Good evening! Partly to mostly cloudy and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 52 degrees. We had some breaks in the clouds but now it’s gotten fairly overcast again.

Tonight marks one week until summer ☀ and hopefully the legislative session will be done, I’ll be home by five o’clock and can enjoy evenings in the park and weekends in the wilderness. I think I do a good job at the sometimes challenging aspects of my job but I look forward to a relatively quiet summer at work without wearing a suit and tie. 😎 Not that I wear a suit, just a blazer. I’m not into being super swanky.

I was feeling pretty good today but the headache and aching returned a bit tonight. 😖 Not terrible and I did go for my evening walk. That said I hope this doesn’t last all summer. If it gets worse I tell myself I’ll have to visit the doctor. Crickets are doing their things, rumble from the rail yard, it’s actually a bit cool out back. Getting late, I should head in soon.

They ordered dinner for us at work today, so which was good because the refrigerator at work quit working so I think my dinner might have spoiled. 🍲 I did move it to the other refrigerator at work and brought it home and into the freezer. I’ll give it the sniff test and decide if it’s compost or dinner over the weekend. Got done with work in time to catch the 8:15 bus home, which was an enormous articulated bus. 🚄 What a waste in my book, the enormous bus was virtually empty.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 52 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 1st. Maximum dew point of 52 at 10pm. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1970.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 94% illuminated. The moon will set at 3:38 am. The Strawberry Moon 🍓 is on Sunday night with a chance of showers. The sun will rise at 5:16 am with the first light at 4:42 am, which is 3 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 42 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 29 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 67 degrees at 12pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 9th. Another cool day. Maximum dew point of 52 at 7am. South wind 8 to 17 mph becoming west in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1892.

Saturday might be okay 👌 but I’m not thinking it will be a real nice weekend. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 79. South wind 7 to 15 mph. Maximum dew point of 54 at 8pm. ⛅ Sunday, showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8am and 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. ☔ Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 66 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

I doubt I’ll be working this weekend 🏢 but tomorrow could be a fairly late night at work. I’m not going to drive in but I can always get my truck later on if necessary. I doubt it though, I think they’ll move through the agreed 👍 upon rent bills pretty much in the daylight. There are some decent protection for upstate renters in there. I know as long as I live in New York, I’ll rent a small apartment and take transit to work. 🏡

Maybe for ten more years, although I guess staying with the state until age 55 is financially sensible 💵 but I also want to get on with the rest of my life. It all depends on how much longer I have family locally – my parents are getting up there in the years and I don’t have really any other relatives locally. I’d like to live some place cheaper than New York in state with more freedom, off grid in a cabin / hobby farm out in the country. 👴 I tell you, I’m already getting so gray and I don’t feel that old, even when I put the suit and tie on. 👔

I look at summer in the short term but I do dream about the future. 🔮 Camping on dirt roads is a lot of fun ⛺ as is kayaking fishing 🎣 and cooling off on the Potholers but I do dream of a world based on reality rather than escape. 🌍 I do watch too many hours of people making their lives homesteading and farming, living off grid, hunting and fishing, making a good life for themselves and their families. I hate the indignities of living in New York and the urban life but I’m saving for a better tomorrow.

I got the wire I need for connecting the second accessory battery 🔋 to the proper side of the long voltage disconnect. This will protect it from under voltage ⚡ when camping. I also will wire up the solar panel gauge and always on USB ports for charging things like my flashlight 🔦 or portable USB battery bank. Then maybe go for a walk out to Five Rivers or some place I can walk 🚶to on foot. Might need to pick up a few groceries next week, although not a lot.

In four weeks on July 11 the sun will be setting at 8:33 pm,🌄 which is 39 seconds earlier then tonight. Yeap, days will be getting shorter. I’ll probably be packing for my summer vacation then. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 83 and 63 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1936.

Looking ahead, Summer ️⛱️ is in 1 week, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 3 weeks, Hottest Time of the Year 😅 is a month away, August 🌻 is in 7 weeks, Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆 is in 16 weeks and Average High is 60 🍂 is in 4 months.