Good evening! Partly cloudy and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Laying out back in my truck cap, reading 📖 a book about tiny house living. Nice evening. The snow is gone once again but we could some day once again have snow in the closing days of March or April. But I’m not urging it on. ❄ Honest, I want the snow to be home so I can travel and camp. At least it won’t be cold for a while. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 4 am. ☃️

It was another pretty quiet day at work, 💻 I went down to the library for a while to do some research I couldn’t just do on my phone. I then came home and sat my phone and nothing further came in. I ended up sitting out back, working on some blog posts and doing some reading 📖 until it was time to clock out. 🕒 Things have been so disorderly since the mandatory work from home started and while it’s good to be employed – unlike the millions that aren’t – it’s scary times for sure. 👾 I just keep reading the headlines and I get the numbers game society is up against and both the crushing economic challenges we face and the near impossibility of stopping a virus that doubles every six days, which means every six day you raise it to the n-th power.

I just want things to return to normal. 🚍 Get up every morning, catch the bus downtown, take the express bus home at five o’clock, 🕔head out of town in the summer to camp ⛺, not excessively worry about washing one’s hands or touching a public door knob. 🚪 Simple things that are gone from our lives today. Old routines everyday at work, a predictable future 🔮. It does save time working from home and I can sleep 😴 in late but I liked the old routine, visiting my family 👪 and seeing my colleagues at work.

Later on in the evening, I walked down to the park ⛲. Odd to go down there on such a nice night and see nobody there except some outlaw teens playing basketball 🏀 at least until the cops 👮 see it and tell them to go home. I thought 💭 about bringing my book down there to read 📖 but truth be told I didn’t really want to sit on the park bench and sitting on grass is not a good idea as I’ve picked up ticks there before and this is a bad tick year. 🐜

Honestly I don’t want to get Coronavirus if I can all avoid it – I’ve been very socially isolated and when I’m out walking 🚶 I try hard to maintain distance. The last public place I was in since Saturday was Stewart’s and in the past two weeks the only other two public places outside of the woods or my truck is North Greenbush Shop Rite 🏪 and Stewart’s Gas. ⛽

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 41 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 25th. South wind 5 to 9 mph. I closed the windows ⬜ but the heat remains off. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 22 degrees. The record low of 11 occurred back in 1975.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 6% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the west (268°) at an altitude of 16° from the horizon, some 250,323 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 October 2^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺Going to take a while to get there if you obey the dictims of the Albany. At least once your there, you’ll have a hell of a social distancing going on. But then again, your probably not going to get Coronavirus through your space suit. 👽The moon will set in the west-northwest (283°) at 9:32 pm. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 6:20 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:48 am in the east (86°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:25 am with sun in the east (92°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 29 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 4pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 12th. Northwest wind around 8 mph. Should be another real nice day. A year ago, we had sunny skies. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1998. 6.7 inches of snow fell back in 1959.❄

In four weeks on April 23 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (288°) at 7:46 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 54 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, warm, rain showers and temperatures between 75 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 62 and 40 degrees. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 2007.

🇺🇸🦅Only 8 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

I am looking forward to that holiday weekend, and hopefully by then the worse of Coronavirus will be done 👾and things will have a chance to return to the normal swatting at black flies. Yes, I really should plan on speeding more time in researching a screened in picnic table tent to make black fly season camping ⛺ a lot more fun.