Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. As Macías once played during his Christmas Day rock and roll concert in the stadium, Those were the Days. Talk about pure evil in a rather hilarious way redefining a song.

Partly cloudy and 22 degrees in Delmar. ⛅ Calm wind. What you might expect for a January morning but doesn’t feel really cold because it’s not and there is no wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️

A pretty sunrise 🌅 for the morning walk 🚶 though I’m running a few minutes late so I’m walking briskly but it feels good. Got to get my steps 👣 in although so far this week I’ve successful at that. As I know to well if I fail my phone 📱 will know and report it to me and I’ll be deemed an object failure who is obese and eats too much dairy. 🐮

Feeling better today, I think I was cold last night because it was a cold evening. ❄️ I could turn up the heat, but once I was in bed under my heated blanket for a few minutes, I was plenty warm and left it for the balance of the night at the lowest setting. The heated blanket 🛌 is still a lot cheaper then turning up the heat.

Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 34 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 4th. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 17 degrees. The record high of 67 was set in 2020. 8.0 inches of snow fell back in 1922.❄

Caught another two mouseys last night 🐁 in the trap. Fished them out, wrapped in some paper and tossed them outside in with the rest of the burnables. 🔥 Works for me. So far I’m happy with the trap. It is doing it’s job, though I am not sure how many more mice there are to catch. I’ll dump out the water out back when it starts to stink. Trap: 3. Mousey: 0. Now I’ll have to patch that mouse hole again in the wall.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.6° from the due south horizon (-45.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Sun angle is finally starting to increase a notable amount. Another sign of the coming days. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:58 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:43 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:13 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:49 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 34 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 26 seconds over today.

After work I promise myself I will go to the laundromat. 👔 I am running out of shirts to wear to work at this point. But it’s good as I know what I will need for the weekend and next week, and by washing my dress clothes they’ll be ready when I come home on Monday from camping.

Tonight will have a chance of snow, mainly after 3am. Cloudy 🌨, with a low of 28 degrees at 5am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 21st. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 6 degrees. The record low of -26 occurred back in 1968.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 33. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 36. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees. I’ll take it. Figuring only a few days ago they were predicting super shitty. I’ll take it as NYE sucked this year. I think I have a nice plan, with some hiking and enjoying some starry nights for Kings Weekend planned out.

Looking ahead for y’all honey lovers, next Wednesday is Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 when the sun will be setting at 4:52 pm with dusk at 5:21 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 34 and 22 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1973. I like honey especially on my pancakes 🥞.