Good evening! Partly clear and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. ✨ Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. More clouds pushed in after dark than in expected. Buggy too.

Listening to Joe Cocker’s With a Little Help from My Friends watching the flicker of the laser lightening bug show with the occasional lightening bug. 🐝 There is not a lot this year because it’s been so cold and damp and probably because it seems like insects are disappearing everywhere. Mosquitos are fairly bad though.

Busy and hectic at work but I think I do a good job at my work. 💼 Greater pay and responsibilities means I work harder for my money. 💵 But I have a talented staff I work with and we do great things I believe. This evening I got home around six, had dinner and went down to the park and re-read part of a Richard Hofstadter I haven’t read 📖 since my college years. I forgot the true pleasure of being down at the library with a book. Most of the time I leave my laptop at work on the weekdays, as I like to have it in the office when I have some downtime and want to check Facebook or my blog without using the state computers.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 55 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 9th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 9pm. Light northwest wind. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1958.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 26% illuminated with the moon setting at 11:45 pm. The moon will rise at 9:33 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with mostly cloudy skies. The Strawberry Moon 🌝 is on Sunday, June 16th. The sun will rise at 5:18 am with the first light at 4:43 am, which is 17 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 47 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 56 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 78 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 14th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 8am. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1999.

I’m thinking tomorrow I want to get an early start and either walk 🚶 or take a bus down to the barber shop 💈for a haircut so I look good for the end of session. My hair has gotten shaggy and I like to look nice unlike some of the people I follow on YouTube. Some of those farmers and off griders are a motley bunch.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 79. North wind 3 to 5 mph. Maximum dew point of 53 at 7am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 81. Maximum dew point of 57 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees.

Maybe I should have decided to head out of town this weekend but after all the rain and the mild spring, I figure the black flies will be bad. 🐜 Summer isn’t over yet plus I’m going to not be so busy with work this autumn so I should have plenty of time to camp. The trail work day should be fun on Saturday and maybe do the Gas Up on Sunday. ☀ I’m hoping the next week will be good.

I ordered another camping hammock. It was a pretty cheap one but the reviews were fairly good for the price. 😴 It’s inexpensive enough that if it doesn’t work out I can get one a little more expensive but I’m hopeful based on the reviews. I have the good straps from the other hammock. I like laying back in the hammock at camp. Price doesn’t always demote quality. Certainly wasn’t the cheapest model but much less than the first one. If it works out I’ll order a second one to keep as a back up. Worth the money when you consider how much I spend on gasoline and supplies while camping.

Next weekend I’m hoping looks nice to get up to the Adirondacks but it’s really too hard to know the weather or work schedule ten days out. 💭 Anything could happen by then. This weekend though staying home meant I could relax and not have to worry about packing up for camp. Two weekends from now Mine Killl pool will be open which is fun.

In four weeks on July 4 the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm,🌄 which is 6 minutes later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny weather and temperatures between 96 and 71 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 104 degrees was set back in 1911.

I wonder if they will have sparklers 🎇 and the alike at the store the next time I shop. They would be fun to take camping the next time I’m up in the wilderness or even save for lighting off when I’m at Moose Plains for the Independence Weekend.

Looking ahead, Summer ️⛱️ is in 2 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 4 weeks, August 🌻 is in 8 weeks and Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆 is in 17 weeks.