Good morning! Happy Sunday. After the rain late last night it has cleared and is quite warm and sunny. Not expected to stay so warm though with the temperatures dropping all day long. Two weeks to 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆. I like coming home and the sun is still up. Partly sunny and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 The dew point is 53 degrees. It’s fun to be thinking about the dew point in January although I should close my windows before I go for my morning walk. 🚶 Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 8 pm. ☃️

Just got done baking the qeiche for breakfast. 🍳 Took a while to cook up but I was up by 6:30 as I no longer am sleeping in on weekends 😴 to try to maximize my time and improve health. I like watching the sun rise each morning I knew it would be a beautiful morning and so it turned out. It was so awesome waking up with the windows open.

Soon I’m going to walk the rail trail 🚈 that is after I take a pee and poop 💩 and change my socks and replace my Don’t Tread on Me: Liberty or Death 🗽 with a long sleeve shirt 👚 as the mercury is likely to drop before I get home. 🏡 Plus I figure wearing a pro-tea party shirt is probably considered a hate crime these days on New York. I’m no fan of Trump 🎺 but I like my guns 🔫, my freedom ✊ and someday want to live off grid and farm 🚜 probably with a well ventilated burn barrel out back 🔥 .

But I’m voting for Elizabeth Warren in the primary as long as she stays off my land 🐷 and gives me affordable health care so I can retire relatively young, focus on my off grid cabin and hobby farm. Working a real job just for health insurance 😷 in my sixties would ducking suck. I’d rather be chopping wood, hauling manure on my own land and checking a trap line for dogs I can harvest their pelts to pass my time.🐺 Buy real fur, it’s good for the planet 🌏 if you like healthy working forests! Working in the city might pay big bucks but it’s so damn depressing especially in a windowless office. 💻

I just so wish there was more private locations along the rail trail to take a piss. 👨 I totally get it, they were to build outhouses along the rail trail citiods would be shooting heroin 💉in them but I find I often need to take a piss when I’m walking 🚹 and it’s not like when I’m in the woods and can pee on any old tree🌲, that is after I check above to make sure that I’m not pissing under somebody above me in a tree stand. Sounds like I have personal experience but I’m sure anybody who has field dressed a deer knows what male sex organs look like for most antlered animals.

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 39 by 5pm. Sin☀ Windy, with a west wind 25 to 30 mph becoming northwest 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. 🍃 No real wind yet this morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 2018. 12.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

It sounds like it’s going to get cold and windy but so far it’s beautiful ☀ with no wind or clouds but I’m sure the trails are pretty wet so alas I’m planning on doing the rail trail this morning for a while. Later I might hike somewhere else but I don’t want to be ankle deep in mud. 👢 Rain on January can really guck up the soil substructure. Not only is it tough in your ankles it really ducks 🐦 up the trails. Later on its Sunday dinner at the folks house! 🍲 Big pot of ham stew I hear. 😋

That said, later on I might go up to Partridge Run State Game Management Area later on if it’s quite sunny ☀ and not too cold. I always like spending time out in the wilderness country and it’s not going to as crowded as the rail trail.🌲If I walked on old Partridge Run road it’s not likely to be muddy but they probably still have snow and ice up there so I’d want my micro spikes. ❄ Might be too cold though, but I miss spending time out in the woods and in the country.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.7° from the due south horizon (-45.1° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:59 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) starting at 4:40 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:14 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:50 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 41 degrees. Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest. Today will have 9 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 27 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 23 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 8th. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1968.

🌹🌻🌼Only 67 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

But it feels like spring already this morning. 67 bottles of beer on the walls, 67 bottles of beer. And I don’t even drink any more. 🍻 Well except in the wilderness. Spring is coming and so are the black flies and trout fishing. 🎣 Big Red gets so muddy come spring with those dirt roads in Madison and Chenango County. Muddier than the cows in spring with those dirt roads ! 🐮 I love 😍 being out in the real wilderness of deep rural New York.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm with dusk at 5:30 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 28 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1950.