Good morning. Happy Tuesday. Second gear of the work week. 57 degrees and cloudy this morning. Mostly cloudy with a chance of shower later this afternoon and a high around 67. Sunset at 8:13 pm with dusk around 8:46 pm. Not a great day, but at least it’s no longer feeling like a winter day. That biting wind is gone. Clears out around midnight and nice spring-like weather returns for Wednesday through at least Monday. Waxing Gibbous Moon, approaching 80% visible with the full moon coming on Saturday night.

Today is School Board Election Day. None of the seats were competitive this year but it gave me an opportunity to register my thoughts about the state of education in our country nowadays. If you don’t fund something, you get less of it. Or more efficiency and less bloat. Or maybe make no difference at all. Well, it is right next door. I did make sure to support my local library. I like their fast and free WiFi at both the library and town park.

Today is Pack Rat Day. Good day for a bonfire. Just don’t tell Pete Grannis and the winny liberals in Albany. I forgot, Governor Patterson fired Grannis but not until the damage he did to our state. I heard they continued Grannis’ brush burning ban for two more weeks so if you’re within sight line of a public road, keep your bonfires looking more like campfires. You’ll be fine. Or move to Pennsylvania. Where not only allow open burning but they don’t treat gun owners like sex offenders.

On a much less political topic, the weekend weather continues to look quite nice. 73 or 74 degrees and partly sunny both days. I’m still thinking about the Adirondacks this weekend and hitting up the Save the Pine Bush Hike on the way home. Not sure if I will go paddling, hiking, or shooting, maybe a little bit of all. Depends where I’m going.

Today in 1973, televised hearings begin in the United States Senate on the Watergate scandal. Also in 1954, the United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

On that note, Have a great Tuesday!