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.
Good morning! Happy Tuesday, Ready for some Warm Weather? 🏖
Actually quite pleasant weather as the needle won’t even be moving much on the mug o meter with dew points only to reach the fifties by the peak of the heat wave.
Sunny and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃.
Still fairly cool this morning 🚶 heading out for my morning walk at 6:15 am. But I like how early the sun rises now and how calm things are before the morning rush hour. 🚘 Especially as the heat of summer comes I might start doing my morning walk before breakfast 🥣.
Woke up at 4 am and started reading 📖 about the open class materials from Penn State’s class on Spatial Auto Correlation. 🗺 Basically its a class on how to detect clusters and draw conclusions from statistical models from Geographic data. Yesterday I upgraded R on my laptop to 4.2 so I could use the rgeoda package 📦. I’ve use the geoda stand alone app but it’s clunky and a pain to use so I’d much rather use it directly in R where I can use code rather than a lot of dialogs.
Still not a lot of green 🌄 in the Helderbergs yet. Spring is late for May 10th but so far we haven’t had a warm up. After this week though I expect things will change although still so far many of the nights in the outlying locations have been quite frosty.
Finally put away the electric blanket and space heater ♨️ away and got the fan out. I’ll have to open the rest of the windows. 🔳 Although it’s going to take a while for the real hot weather to approach so I’m not worried about it being too hot when I get home. Plus I don’t expect to get home until pretty late.
The past few days have been so busy at work. 🏢 It’s the end of session with a what seems like a billion bills moving through committee, people keep getting the COVID 😷 and more and more projects keep popping up. I just don’t think heading out of town this weekend is a realistic option.
Personally, I am glad the stock market is down. With inflation being so high these days, you got to save money wherever you can. Getting a little more stock for less money is a good thing. With most things going up in price these, the stock market is a refreshing change of pace.
Warm but not real humid for the second half of the week 🌦️
Looks like the chance of showers is increasing for the weekend. It’s fine, I’ll probably be working and gas prices are creeping back up again. Black flies are likely bad up north. And I’ll likely end up working remotely so any where I would go I’d need cell service and my laptop.
Today. Feels like …
May 9th.
Sunny.
Light and variable wind becoming northeast 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
and
69 degrees
,29 max dew point,
8:05
sunset.
Tonight. Feels like …
April 24th.
Mostly clear.
East wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
and
40 degrees
,
5:36
sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like …
May 27th.
Sunny.
North wind 3 to 8 mph.
and
74 degrees
,33 max dew point,
8:06
sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like …
May 4th.
Clear.
East wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.
I tell you weekends are getting shorter especially when you end up working it half from home. Cool but clear this morning for the walk walk 🚶 but that’s changing.
Sunny and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind.
Yesterday I hiked out to Five Rivers 🐸 in the morning and then in the afternoon went to the tulip 🌷 festival for a while at the Save the Pine Bush booth with my muzzle on. 😷 I really didn’t stray far as there was so many crowds there without masks during what is the biggest COVID-19 uptick in a while. I just don’t like festivals, the crowds, the drunkness and the wastefulness of such events.
I also went to the store 🏪last night and knew I forgot something important, namely contact solution. 👀 I have a small freebie bottle 🍾 I got that I can probably use this week, as I hate driving 🚘 during the week days especially with gas ⛽ so expensive. Plus after long days at work I get tired 😴 and the last thing I want to do is go to the store. 🛒
I was up much to late by my standards Saturday night 🌃 playing with the redist R library and sequential Monte Carlos districting, experimenting with ways to classify things on maps. 🗺 While the primary goal 🥅 of the library is to compare random district plans to proposed plans to detect how gerrymandered districts are, it actually does a good job of generating sample districts and groupings that comply with certain parameters you desire.
Water is still cold, and there aren’t full leaves on the trees yet and the humidity is still low but the two days of Albany spring will transition into the dog days of summer come next weekend. I’m sure that the hordes of blsck flies will be out up north.
Today. Feels like …
April 26th.
Mostly sunny.
Northeast wind around 10 mph.
and
64 degrees
,30 max dew point,
8:04
sunset.
Tonight. Feels like …
April 16th.
Partly cloudy.
Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
and
37 degrees
,
5:38
sunrise.
Monday. Feels like …
May 12th.
Sunny.
Northeast wind 5 to 9 mph.
and
70 degrees
,31 max dew point,
8:05
sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like …
April 21st.
Mostly clear.
East wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
A beautiful spring day after a rather cloudy and gray day on Saturday.
Partly sunny 🌞 and 54 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. There is a northeast breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. More clouds to the south.
Out for a morning walk to Five Rivers 🐸, I figure enjoy the cool weather before the heat comes in tomorrow. Going to be hot by mid week. Gray Cat 🙀 birds are back. Leaf out is occurring but it’s been slow compared to many years. Breeze is stiff enough with things still pretty brown out up north their warning ⚠ of the wildfire risk.
This afternoon I’m catching a bus into the city for the tulip 🌷 festival to table for a few hours for Save the Pine Bush. 🦋 I am going to wear my mask 😷 and be careful as Covid-19 is spiking lately.
Yesterday I hiked Bennett Hill. 🌱 Some greening up but not a lot. I guess out in the hilltowns, spring comes late.
