Oneida Lake
In a few places you can make out Oneida Lake along the trail off the ridge.
Taken on Saturday November 7, 2020 at Canastota-Cazenovia State Trailway.
Madison County, NY
I don’t understand why people care so much about the presidency
I don’t understand why people care so much about the presidency. I can’t think of how the White House has ever affected me.
I don’t own a color television so I don’t have to worry about indigestion during dinner. But there really aren’t that many FBI agents on the highways writing parking and speeding tickets.
State government is vastly more important than some remote federal government that doesn’t effect the lives of ordinary citizens.
My gawd Chittenango Falls State Park is crowded. 🏞️👩👩👧👧🌲👨👨👧
My gawd Chittenango Falls State Park is crowded. 🏞️👩👩👧👧🌲👨👨👧
I guess that’s to be expected on such a truly beautiful day. I’m just trying to maintain social distancing and be as generally anti-social as possible because I don’t want the Corona and I like my solitude. I know the back trails.
Went for a drive around Fenner to see the wind farm and see the great views from the viewshed. Your up high there with great views of the gorge, Oneida Lake and many scenic farms. Plus it’s always fun to see all the farms that still use burn barrels for their household trash and net wrap. Lol! I stopped briefly at the Fenner Wind Farm Discovery Center. And I don’t know, the turbine blades are big but not as big as you might think.
Driving the back roads, singing along with Merle Haggard’s I’m Just a White Boy looking at the piles of manure, rusty tractors junk cars and falling down houses rapidly being taken over by the brambles. God’s Country, the wild and free life.
Google Photos says I watched the sunrise today from the exact same location as November 7, 2010. 🌅
Google Photos says I watched the sunrise today from the exact same location as November 7, 2010. 🌅
A decade has come and gone but much remains the same. I still love spending time out in Madison County, I continue to work towards owning my own land out in country where I can do my own thing and enjoy my own life. Have fires, watch a million more sunrises and sunsets, listen to coyotes and the cattle bellowing in the distance.
Goals take time, but slowly and steadily savings grows. I work hard, make good money. Work comes first but I still make a lot of time to enjoy the wilderness. I’m trying to invest heavily and save for retirement, so when the time comes I can have my own land, burn what I want, have livestock I kill myself and eat, and own whatever guns I want without asking government permission.
Good things come to those who wait and plan. I’m committed to building a better future for myself out in the country, maybe in a place like Madison County although with fewer restrictions than New York. But it just takes a lot of hard work, step by step to get to a better tomorrow.
Drinking coffee ☕
Really nice morning today.
Taken on Saturday November 7, 2020 at Stoney Pond State Forest.Making breakfast at camp 🍳
Eggs 🥚 and sausage for breakfast.
Taken on Saturday November 7, 2020 at Stoney Pond State Forest.November 7, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend in Biden’s America! Just biding my time this morning, watching the sun rise ☀, next to the heater on this quite mild November morning. While it’s not over until the fat ladies in the electoral college sing 🎶, hopefully with masks 😷 on, it seems likely to it will be Biden this time. Two weeks to Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌. Late this year as Sunday was November 1st. Mostly sunny and 38 degrees at the Stoney Pond State Forest. There is a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃.
Going to be a beautiful day ☕ as witnessed by the dawn and the sunrise 🌅. Quiet in the woods except for some birds 🐦 and the rumble on the distant four lanes of US 20. Looking forward to hiking around Chittenango State Park and maybe some of the Link Trail outside of Fenner. 🚶🏻 Then get back to camp ⛺ before another long and dark night. But at least it’s not particularly cold.
Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 69 degrees at 2pm. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 24th. Maximum dew point of 47 at 10am. West wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 46 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1938. 4.5 inches of snow fell back in 1886.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:47 am with sun having an altitude of 30.7° from the due south horizon (-39.8° vs. 6/21). It’s amazing how low the noon day sky these days is. A six foot person will cast a 10.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:07 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (241°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (248°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 8 seconds with dusk around 5:17 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:52 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 67 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 10 hours and one minute of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 27 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 46 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 29th. Southwest wind around 7 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 23 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1971.
As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm with dusk at 5:05 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 47 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 1931.
