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.
Many people where I work think it’s odd that I take public transit to work🚌, which it can be a pain on the late nights at work when I have wait for the next bus to come. I just hate driving in the city and with my big jacked up truck I’d never fit in the garage. I’d rather just play on the phone when the driver takes me to work.
I don’t have air conditioning at home, preferring to go down to the park with a book 📚 and sit out back until late in the evening. I guess not having air conditioning is different in the modern era.
But then again I also refuse to have internet at home because💻 its an unnecessary expense and I can either walk down to the park or the library and use my laptop to get on the internet for free. I guess that is a bit odd in the modern era.
I’ve also never owned a television, although for a short while I had a cheap HDTV tuner that worked until it broke. 📺But I never really used it much and only watched non commercial programming like the PBS Newshour – which I ended up watching less and less when their primary cause became pushing gun control. Most television is a stupid waste of time and advertising is so obnoxious.
I don’t really follow contemporary culture and politics. 🔌For my job I do read my clients newspapers but I rarely read the local news. I couldn’t tell you ninty percent of what is happening in the local news. I guess I don’t really care at this point as most things are beyond my control. Sometimes I listen to NPR but less and less when every story seems to be about attacking the president or pushing a left wing agenda. 📻 I guess I do check NPR.org a few times a week and listen to podcasts so I’m not totally disconnected.
Music wise I don’t really follow what is contemporary, probably the average date of music on my phone is 1968 or about a half century old. 🎤 The music my parents listened to college. I do listen to country music but rarely on the radio, and while my share of Jason Aldean records on my phone, I do also listen to a lot of Merle Haggard and Dave Dudley.
I’m just not really into contemporary culture or what is popular today. I think it’s too loud and commercial, it’s too offensive and explicit.📢 I’m perfectly happy to live in the wilderness⛺ that I choose to live in.
This table shows the average high, median, and low temperatures for the next year. Previous year values are shown in parenthesis. The sun angle is the maximum sun angle at solar noon for the day.
Maybe a bit nicer for Easter but cold with that wind. The windows will need to be closed by mid-day I believe. Maybe before I go out hiking and to the transfer station. Hopefully though I’ll be able to enjoy the birds before it gets too wet out though. At least we aren’t getting the snow or nearly the precipitation they’re talking about up north.
Today. Feels like … April 1st.
Showers, mainly after 1pm. Temperature rising to near 52 by 9am, then falling to around 40 during the remainder of the day. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
and
52 degrees
,
7:39 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … April 9th.
Rain and snow showers before 10pm, then a chance of rain showers between 10pm and 11pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers after 11pm. Low around 34. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
and
34 degrees
,
6:08 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … March 21st.
A chance of rain and snow showers before 10am, then a chance of rain showers. Partly sunny.
Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
and
47 degrees
,
7:40 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … April 1st.
Mostly clear.
Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
and
31 degrees
,
6:07 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … April 7th.
Mostly sunny.
Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
and
55 degrees
,
7:42 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … April 16th.
Rain. Low around 37. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
and
37 degrees
,
6:05 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … March 26th.
Rain, mainly before 2pm. High near 49. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Good morning! No rain yet, we but we know what’s coming. ⛈
Maybe we won’t get as much rain as up north, and no snow but it is hardly going to be a banner day. I do hope to do some hiking at Hollyhock or maybe Blodgett Hill.
Clouds and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 11 pm. Then cold and windy tomorrow for Easter with clouds.
What can I say, Easter might be late 🐰 but that’s not guarantee of nice weather. I have a family obligation next weekend so I can’t get out of town, but maybe the following weekend I’m hoping. 😎 The thing is at this point the weather is only going to get warmer and nicer, although that also means the black flies will be awakening soon 🐜 and I want to get at least one spring weekend in the Adirondacks before the black flies are out.
I am heading to the transfer station to drop off my recyclables ♻️ and be green and things like that. I’ve sorted out everything carefully, put a nice bow on it, have my $6 ready, and will put everything in the proper dumpsters to be green. As dubious as I may be about it all, I really needed to empty my trash cans 🥫 of metals and glass so might as well recycle plastics too.
I am hoping that the rain will hold off for a few hours, 🌧 so I can enjoy a few hours in the woods 🐦 looking at the birds and enjoying the spring time weather, although I think sun will be hard to come by. But still Hollyhock is nice. I might do Blodgett Hill, it’s a much more vigorous hike, but it’s sort of out of the way compared to Hollyhock which is just down the road form the transfer station.
Yesterday I sanded and primed my truck. Next time I have a nice weekend I’ll sand the primer down with fine grain sand paper then use the duplicate color to cover it. 🛻 Doesn’t have to perfect but I want to slow the growth of the rust holes. That said, the areas I worked on last year really did stop the cancer ♋ in its tracks. Rust belt life sucks.
I spent most of the evening and night 🌃 reading a library book about Javascript. I’ve been using that language on and off since high school to build my blog 📚 but my knowledge is pretty vague of modern Javascript and the techniques widely used today with nodejs.
I should have gone for my walk 🚶 yesterday as it was a pretty nice day but in the evening it got dark and cloudy ⛅ and painting the truck, sorting recyclables ♻ and reading 📖 took the balance of the day. I still do pretty good most days for walking and I expect I will close out the month of April averaging more than 10,000 steps per day. 👣
Since they “upgraded” my phone to unlimited bandwidth for free (well, in-effect 60 GB a month) …
I really enjoy the trashy nature of thumbing through the Ag Tiktok. 🐮 🚜
There seems to be almost unlimited hours of country boys, rednecks, farmers and ranchers doing silly and stupid things with quads, pickup trucks, tractors, cattle and manure spreaders. I can almost taste the diesel smoke and silage through Tiktok. And the humor is just wonderful, grasped in reality, down to earth nature that people who make a living from the land only have.
And it sure beats that crap they have on the color television, which I don’t own and have no desire to ever own. I don’t plan to ever make Tiktok myself, but I sure do enjoy watching them when I want some kind of trashy distraction from everyday lives by the cowboys of interwebs.
Beautiful weather today and then less beautiful weather tomorrow 🌞
But it’s going to rain by afternoon in the Adirondacks, and maybe cloud up around here. It all depends how dicy the weather gets. Going to be windy out later on too. Very low dew point so the wildlife risk is high, so don’t be burning shit, illegally or otherwise. Then rain and showers tomorrow and very cold for Easter. Monday might be sunny but still pretty cold, especially with the wind, so I Might end up going into the office.
Today. Feels like … April 28th.
Sunny.
Light southwest wind increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
and
65 degrees
,33 max dew point,
7:38 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … May 19th.
Partly cloudy.
South wind 9 to 13 mph.
and
49 degrees
,
6:10 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … April 4th.
Showers, mainly after 2pm. High near 53. Southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
and
53 degrees
,
7:39 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … April 9th.
Showers, mainly before 8pm. Low around 34. Northwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
and
34 degrees
,
6:08 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … March 21st.
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 9am, then a slight chance of rain showers between 9am and 2pm. Partly sunny.
Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
and
47 degrees
,
7:40 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … April 6th.
Mostly clear.
and
33 degrees
,
6:07 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … April 7th.
Mostly sunny.
and
55 degrees
,
7:42 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … April 21st.
Rain, mainly after 8pm. Low around 39. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
and
39 degrees
,
6:05 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … March 30th.
Rain, mainly before 2pm. High near 51. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
