Good morning! Happy Sunday! ⛪ First Sunday in May. Feels kind of cold but definitely very blue with a few clouds pushing in. Next Sunday is Mothers Day 👩‍ . I think I’ve been called a mother a few times before, and your mother won’t be happy if you don’t remind her next week. Partly sunny and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃.

Yesterday, I discovered the wonderful world of TikTok. 👪 A lot of silly redneck videos, with well, rednecks doing redneck things like driving around jacked up trucks, milking cows, spreading manure, burning trash, shooting guns and hunting/fishing. All with thick accents and lots of black smoke. Fun stuff. 🔫 🔥 🤠 🐮 🐄 I just like seeing the other world where people aren’t leaving the life dictated by the greenies, where they have land and live their own life without so much regulation and feeling like they have to be virtuous every hour of their life.

I also went for a couple hour walk out to and around Five Rivers. 🚶‍♀️ 🐸 It was nice with a lot of new birds compared to even a few weeks ago. While there certainly were song sparrows and starling around, there also was another bird I couldn’t easily identify and Merlin isn’t coming up with answers. I am going to study the photos I took and take another stab with the Merlin Bird Identification app. 🐦

Then I got looking at various properties in Pennsylvania on the Land and Farm website. 🏡 Not because I’m in any rush to buy land or a cabin, but I wanted to get a better understanding of what is available at what price. It’s good to keep my focus on the goal, even if Pennsylvania isn’t necessarily how far south or west I will end up. That said, Penns has so many advantages over New York when it comes to gun laws and lack of restrictions on open burning and fires, and the backwoods culture is wonderful. 🔥 But there are many other states out there, and even far more open space when you get into the Appalachians, Midwest or even the true west. Folks have so much fun on the Tik-Tok. 😍 I love that website, it really is inspirational and wonderful and funny as shit.

Today will have a chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Sunny through mid morning, then becoming cloudy 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 6th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 4pm. South wind around 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 2018. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

I am going to hike this morning at Papscanee Island Nature Preserve this morning and look at the birds 🐦 and then maybe later go to Walmart to pick up some supplies. 👜 I was going to go shopping on Thursday, too busy, Friday, too busy, Saturday I discovered TikTok and wasted my evening looking at properties on the Land and Farm website. LOL! 📱 But it’s a nice morning, so I’m going to do that first and then shower 🚿 before going out to the folks house. 🥞 Had a nice stack of apple pancakes from some mix I bought for camping but ended up eating at home. A lot of sugar, but sometimes you just gotta be bad.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 62.9° from the due south horizon (-8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:18 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (286°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (292°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:57 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 8 seconds with dusk around 8:27 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:06 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 61 degrees. The dew point will be 52 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 14 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 28 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 7pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 51 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 27th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6pm. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1966.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Mothers Day 👩‍ when the sun will be setting at 8:04 pm with dusk at 8:36 pm. On that day in 2020, we had cold day that was partly sunny and temperatures between 45 and 33 degrees. I was camping up on the East Branch, being super naughty when Coronavirus Unkles were telling everybody to be prisoners to their own homes. Stay home, jack-off, stay safe! I think it snowed that night. Just a dusting through. ❄️ But no black flies. The previous year wasn’t much better when I was up at Stewart Landing, though there was black flies. 🐜 Typically, the high temperature is 67 degrees. We hit a record high of 93 back in 1979.