Delmar, NY

Good morning! Happy Daylight Savings Time 🌇

🌹🌻🌼Next Sunday is the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

I know that’s a pretty meaningless phrase 💭 but at least on the Tiktok you can watch all the videos of the cows getting let out to pasture and grazing down south. 🐮 But we will still be in the frozen tundra up north,  although this week doesn’t look that bad.

Sunny and 20 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 25 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 7. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am probably for the bulk of the week and kill off most of the snow. 🌡️

Decided to set my alarm ⏰ for six 6⃣ am and have breakfast at the normal time and go for my morning walk 🚶 like I do most weekdays. I didn’t want to break my habit of being an early riser with the time change. Plus tomorrow is going to be quite mild ☀ and I want to go out for a walk tomorrow before I go to work as I expect a late night at work. 🌃

Traffic is basically non existent at seven 7⃣ o’clock on a Sunday morning. 🌅 The air is so nice and crisp, the skies are a deep blue. It’s cold but lacks the bite of a true winter’s day. Red winged black birds 🐦 are back in mass. The sun has gotten the birds up and awake, even if it is cold.

I cleaned off my truck, 🛻 and now just waiting for the sun to clean it up. 😎 I used my landlords shovel to clean off around my truck, I still haven’t gotten a new snow shovel. But I have a feeling this is the last snowstorm of the winter, and it wasn’t that significant. Guarantees a late March or April blizzard, but I big jacked up truck with a drinking problem, that I can break through the snow bank with. Or that little camp shovel I used to bury shit 💩 and dig through the fire pit for any unburnt garbage to recycle. 🔥

I plan to go to Five Rivers later to go skiing. ⛷ I could go out to Partridge Run or somewhere farther away but I’m not willing to put gas in my truck. Gas prices have come down a bit the past few days, but I’m in no rush to fuel up or burn gas before I need to. Summer is coming, and I’d rather save the fuel for times when I can be floating down that lazy river ⚫ in my tube, drinking cheap beer and maybe eating clams. 🕹 I was going to go skiing yesterday, but it was so cold with that wind, so I decided to stay home and inside where it’s at least somewhat warm. ♨️ I did use the space heater more yesterday then I probably should have, but I probably will turn off the heat before work tomorrow for the rest of the week. If it’s cold, I’ll have my heated blanket.

I am just there will be that additional time in the evening 🌇 as I felt that walking home from the express was a bit dangerous at rush hour 🚘 🚶 in the dark plus I found it hard to get out for my evening walk even at seven o’clock in the cold and dark. Plus if there is a nice weekend it makes it easier to get out of town, assuming gas is still somewhat affordable. ⛽

This week I want to try to get to the car wash again, 🚿 I know it’s winter and it’s tough, and get groceries. I might have to breakdown and get fuel. The last time I put gas in my truck, fuel was still around $3.70 a gallon. Remember those good ol’ days. ⛽ I don’t use that much gas in the winter, but I still like to go out to the folks house on Sunday and get groceries once a week. 👃 Come nicer weather though, I’ll just have to hold my nose and gas ‘er up I guess. And take advantage of the free bus out to Thacher Park once that restarts up out in June.