors of the walls. I was about ready to give up on the mildew and just move out of my shitty little apartment in the suburbs but this seems to change things a lot. Suddenly my kitchen walls aren’t a dingy color with black spots in places.
Spray it on, scrub the worst spots, and wipe it off. I’ve tried bleach many times before to limited success but this is a miracle substance. Three bucks a bottle of it. I’m sure the mildew will grow back in the balmy summer weather but in the meantime it’s like night and day for cleaned areas.
I was at the point with the mildew of looking at new apartments or buying a house. But having a kitchen and bathroom free of mildew or at least heavily controlled makes me very happy. Mildew has been a problem at my apartment the whole eight years I lived here. I may buy a house in the next year or two but at least here I don’t have to suffer so badly with the mildew.
Cloudy and 27 degrees as this Monday gets off to a cold start on the last day of November. This will be the coldest day of the week. Rain for tomorrow through Thursday. Today will gradually become sunny, with a high near 40. South wind 3 to 6 mph.
The landlord will be stopping by this morning to fix the thermostat and my fix to the refrigerator seems to be working. When I get a chance I’ll look at getting the “y” connection so I can hook up the lantern. Hopefully I’ll have closure on all those things.
Next weekend looks pretty nice at this point but we will see once the weekend gets closer. It might be fun to get away for the weekend. We shall see.
At any rate, have a great Monday! Tuesday is just around the corner.
Good evening. Happy Sunday evening. Back to work tomorrow for a nice long full week. Temperatures will be typical for the first week of December and even a bit above. As is common when it gets warm out in December, rain is expected for the mid part of the week.
Currently 33 degrees and partly clear this evening with a Waxing Gibbous Moon. The bright moonlight filtering through the clouds makes driving and walking easy this evening but keep your eyes out for some icy spots and deer on the road.
Later tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Sunrise tomorrow at 7:03 AM. Tomorrow will be pretty seasonable and nice. Sunny, with a high near 40. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. Sunset at 4:23 PM for a total of 9 hours and 20 minutes of daylight.
I broke camp and returned home pretty early as I wanted to visit Tractor Supply Company to check out the Carhartt sale. I was disappointed that they didn’t have any of the classic Carhartt Duck Parkas in my size. It was the end of the sale. I should have gone on Black Friday. I went on Carhartt’s website and found they were out in my size except for the traditional tan color which I didn’t want because it shows mud and muck stains and a ugly blue color. I was also disappointed to see the new Duck Parkas were no longer union made in America. Now they are made in Bangladesh, probably by slave labor – and cost like $40 more than 7 years ago. Some of Carhartt’s products are still union made but not their parkas anymore. Sucks.
Unpacking this evening from camp, I snagged the thermostat on the wall of my apartment and ripped off the front of the old mercury thermostat in my apartment. It’s now in pieces on my counter. I was carrying the Mr. Heater up the stairs and caught the sling on the thermostat while balancing the shotgun in the other hand. I got to call the landlord in the morning and ask for it to be fixed.
Also managed to rip the handle off the ever so rusty refrigerator in the kitchen. Fixed that myself with superglue and tape. That just cracked because it’s falling apart like most things in my cheap, rundown apartment in the suburbs. Some day I’ll buy land out in the country to live on, but for now I like my rundown apartment with the convenience of the bus and the good money I make at my job to buy toys. I don’t want to be tied down to New York forever with the super restrictive gun laws, the open burning ban, the overzealous animal rights folk, the wilderness and environmental jackasses and general indignities of being an upstater in a state which is for all practical purposes a colony of the metropolitan region. Hah! I think I’d probably miss the absurdity of it all if I moved away – I like sardonic humor.
In my general day of suck, I also bought the wrong connectors for the new propane lantern I bought for using of the same propane bottle as my camp heater. This way when winter camping I will have plenty of light without having to worry about running out of Coleman fuel or having to constantly pump up the lantern in the cold. I will order the proper “y” adapter online along with the connector from the high pressure to low pressure line. Oh, well.
All and all it was a nice weekend camping even if it was cold this morning and rainy and damp Friday evening through Saturday afternoon. Things went bad when I got back home but I had good weekend. My problems are minor and will get worked out next week.
Good morning! Partly sunny and 53 degrees on this warm and sunny on this Buy Nothing Day. Later today look for partly cloudy and cloudy later, with a high near 64. South wind 8 to 18 mph.
This evening look for scattered showers, mainly after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 44. South wind around 7 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Should be a nice one for late November. Rain always happens when it’s this warm in late fall. Today I’m off to the Adirondacks to do some hiking and camping in the Jessup River area. Watch Hill, Snowy Mountain, and Pillsbury Mountain are all on the list of possibilities. Auger Falls on the way back. I’ll bring my shotgun and 22 and might spend some time in the woods. We will see.
Good evening. I hope your recovering from your turkey hangover. With the full moon and temperatures around 47 degrees it’s a nice evening for a walk to burn off some calories. I know I enjoyed my walk but I still have a serious turkey comma.
Tonight will become more cloudy, with a low around 42. South wind 7 to 9 mph. There is some debate on the weather tomorrow, but an optimistic take is partly sunny, with a high near 63. South wind 7 to 10 mph.
Still chewing over weekend plans but if the forecast looks good, I will either go up to the Adirondacks or Madison County. I would camp, hike, and maybe hunt. We will see. If it’s frigid, cloudy, and rainy then I won’t go.
Good morning. Happy Thanksgiving! Cloudy this morning and 37 degrees. Today will be mostly cloudy, but warm with a high near 54. South wind 7 to 10 mph. Warm but nice for turkey day.
