Delmar, NY
I came home with a minor eye infection 👁️
Midday before going up to Colonie to visit John Wolcott I noticed my right eye was kind of milky looking out of it. I thought my contact lens was dirty so I took it out, cleaned it and ultimately replaced it. But it seems like it’s my eye that is irritated and I especially notice it with the sun out. After getting eaten alive at Anne Lee Pond I decided to head straight home, take out my contacts and now I’m thinking of getting some shut eye to let my eyes recover. I’m hoping it’s not serious – I thought for a minute about seeking out Urgent Care but I think it best to let my eye rest overnight and get fully caught up on sleep.
Red kidney beans plus a little maple syrup are amazing
Take it from me, try it out either as a side or even a dessert. Plus kidney beans are very filling so you don’t have to eat much to be very full.
Any suggestions on a good used bicycle? 🚲
I’ve given up or at least put aside my bicycle rebuilding project for now. I want to get back on the road sooner than later but I also don’t want to spend $800 on a new bike that gets stolen two weeks later or is shinny plastic chrome plated garbage that falls apart by the end of the summer from just ordinary use.
I did the buy a new brand name Gary Fisher bicycle “it will be great thing fit so comfortable has a great suspension” 20 years ago from Downtube and it turned out to be a complete lemon and a disaster. I don’t want to do that again. They insisted the new bicycles aren’t such crap but I don’t believe them.
The hardest part of eating healthy is the first night camping
There was a time in my thirties when the first thing I would do when finally arriving at camp was to crack open a beer. Often followed by a greasy sausage, sliced cheese and cookies. But those days are over but I still often pine for them as carrots and even fresh blueberries, strawberries, and bananas aren’t the same.
I will have an occasional beer while camping but no longer is it a 36 rack over a three day weekend. I don’t drink more then 2 beers a day, many times less. Maybe one with lunch and one by the fire but none of this be drunk and merry for all of camping, legitimizing it by saying camping’s a physical activity and calories don’t count in the wilderness.
Mostly by the second day I’m okay with the change. I like the healthier meals that maintain a constant blood sugar levels and rich in protein keep me going for a good portion of the day. I don’t miss the hang overs or feeling bloated and sick from eating so much crap. I have more energy, the hills seem shorter and easier to climb.
The swamp has arrived ⛈️
As have the very scammy swamp cooler advertising you see on social media which I like to reinforce by clicking on those ads. It’s humid!
Good morning! Happy Saturday! Clouds and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. It’s definitely summer.
Today will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌧 High of 76 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 4th. Maximum dew point of 70 at 1pm. 🏖️ South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1943.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon. Today is the latest sunset of the year or pretty close to it. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (241°) at an altitude of 37° from the horizon, 249,990 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 69 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 11 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 3am. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 65 degrees at 4am. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 6pm. Light southwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1982.
Looking ahead, next Saturday is July 🏊🏿 when the sun will be setting at 8:38 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2022, we had hot, humid, partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 95 and 68 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 83 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1913.
