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.
The red-wing black birds 🐦 seem to think spring has already arrived although come tomorrow it will certainly feel that way. Also got a robin and nut hatches around, and it looks a starling too looking out my window. After such a cold and snowy Saturday, and a long winter ❄️ I’m ready for a bunch of 50 and 60 degree days — an early preview of April into late April. With no freezing temperatures and a lot of sun, I might even turn the heat off come tomorrow, but I’m not sure if I’m ready to open windows yet.
As there is only two session days this week, I should be able to get home at a reasonable hour every day but Monday. Dusk isn’t until 7:30 now, and it despite the later sunrise, it’s actually not that late.
Today. Feels like … February 8th.
A slight chance of snow showers before 8am. Mostly sunny.
West wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
and
34 degrees
,7 max wind chill,
7:00 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … March 7th.
Mostly cloudy.
South wind around 8 mph.
and
23 degrees
,
7:07 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … March 30th.
Partly sunny.
South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
and
51 degrees
,
7:01 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … April 6th.
Mostly cloudy.
South wind around 6 mph.
and
33 degrees
,
7:05 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … March 28th.
A slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy.
Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
and
50 degrees
,
7:03 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … April 6th.
A chance of rain showers before midnight, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
🌹🌻🌼Next Sunday is the first day of calendarspring!🌹🌻🌼
I know that’s a pretty meaningless phrase 💭 but at least on the Tiktok you can watch all the videos of the cows getting let out to pasture and grazing down south. 🐮 But we will still be in the frozen tundra up north, although this week doesn’t look that bad.
Sunny and 20 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 25 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 7. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am probably for the bulk of the week and kill off most of the snow. 🌡️
Decided to set my alarm ⏰ for six 6⃣ am and have breakfast at the normal time and go for my morning walk 🚶 like I do most weekdays. I didn’t want to break my habit of being an early riser with the time change. Plus tomorrow is going to be quite mild ☀ and I want to go out for a walk tomorrow before I go to work as I expect a late night at work. 🌃
Traffic is basically non existent at seven 7⃣ o’clock on a Sunday morning. 🌅 The air is so nice and crisp, the skies are a deep blue. It’s cold but lacks the bite of a true winter’s day. Red winged black birds 🐦 are back in mass. The sun has gotten the birds up and awake, even if it is cold.
I cleaned off my truck, 🛻 and now just waiting for the sun to clean it up. 😎 I used my landlords shovel to clean off around my truck, I still haven’t gotten a new snow shovel. But I have a feeling this is the last snowstorm of the winter, and it wasn’t that significant. Guarantees a late March or April blizzard, but I big jacked up truck with a drinking problem, that I can break through the snow bank with. Or that little camp shovel I used to bury shit 💩 and dig through the fire pit for any unburnt garbage to recycle. 🔥
I plan to go to Five Rivers later to go skiing. ⛷ I could go out to Partridge Run or somewhere farther away but I’m not willing to put gas in my truck. Gas prices have come down a bit the past few days, but I’m in no rush to fuel up or burn gas before I need to. Summer is coming, and I’d rather save the fuel for times when I can be floating down that lazy river ⚫ in my tube, drinking cheap beer and maybe eating clams. 🕹 I was going to go skiing yesterday, but it was so cold with that wind, so I decided to stay home and inside where it’s at least somewhat warm. ♨️ I did use the space heater more yesterday then I probably should have, but I probably will turn off the heat before work tomorrow for the rest of the week. If it’s cold, I’ll have my heated blanket.
I am just there will be that additional time in the evening 🌇 as I felt that walking home from the express was a bit dangerous at rush hour 🚘 🚶 in the dark plus I found it hard to get out for my evening walk even at seven o’clock in the cold and dark. Plus if there is a nice weekend it makes it easier to get out of town, assuming gas is still somewhat affordable. ⛽
This week I want to try to get to the car wash again, 🚿 I know it’s winter and it’s tough, and get groceries. I might have to breakdown and get fuel. The last time I put gas in my truck, fuel was still around $3.70 a gallon. Remember those good ol’ days. ⛽ I don’t use that much gas in the winter, but I still like to go out to the folks house on Sunday and get groceries once a week. 👃 Come nicer weather though, I’ll just have to hold my nose and gas ‘er up I guess. And take advantage of the free bus out to Thacher Park once that restarts up out in June.
