Good evening! Can you believe another week has come and gone? I’m just glad we are done with the real cold for a while and I can turn down the heat and not freeze my butt off walking 🚶.

I find it hard to believe the first week of my forties has come and gone. 🎂 It was such an ordinary week, backgrounds and committee agendas, except for the carrot 🥕 cake they had for my birthday at the gang meeting. So sweet especially as I’ve cut almost all sugary substances out of my diet.

Mostly cloudy with filtered moon light and 38 degrees at the Delmar for the evening walk. ☁ There is a south breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing around 5 am. ☃️

Today I walked 🚶 ten miles between my morning, evening walks and Bennett Hill and over two miles with my parents dog 🐶 and then Wally World. I got needles so I can fix the missing button on one of my dress shirts 🕴️and some more fruits and vegetables. I had plenty of pasta and juice 🥤 and stuff like that as I’ve really been cutting back with my calorie reduction program, splitting meals 🍴 into two and freezing to save money 💵 and improve health. Over 22,000 steps for the day. 👣

Tonight will be cloudy ☁, with a low of 31 degrees at 5am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 30th. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Makes up for being so cold on Saturday. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1948.

Ended up buying 4 1/2 of bananas at Wally World. 🍌 I think I may have gone bananas. 🐒 But they were 53 cents a pound, which isn’t a good excuse for buying them, but I am trying to fit more healthy food into my diet, and bananas are a good snack, along with oranges, 🍊 which I brought into my office. Most of them were still green too, so they should be good all week. Started a compost container in the kitchen, as I don’t want to be dumping all those rhines in with kitchen burnables — they won’t burn well or at least I’ll want a hot fire 🔥 before the try to burn them. But I can probably take them out to my parents house for composting if I ask. I know I need to live out in the country and have hogs. 🐖

Watched a video about flossing your teeth better. 🦷 I have to admit I’ve not been good about flossing though I realize it’s not my fault as I doubt I was instructed as a child 🧒. While I don’t have soda or candy 🍬 at home and drink a lot of milk 🥛, I’m a bit horrified how many people I went to school with have teeth problems or missing teeth in their forties. Children of Appalachia really don’t get the dental care they need but that’s in a large part how shitty health care is in America. My teeth aren’t perfect – I resisted getting extra braces and skipped dentist visits for a decade after college 🎓 but they’re generally healthy bar some chips and that one filled cavity.

Been thinking about making an doctors appointment for a physical. 👨‍⚕️ While I think I am generally healthy, it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten a good check over. I haven’t had my blood pressure checked in a number of years, weighted or general check up. I guess the value is limited, but there is no cost for the yearly physical and maybe I will find a health issue early before it becomes a problem. In my forties, I’m trying to be healthier, so when I own my own land, I will be able to enjoy it. 🐷

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon. Yeap, you can see it through the clouds. At 7 PM, the moon was in the east (80°) at an altitude of 19° from the horizon, some 251,652 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 15^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺

The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:37 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:06 am in the east-southeast (111°) and last for 3 minutes and 7 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 9 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:47 am with sun in the east-southeast (118°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 47 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over last night.

I gassed up Big Red and gave him a bath. 🚿 The car wash was only four bucks as somebody left time on the machine which gave me time to pressure wash the under carriage. More big hunks of rust fell off, I need to paint the door it again. Going to spray WD 40 on it for the mean time. I was very low on gas ⛽ as I hadn’t fueled up since before the Madison County trip so its not that big of deal but it was $85 in fuel. I know yikes, when I’m trying to cut expenses. 🤯 My next truck will be smaller I think. 🚚 If I had a farm and had to move cattle – maybe someday – I’ll want a big truck but right now it’s fun but excessively expensive to operate for the things I do. 🤠

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny ☁, with a high of 42 degrees at 10am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 6th. North wind 5 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1991. 10.8 inches of snow fell back in 1978.❄

In four weeks on March 5 the sun will be setting in the west (263°) at 5:50 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 38 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 31 and 15 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 41 and 23 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1964.

Looking ahead, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 5 weeks, Last Day of Winter 🏂 is in 6 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 9 weeks, Average High is 60 🌷 is in 10 weeks, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 3 months, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 13 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 14 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 4 months, Fathers Day 👨 is in 18 weeks, Hottest Time of the Year 😅 is in 5 months, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 5 months, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 23 weeks, Work Like a Dog Day 🐩 is in 6 months, 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 is in 31 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 32 weeks, October 🎃 is in 34 weeks, Average High is 65 🍂 is in 35 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 10 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 44 weeks and Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 46 weeks.