John Boyd Thacher State Park, is situated along the Helderberg Escarpment, one of the richest fossil-bearing formations in the world. Even as it safeguards six miles of limestone cliff-face, rock-strewn slopes, woodland and open fields, the park provides a marvelous panorama of the Hudson-Mohawk Valleys and the Adirondack and Green Mountains. The park has volleyball courts, playgrounds, ball fields and numerous picnic areas with nine reservable shelters. Interpretive programs are offered year-round, including guided tours of the famous Indian Ladder Trail. There are over 25 additional miles of trails for summer hiking and mountain biking, and winter cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and snowmobiling.
It’s cold. I fully expect tonight I’m going to have to turn on the central heat and run to the grocery store before the salt spreaders are out on Tuesday.
Mostly sunny and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 7 am. 🌡️
Out walking at 6:30 this morning. 🌅 Cold start to the morning, my hands 👐 feel the sting of the cold but at warming up. I still wanted to get out early, as I’d much rather walk in Delmar then Albany, and plus I get more steps in early, then if I don’t get out for the evening walk because it’s cold or I’m busy, I still have my steps in for the day.
I would like to get to the store 🏬 tonight before the ice ❄ and road salt tomorrow. I don’t need groceries yet but the things I will buy should last a few weeks especially if unopened. I buy a lot of frozen things as it minimizes the amount of waste 🗑 I produce especially with rates going up at the transfer station ♻ and not having as many fires 🔥 in the winter time for burnables. Past few milk and juice bottles, I’ve been washing them out for recycling. Tomorrow is after all, National Recycling Day. But also, I need to pack a lunch every day for work, as the days of free lunches at work during the fall have come and gone.
I finally got to turn on the heat tonight I’m afraid. 🌡 It looks like it will be in the lower 20s by morning, and that’s both too cold for both the pipes and my comfort. While I’m happy if my apartment is above 50 degrees, with the cold I’m sure it won’t last too long, though at this point I’ll probably keep my heat at the lowest setting until the real cold comes. If I’m cold I have my heated blanket out and that little space heater, which I run only about 20 hours a winter, mostly to warm up my hands.
I am thinking probably this weekend I will stay in town, 🏘 but maybe after Thanksgiving on Black Friday through early the next week head out of town. Maybe out to the Adirondacks. ⛰ A lot depends on the weather, how much snow is up north, and how cold and cloudy ☁️ it may be. Winter can pose a problem for heading up north, and while it’s been late, they may get several inches of snow, depending on where you are in the Adirondacks. Plus many of the campsites may already be taken by hunters.
Once winter comes and rifle season is done, I’ll probably do skiing at Rensselaerville State Forest. 🎿 It’s close to home, and that road is open year around, so if I bring a shovel I can certainly camp there and ski on winter weekends when it’s not too cold out.
America is likely to remain blue for a few more days. That said, my meteorologist friend, who actually made a career of studying shit like this says that we are due for warm up by the end of the month. I’ll believe it when I see it, though. Winter is coming, though the really cold winters don’t seem to stick around like they one did.
Or has it just arrived? I don’t know but it’s much too cold and gray today up here on Bennett Hill. And the sun is setting much too early this time of year.
This Afternoon. Feels like … November 25th.
A slight chance of showers after 4pm. Partly sunny.
Northwest wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
and
45 degrees
,
4:35 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … November 23rd.
Partly cloudy.
Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
and
29 degrees
,
6:44 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … December 6th.
Sunny.
Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
and
41 degrees
,
4:35 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … December 17th.
Mostly clear.
Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph.
and
22 degrees
,
6:45 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 9th.
Partly sunny.
Calm wind.
and
40 degrees
,
4:35 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … November 23rd.
Snow showers likely, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 70%.
and
29 degrees
,
6:47 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … December 15th.
Snow showers likely before 10am, then rain and snow showers likely between 10am and 1pm, then a chance of rain showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 70%.
and
38 degrees
,
4:34 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … November 23rd.
Mostly cloudy.
and
29 degrees
,
6:48 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … December 9th.
A chance of rain showers after 1pm, mixing with snow after 5pm. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
and
40 degrees
,
4:33 sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like … December 10th.
A chance of snow showers before 7pm. Partly cloudy.
Kind of a cloudy, gray November day but that is not stopping the crowds at Bennett Hill Preserve. I decided to hike up the mountain, and I’m not alone, on this not very nice day before going out to my parents house for Sunday lunch
Mostly cloudy and 43 degrees at the Bennett Hill Preserve. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around noontime. ☃️
Northwest wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
and
64 degrees
,48 max dew point,
4:36 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … October 18th.
A slight chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy.
Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
and
40 degrees
,
6:43 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … November 16th.
A chance of showers, mainly before noon. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny.
Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
49 degrees
,
4:36 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … November 23rd.
A slight chance of rain showers before 10pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 10pm and 1am, then a slight chance of snow showers after 1am. Partly cloudy.
Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
and
29 degrees
,
6:44 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … November 30th.
Mostly sunny.
Northwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
and
43 degrees
,
4:35 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … November 30th.
Partly cloudy.
and
27 degrees
,
6:45 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … November 28th.
Partly sunny.
and
44 degrees
,
4:34 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … November 20th.
Rain and snow showers likely after 1am, becoming all snow after 3am. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 60%.
and
30 degrees
,
6:46 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … December 3rd.
Snow showers likely before 9am, then rain and snow showers likely between 9am and 11am, then rain showers likely after 11am. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 70%.
and
42 degrees
,
4:33 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … November 20th.
A chance of rain showers, mixing with snow after 9pm, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy.
Good afternoon! Happy Saturday on this Veterans Day Weekend 🎖
Cloudy and 57 degrees at the Bethlehem Library. ☁️ There is a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 23 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 48 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Monday around 2 am. ☃️
Yesterday afternoon it rained and rained some more. 🌧 It was from the hurricane. Kept me from heading out of town this weekend. But that’s fine, I needed a quiet day on Saturday.
Went down to the park for a while yesterday, 🚶♀️ but didn’t want to get too far from home and get poured on. As when the rain came, it came. I ended up taking a nap last night and watching some Youtube videos on my phone. I’ve just been recovering from the week that was.
While I should do this more frequently, I finally checked www.annualcreditreport.com, which is the US government’s authorized way to getting your annual credit report for free. No surprises here, but I have to admit I hadn’t checked it in quite a while.
I probably should check it more often – one of my credit cards I’ve had for years was closed last month due to inactivity. Which is fine, but it’s kind of good to know before I tried to use it somewhere. I don’t remember the bank notifying me about the closed account. Which means I now have less credit then probably most dogs in America, and while credit score is in the shitter because I told the bank to give me low credit limit far below was authorized, but I don’t care as I rarely buy things.
I should be more careful. One of my bank accounts passwords were hacked a while back (but stopped by two-way authentication and a call from the bank), and I had that issue with that gun that I tried to buy a few years back at a famously anti-second amendment Big Box retailer that is locally all around and famously shitty to do business. I was denied because I was told that I had previously tried to purchase it somewhere else as labeled a Straw Buyer in NICS over the transaction. I never got any answers on that from the store or the police department, but I think the clerk just entered the wrong store number. Yeah, I’m still bitter about that one.