Every day, I just feel like everything is getting older, falling apart, wearing out. The incident last week were my trash can lid blew off again in the windy stormy weather on Tuesday, got hit for a third or forth time, and this time really damaged, was such a set back in my life. It sounds silly, but it really was pretty bad, with so much things weighting me down. I really need to take some broken things that are garbage and bottles and cans to recycling center. As they say, you can’t burn everything.
On paper, things I doing well in my life, I finally have that mid-level executive position with a good paycheck. I have a corner office, the nice wooden desk with a brass lamp. Often the investigations we do and I coordinate with staff are quite interesting, often challenging but interesting at the same time. I make pretty good money, even though most of the money lately seems to go towards tax and paying the rent, that is after I try to put a little away for a better tomorrow.
I have a vision and a hope for a better tomorrow. Every time I save with each paycheck, I know I am coming closer to that dream, but I have increasing concerns that I might not be reachable. Not for a lack of money, although it is hard to grow savings lately with the interest rate so low, and the markets in the crapper. But because maybe it never was a realistic option in the first place. Time goes by, money grows, that’s all the ever seems to change in my life. My apartment is cold and miserable. The buses are still the same, the winters long and harsh.
Someday, I know I will own my own land. If I can only get there. But money grows so slowly, while expenses on everything else grows quickly. Having more money at work hasn’t made life better or me happier, but it has somewhat increased the rate at which I’ve been able to save and invest. Yet, it still seems like the dream of the homestead, living off-grid, out in the country, remains so far away. It just seems like I am still stuck here in Delmar, in my cold apartment, riding the bus back and forth to work.
Like clockwork, the seasons will change, I’ll be able to once again sleep with the windows open. I’ll be able to regularly get out of town, have fires up in the woods. Pass the time, maybe without much meaning. Get closer to that dream, a world of cowboys and cabins, homesteaders and off-griders that I watch on Youtube, although not as much as I once did as the dream fades. Places where you can own whatever guns you want, shoot them, have fires and burn whatever you want. The west is still a lot more wild then back east.
Who knows what next year brings. I’m completely horrified that I will be 40 next year. Yes, I’ve worked hard to get where I am professionally, but who knows what that will bring. I don’t even know if my job will last that long — although I work hard, produce good results, and know if I apply myself, there will be other opportunities available. And maybe if I do move to a different career, it will be a chance to move somewhat else, build the life I actually want. Saving and investing money is fine, but money is just a number unless you turn it into land, a tractor, chain saw, or a manure spreader.
I am thinking about going to skiing later, but when that wind pick up, I’m like it’s warm inside and cold and howling outside. ⛷ But I hate to miss my steps for the day. I don’t know how big of a snow storm this will turn out to be, but ultimately I’m not that worried that I don’t have a snow shovel. I should buy one, but money is tight, I’m broke, and I don’t need one unless I go camping or we actually get a big snow storm, and I’m sure as hell hoping that this is last big blast of winter.
Sunday is going to be kind of cold too, ❄️ but with the fresh snow it would be good to skiing. I probably wouldn’t bother to dig out my truck tomorrow, especially without a shovel, but I plan to go out and see the folks and do my laundry so I have clean clothes for work. 👔
Then the forecast looks much nicer for the work week. 😎 Why can’t we have nice weather for the work week? I hear the really long range is talking about rain for next weekend, which is good for the fire danger side of things, but I would rather have nicer weather for the weekend. But I guess with gas being so expensive, all that would mean is playing in the mud puddles at Five Rivers. 🐸 As who has the money these days to get out of town? Rent is do in a few week, as is auto insurance bill, even though I don’t drive much, they still want another big check from me. 🤑
Today. Feels like … February 13th.
