Good evening! Partly clear and 62 degrees Calm wind.🎑 The dew point is 41 degrees. A fairly nice spring evening but the air is a bit pungent with manure with the farm down the road spreading. 💩Been tough on anyone that does field work this spring. It’s just been so wet, in most of the country. 💦 Rain again om Friday and probably Sunday too. Go figure.

I was quite concerned about delays getting home with the Corporation Challenge Run. 🏃 It was a beautiful day for the run for sure, but often it messed up the buses a lot. But this year, the express bus was only about 10 or 15 minutes late, and I was home by six, so not a big deal.🚌 Traffic on the outbound was lighter then expected, and all and it, it’s a very nice evening.

But tonight is nice. 👍 Sitting out back with the almost full moon. I hooked up the laser firefly light show out back. Kind of pretty watching the flicker on the ground although the real thing is even better. 🐝 Been such a cold spring that I bet the real fireflies will be late this year. I hear deer in the woods, a bird chirping in the distance and lots of motor vehicles. 🏁 I live on the outskirts of the city but still close enough for transit.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 49 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 21st. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1959.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 99% illuminated. The moon will set at 5:05 am. The 🌕 will be tomorrow with a chance of showers. The sun will rise at 5:31 am with the first light at 4:58 am, which is 59 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 18 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers likely, mainly between 10am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 72 degrees at 5pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 23rd. Maximum dew point of 58 at 4pm. South wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Well, it was a nice break in the rain for a change. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 2017.

The Pine Bush display was much more ready to go then I expected this year. 🌲I did send some handouts to be made up at the copy shop. Hopefully I made up enough, it’s kind of expensive to do the copying even on lightweight paper. At least its all ordered and I can pick it up tomorrow. 📑 Then it’s the long day at the Lupine Festival but hopefully I’ll have some help. I just hate to spend money 💵 on something that’s going to be thrown away.

So much for that super nice weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Northwest wind around 8 mph. Maximum dew point of 46 at 7pm. Sunday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 64 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees.

After the Lupine Festival I’ll probably go for a walk and head home. 🚶 If Sunday doesn’t look good I’ll just stay in town, run to the store then out to my parents house. Save gas for next weekend. ⛽ Not that I have super big plans for Memorial Day Weekend, at best it’s back up to the East Branch to spend a few days swatting black flies. 🐜

Definitely looking forward to warmer weather and nights in the wilderness. ⛺ I’ve already gotten two weekends in this year but there are more to come. This might be my second to last year of doing these trips if I decide to go car less in 2021, but I want to wait and see what tomorrow brings. I like traveling but I hate the scams, awful people on the automobile industry. I could save so much money by going car lees for a few years and reduce my carbon footprint 👣 enormously.

In four weeks on June 13 the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm,🌄 which is 22 minutes and 6 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 75 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 77 and 56 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1892.

I still can’t believe what an idiot Trump 🎺 is with his tarrifs. In the mid term the presidents actions are eventually going to be be so bad for the economy. 📉 We should be building bonds with other countries, tearing down trade barriers and walls, bringing the globe together not splitting it apart. 🌐 Ignoring our global problems aren’t going to make them go away.

Looking ahead, Fathers Day 👨 is a month away, Summer ️⛱️ is in 5 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 7 weeks, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 2 months, August 🌻 is in 11 weeks and Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆 is in 20 weeks.