Good morning! Happy Average High is 70 🐮! Now if the sun were ever to come out — as it did for a few hours yesterday, and is trying to today — the we’d have a shit-ton of green grass.  🌾Five weeks to Summer ️⛱️. Looking forward to finally having some nice weather, laying down at the beach, going for a swim, or fishing in the evening. Partly cloudy and 51 degrees ⛅ at the Elm Avenue Park and Ride, waiting for 8:26 and heading downtown. There is a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 46 degrees. It’s actually a pretty nice morning for once.

Decided to make up blueberry pancakes for breakfast 🍒and pasta for lunch. 🍲 Definitely a pleasant spring morning for a change, I enjoyed my walk down to the Park and Ride. Taking one of the now old CDTA hybrid buses 🚍 to work, the hybrid motor is making some odd noises for sure. The turbo is whistling too. I wonder if it’s blowing black smoke 💨 out its tailpipe as we go downtown. Smells like cleaner as they can’t open the windows on these older buses. Nothing gets older faster then the future. Listening to Me and Bobby McGee as I look at the increasingly green landscape around.🎶

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 9th. Maximum dew point of 46 at 8am. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph. Definite improvement. That there, is more to go before summer is here. But I’m okay without the real hot weather for a while, especially before the pools open and the black flies  🐜are out. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1991.

The sun will set at 8:12 pm with dusk around 8:44 pm, which is one minute and 2 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 60 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 14 hours and 40 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and one second over yesterday.

I’d love to get down to the park tonight, but I really have to work on the Pine Bush booth. 🎨 I probably will end up walking down to the library to select and order the photos for updating the booth, 🖼 and then tomorrow pick them up with some crayons.🖍 I am hoping I can do all of the ordering of printed material online. Lynne normally uses Kinkos on Wolf Road but I’d rather do it at Staples if possible to avoid the trip up there. I just got figure out how to order online.🖨

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 48 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 18th. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1959. Farmers are planting some crops 🌾 now as the risk of freezing is rarer, at least when it’s not raining.

One month 📅 from now will be Fathers Day 👨 when the sun will be setting at 8:35 pm with dusk at 9:10 pm. Gas Up day, putt, putt, bang! 🚜 I haven’t totally decided if I will go to it this year, but I might go and then camp up on Cotton Hill, maybe back-country hammock camp or up in the lean-to. It could be a fun weekend.⛺ I haven’t been out to Schoharie County since last September and some time out there might be fun.