Good evening! Partly clear in Delmar. 🌉 Sixty two degrees. There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees. All things considered, a pretty pleasant evening.

I told myself that I should work outside today ☀ with the great weather but I was super busy with work so I didn’t go outside except for my morning stroll around the Swift Preserve. And then in the evening, a walk around the Albany Pine Bush. 🌲🌲

Also attended the Save the Pine Bush protest at Guilderland Town Hall 🏛️ and held up signs wearing masks. 😷 Town leaders were so afraid 😨 of the public and a bunch of senior citizens 👵🏻 and television reporters 📺 they had to enter the back door 🚪 of Town Hall by police escort. 👮🏼 Not sure why the town planning board is so afraid of a bunch of elderly 👵🏻 seniors with paper signs.

The fight for the Pine Bush seems endless and thankless against the big developers 🏗️ but it’s worth it because if you don’t fight in the trenches, who will. Even though the battle is ongoing its worthwhile. While eventually when I own my off-grid property 🏚️I’ll probably be non political when I’m in Albany it’s fun to fight the developers the best I can and keep pour wild land wild. 🐦 We got good media coverage tonight. 🎥

The walk around the Pine Bush 🦋 was really nice but it got dark quickly with some clouds pushing in after sunset 🌇. Grass was super high 🌾and I didn’t want to catch Lyme disease🕷️ again so as soon as I got home I took a shower 🚿 because I was wearing shorts while I was walking in in the Pine Bush. 😳

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 54 degrees at 2am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 9th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 6am. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 64% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the south-southwest (197°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, some 231,153 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 February 18^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 5:46 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:15 am in the east-northeast (75°) and last for 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:53 am with sun in the east (82°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 36 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 8am and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Mostly cloudy 🌩, with a high of 74 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 11th. Maximum dew point of 65 at 2pm. Southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1948.

I think I’m happy 😊 with the haircut 💇🏻 I gave myself. That sharper trimmer did a nice job although I may want to trim behind my ears 👂🏻 a little closer. I think next time I might also use a slightly longer cutting guard. My sideburns though are growing in quite gray now. 🧔🏻

I don’t see myself heading out of town the next two weeks ✌️ although I guess depending on how many Zoom Meetings I have coming up I could take a long weekend at some point. I don’t mind using my phone 📱 or the cellular internet on my work laptop but I really need Wi-Fi for Zoom. I guess I could go up to the Spectulator Library. Maybe after the holiday weekend when they crowds filter out from the Adirondack Park. The only concern then is the days are starting to get short and the sun angle is decling which means less solar power.

In four weeks on September 23 the sun will be setting in the west (270°) at 6:50 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 54 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had humid, partly sunny, warm weather, rain showers and temperatures between 86 and 66 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 69 and 49 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1895.

I joined a group on Facebook about backyard pig raising. 🐖 Some people raise some beautiful hogs including here in New York. After finishing up that book 📙 I was reading 📖 I find that Facebook group endlessly fascinating. Maybe because farming and homesteading is so much different than my every day work. That said a pair of hogs and two ton of grain run through them can turn some pretty marginal dirt or bare rock into good soil. 💩 I do wonder about invasive species – while grain isn’t likely to introduce them any time you disturb soil it makes it so much easier for them to take root. Next I think I’ll get a book 📙 about goats. 🐐

Looking ahead, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 9 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 10 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 11 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 3 months, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 15 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 16 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 17 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 4 months, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 18 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 20 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 21 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 5 months, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 24 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 25 weeks.