Good evening! Partly cloudy and 23 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around noontime. 🌡️

Not a half cold evening for the end of January. 🚶 I went for my evening walk pretty late tonight around 9 pm. Lately been going out much earlier. But I’ll still have enough time for a good night’s sleep. I’m looking forward to the nights being warm enough to sit out back especially before the bugs get bad. I think I will do a lot more reading 📖 out back.

I didn’t spend any time reading 📖 it or working on typing the labels for John Wolcott 🔖 as I promised myself I would. John has a bit of a cold and so do I have some minor symptoms so I don’t want to get him sicker. Once I get the labels typed I’ll ask Lynne Jackson to see if she can print them. That said, she’s very busy with fighting the Crossgates Mall Apartment complex now that the DEIS is posted – I’m doing some of the research but I’m no expert nor do I know how to find appropriate experts. But others know how to do that. I can just raise my voice, kick in a few bucks and help with a little GIS analysis.

I made fish sticks 🐠 and veggies for dinner in the oven. Good enough for a change from pasta. I rode the exercise bike 🚲 for a while, watched a little YouTube video I had downloaded and worked on some code. I keep telling myself that I should get out my soldering iron and build some electronics. 🔬 I like building shit but I’m so bad at soldering. I should learn wire wrapping.

Dentist visit went well today.🦷 No dental health issues, except I should floss more regularly. I need to buy newer floss, the stuff I have is like ten plus years old and comes apart when I use it. I did have a burn on my gums from pasta I made up earlier in the week. 🍝 I credit my teeth health to all the milk I drink and how don’t have candy 🍬 or soda at home and only beer rarely when I camp. 🍻

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 16 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 6th. Maximum wind chill around 20 at 1am; South wind 3 to 5 mph. 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 -3 degrees. The record low of -26 occurred back in 1948.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 32% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (255°) at an altitude of 20° from the horizon, some 251,389 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 8^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west (274°) at 10:51 pm. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Sunday, February 9.

The darkest hour is at 12:09 am, followed by dawn at 6:43 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:13 am in the east-southeast (114°) and last for 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Sunrise is 58 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:55 am with sun in the east-southeast (121°). Tonight will have 14 hours and 5 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 18 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 37 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 23rd. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 14 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1913. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

It should be interesting to play ▶ with that little six dollar mini camera 🎥 I got on Ali Express. I think it will be very useful if I can use it plugged into the charger and just record video anytime it senses motion. We’ll see how it works, it’s not a big investment. So many little tiny mini and spy cameras on the AliExpress – you really have no idea when somebody might be recording you. And they’re so cheap too – some are even hidden in USB charging hubs, fake dice 🎲 and even pens ✒ – and they’re only a few bucks. All kinds of audio recorders too.

Thinking 💭 a little about spring time trips ⛺ – I’d like to do Stoney Pond in Morrisville then drive south to Chenango County and maybe Long Pond in April. Things could and probably will change though. I would probably get away mid April maybe before things green up and the bugs are out.

I am still thinking about using the birthday and Christmas money 💵 I got from my parents to get an enclosed picnic tent 🎪 – that would really help to make Memorial Day Weekend with the black flies and any modestly rainy days in the woods much more enjoyable. I got to read up on it – probably too late for the end of season sales now and I doubt things will be on sale again right away so it’s no rush. When camping it would be nice to be able to sit out on a rainy or buggy day and not be trapped in my little camp tent or truck cap.

In four weeks on February 27 the sun will be setting in the west (259°) at 5:41 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 16 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 15 and 8 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 38 and 20 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 1997.

Looking ahead, Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 is in 1 week, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 3 weeks and Flower Moon 🌕 is in 14 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 16 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