Snow. Areas of blowing snow after 4pm. Temperature falling to around 21 by 5pm.
Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.
and
35 degrees
,4 max wind chill,
5:59 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … February 10th.
A chance of snow before 7pm, then a chance of snow showers between 7pm and midnight. Areas of blowing snow between 11pm and 4am. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing.
Wind chill values as low as zero. Breezy, with a west wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Good morning! Happy Saturday. It’s another cold and snowy weekend. ❄️
🌹🌻🌼Only 8 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼
Snow and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Breezy, ️20 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 20. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 2 pm. 🌡️
This morning started out as rain and ice ⛈ but now it’s turned to snow. I am not sure how much snow we are expected to get, but already the library is closed for the day. 📚 It’s fine, I have unlimited data on my phone, and I can find ways to keep myself busy and moving forward.
I think I will probably end up staying home 🏘 and maybe working on some maps and GIS projects. I should look and see if there are any camping or outdoors maps I need to update. But I don’t do many anymore, as I’ve done most of the ones for the state, and truth be told the DEC does much better maps now then years ago. 🏕 I also am kind of bored with that, looking at new projects and skills to learn. Maybe I’ll do so some work with the tax rolls. I have some ideas on PostgresSQL queries I can do for interesting maps to make up. And maybe something with daylight savings time.
At times I’m hopeful to get out skiing this afternoon, ⛷ but it depends a lot on the weather. At times the snow looks like quite delightful and other times the wind whips around like there is no tomorrow. Maybe I can just sit by the heater and be warm, watch Youtube videos. But I sure would like to get in my steps today, maybe with the skis. Or I could trudge through the snow 👣 and go for a walk.
I guess that’s a change, usually it snows on Friday. Then fairly cold on Sunday ☀ might be good for skiing 🎿. Then mild come next week. With the time change, the evenings will be a lot longer. 🌆 Just got to make it through this weekend, and hopefully things will be better. Then again, lately that’s been my motto for my life.
Today. Feels like … March 26th.
Mostly cloudy.
Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
and
49 degrees
,
5:58 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … April 6th.
Rain likely, mainly after 4am. Cloudy.
South wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
33 degrees
,
6:10 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … February 13th.
Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 8am. Temperature falling to around 24 by 5pm. Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.
and
35 degrees
,9 max wind chill,
5:59 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … February 10th.
A chance of snow before 7pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 7pm and 10pm. Mostly cloudy.
Northwest wind around 17 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
and
16 degrees
,2 max wind chill,
7:08 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … February 8th.
Partly sunny.
West wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
🌹🌻🌼Only 9 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼
In case you live under a rock, spring starts a week from Sunday. ⛰ But first, it seems that we are going to get a snow storm on Saturday 🌨 but I’m not sure how long it will last. Going to be in the fifties most of next week.
Ice fog 🌫 and 29 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 8 am. 🌡️
It’s kind of a cold and dreary morning for my morning commute. 🎧 My wireless headphones quit working, it’s annoying as my other headphones are in the office. I’ll have to go get them when I get into the office and then I can use them when I go for my walk on my plaza. I missed by 10,000 step goal on Tuesday and Wednesday, and will probably miss it again tomorrow with the snow and wind coming. 🌬 That said, maybe I’ll get out skiing tomorrow 🎿, I might do the rail trail.
I also need to get my weekly assignment done for my GIS class. 🗺 I got to make a track with my phone. I actually did one earlier in the week of my bus ride home, but it’s super boring, as it’s just the bust route. 🚌 There is one section on the track where the bus got into the other lane to avoid a construction closure, 🚧 but other then that, it’s nothing to write back home about.
I am not happy about the coming snowstorm for Saturday, 🌨 but hopefully it won’t snow that much as I don’t have a snow shovel. Well by next week, with warmer weather expected, I don’t think it will stick around. At least I can get out skiing later on, maybe Sunday. ⛷ I don’t know, I’m just tired and burnt out from the week that way.
