That said, I didn’t really make it into the turkey farming part of West Virginia but that’s a popular activity down in parts of the Sweedlin Valley along the Potomac River with its fertile grounds for growing corn and other grains that turkeys like to eat.

Good morning! Happy November! 🦃 Best month of the year unless your a turkey aka incumbent politician about to get voted out of office, lol. Probably not a great time to be a deer or turkey either. 🦌 Cloudy and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃️

It’s been tough getting back into the routine all week after vacation. 🏢 Worse my stomach has been rumbling all week, I’ve tried to be careful what I eat 🍽 and limiting that pea soup with balsamic vinegar and homemade wholewheat bread but it’s so good. It’s been gray and wet out ☁️ which hasn’t improved my mood 😖, the politicians whining excessively on the radio 📻 about everything, my fingers cold 🧤 riding to and from work, dark mornings etc. I wish I was still in West Virginia though my stomach wasn’t much better there either. But forward. 🤮

Riding to work again this morning. 🚲 Another cold start to the day, but this time I’m planning on wearing gloves 🧤 which should help with the fingers. I might get bananas later on in the day at the supermarket on the ride home. 🌆 Still enough daylight at the end of day to ride home, but this is the last week with the time change. ⏲

Eggs 🥚 for breakfast again with all the usual things 🧅 starting with fried onions, spices, mushrooms 🍄 and broccoli 🥦 and lots of turmeric and Chipotle and some MSG. Then topped with a bunch of parmesan and nutritional yeast, the later which adds so much flavor and flakiness plus gives you all the water soluble vitamins you could need for the day. Skipped the cottage cheese today as I didn’t want to open another package of it. I was thinking pancakes, 🥞 but I am bit tired of them for now — maybe tomorrow. I do like all the all-day protein that eggs have in them.

That said, I’m more excited about tomorrow when I bake up more homemade bread 🍞 this time with oats and lots of shredded carrots 🥕 along with 15 bean soup. 🥣 If I decide to head out of town for the weekend, I’ll make two loafs 🍞 🍞 so I have plenty to eat. I might also do more rice and lentils too on the stove, and I have that butternut squash that I might want to cook, though I have still honey dew and an acorn squashed cooked and ready to eat home. 🍠

Today will have a chance of rain showers before 9am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 9am and 10am, then a chance of rain showers after 10am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 43 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 30th. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 69 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1950. 3.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.❄

Lately I’ve been having a lot of issues with an upset stomach and excessive gas. 😫 I think it might be from all the fiber and spices I’ve had in my diet lately. 🫚 I am trying to eat healthy but at times it can be hard to find that right balance. Pea soup with lots of balsamic vinger and whole wheat bread is particularly tough on my stomach, 🍲 but I do like it a lot. I am trying to drink more water with it to see if it helps, along with taking Gas-X. But it can be rough at times. And if I drink too much water, then I have to piss all the time. The good news though is that I’m continuing to loose weight and be healthier. 🍭 So far I’ve resisted all of the Halloween “free candy” that’s been popping up around the office.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 33° from the due south horizon (-37.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:10 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (244°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (251°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:50 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 4 seconds with dusk around 6:18 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:53 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 10 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over today.

Tomorrow evening I get my flu and COVID-19 vaccine. 💉 After I made my appointment I found out that pharmacists ⚕ at CVS are on strike 🤜 but at this point I’m not going to cancel my appointment tomorrow because I want the vaccines to be full strength 💪 by the Thanksgiving holiday when all the sick people start coming back in the office after traveling to visit family, 👪 spreading the COVID-19 and flu around. I don’t wear my mask 😷 all the time yet but anytime I go into a crowded place I do. And I’m still taking the stairs 🧗‍♂️ avoiding crowded elevators and burning extra calories.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 28 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 26th. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light west after midnight. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 2002.

I haven’t done an evening walk 🚶 I a while but I should try to get back in the habit especially with the time change next week and only being able to ride to work but not home due to the darkness. 🚲 It’s fine it will also make mornings brighter 🔆 at least for a while. I’ll still be up before sunlight baking 🍞 and cooking 🍳 but it won’t be quite as dark.

Cloudy ⛅ but fairly mild this weekend for the first weekend of November. Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees. 🐮 The weekend doesn’t look that wet but I’m still watching the forecast to decide if I should take off Monday and do a long weekend in Madison County including Election Day. ⛺ Camping seems like a good thing to do that day.

Looking ahead, next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:41 pm with dusk at 5:10 pm (Standard Time). Then you won’t have to look at all those silly lawn signs from the giant penis measuring contest. On that day in 2022, we had sunny and temperatures between 53 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1975.