Good evening! Partly clear and 71 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. It’s quite pleasant sitting out back, compared to being in the house. Very starry. 🌟

I talked to my new neighbor about the parking, 🅿 and it turns out that I’m not blocking him and I can park back in my normal spot, so I can park in the back and sit on the tailgate with my truck. He just has a second big SUV he uses for road trips and his normal car is out front. It’s not like I’m not home to move my truck as when I’m home I’m usually remote working. 💻 I might be working occasionally downtown but it seems like the office 🏢 downtown will be largely closed through the end of the year due to social distancing requirements. 👥

It was another hot day at least working inside. 😰 I have to try to work outside more. I also want to start doing more work on the library Wi-Fi as I noticed a slight uptick in my monthly average bandwidth and because the cellular internet can be slow and unreliable at times. Plus at the library I don’t have to worry about checking a personal site or my personal email 📧 at work. I do miss having my air conditioning at the office downtown. I’ve heard they’re not planning on normal operations returning until at least winter 2021. 👾 Old Corona is going to be with use for a while.

With the sticky weather 💦 lately I’ve having trouble sleeping 😴 and was feeling miserable by mid afternoon. I did buy mint crumble ice cream 🍨and that should have made me happy 😊 and it did but I still needed toothpicks on my eye lids to keep them open. 👀 Maybe I should buy more sleeping pills 💊 and plan on early bed. I can say I’ll sleep in later but I don’t despite working at home. I charish my morning walk 🚶 and with the sun bright so early, who can sleep? ☀

Tonight will have patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 62 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 63 at 10pm. Light north wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1950.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 30% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 4:57 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:31 am in the east-northeast (59°) and last for 3 minutes and 22 seconds. Sunrise is 49 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:13 am with sun in the east-northeast (66°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 59 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 28 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. Typical for Tomorrow. Maximum dew point of 64 at 8am. Another summer day for the muggers. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1997.

Tomorrow I told John Wolcott I will stop over to his house after work. 🔎 Maybe we’ll find some jewels in his files 📂 but probably not. Still kind of interesting to see what’s out there. He has some boxes of Save the Pine Bush files that would be quite interesting to explore. I also am hoping to pick up soft vinyl – fiberglass screening to patch the hole in my screen tent. I figure that might be a good project to do up at camp ⛺ when I’m not at the Potholers cooling off. Good practice at my sewing skills. 🧵

In four weeks on August 11 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (291°) at 8:02 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 23 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 80 and 54 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 61 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1944.

Lately with all that’s been going on with work, my travels and everything else, 📝 I’ve been kind of neglecting my blog. I’m also working on an alternative photo uploader for my blog but I’ve struggled to get it working well. 📷 I’m also working on a new page 📄 and table about Moose River Plains camping opportunities.

Aa much as I’d like more stay home time 🏡 to save money, I’m thinking about a trip to the Adirondacks this weekend. I am probably going to request next Monday off so I can spend a long weekend at Piseco Powley Road and the Potholers. I’m thinking of driving up on Thursday night, camping near Speculator, working at the library or along the lake all day than driving 🚘 down to Piseco Friday after work and camping at Powley Place through Monday. That said, Friday looks kind of shitty now. I will want to get to the Potholers at least once this summer even if it sucks that the road is still closed on the south end. I also want to see Powley Place and how much it’s changed since the bridge was destroyed. I’m tentatively thinking about doing summer vacation the first week of August this year, but where I’ve yet to decide.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 16 weeks.