Five Rivers Environmental Education Center is a living museum comprising over 450 acres of broad fields, towering forests, and tranquil wetlands. Five Rivers offers people of all ages a rich variety of guided and self-guided opportunities to encounter nature directly. Stimulating interpretive programs and guided school lessons promote awareness, knowledge and appreciation of New York State’s environment year ’round. With over 10 miles of trails for self-guided exploration, Five Rivers fosters discovery, spiritual refreshment and physical fitness through wholesome outdoor recreation.
A most beautiful spring weekend! Mostly sunny ☀ and 65 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. There is a north breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 48 degrees.
Got a bright and early start, 💻 doing the work I needed to get done starting at six o’clock this morning with a cup of coffee ☕ until a little after 8 am, sitting out back. I need the comp time so I can use it this summer for work, but also because the Committee Agendas are always a rush project and I didn’t want to work on them late into the evening on Friday. I’d rather go to bed 🛏 early and get up early. I’m kind of werid like that but I believe in early to bed early to rise.
Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 28th. Maximum dew point of 48 at 9am. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2004. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄
Walked out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐦 to start out my day, which was proceeded by a hike out along Meads Lane. There was an abandoned dead calf out there in the pasture but part of having livestock 🐮 is sometimes dead stock. It’s nature. 🏞 Later on this afternoon going to hike Bennett Hill and go out to see the folks. Not sure if I’m going to spend a night in the woods in the hammock, going to be fairly cold by morning.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 65.7° from the due south horizon (-5.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:28 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (290°). 📸
The sunset is in the west-northwest (296°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:09 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 8:40 pm, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:21 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 66 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 9 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 46 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 10th. North wind 6 to 10 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1996.
Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:38 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 86 and 61 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.
Yesterday, out walking at Five Rivers it was an outstandling beautiful afternoon with hoards of people throughout the area. Too many to really enjoy it in my perspective, especially in the era of social-distancing.
You feed livestock, you cook food to yourself.Or so they say.
Lately in my forties I’ve been thinking a lot more about food and what I put in my body. One of the things I keep hearing about food and cooking is the question — does it taste good?
As if taste was the only thing to consider when eating. Or if taste was the primary thing to consider while eating. Taste gives immediate pleasure, but it is only really is one part of eating. The nutrition of the food is a much more significant part of eating, especially as one’s choices when it comes to eating compounds over time.
When feeding livestock, one consideration is the food palatable but in many ways it’s a secondary consideration to the goal of the farmer, to bulk up the animal, building muscle and fat for milk and meat production. Maybe one should think about food more like feed.
Food has to be good enough that one eats it. But it shouldn’t be so tasty one wants to engorge into it, stuffing one’s face with far more then is healthy. Food should have a lot of fiber to fill oneself up quickly, while being low on unhealthy fats, salt and sugar. Edible but not super, unnaturally delicious.
Too often when I read recipes or watch internet cooking videos, the priority seems to be to make the food as tasty as possible. Which might be good if your trying to bulk up on fat for slaughter, but maybe not so good if you trying to live a healthy lifestyle. I am not convinced that super, unnaturally delicious food should be a goal of cooking.
