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How Careless I’m With Water.
I was thinking the other day how careless I can be with water …
I rent and my landlord pays for the water, 💦 obstinately through my rent payment. The landlord sometimes complains how high the water bill is 💸 and suggests his tenants do more to save water. But water is cheap and plentiful, and I honestly I don’t think that much about it when I wash dishes or take a shower. But I probably should.
Water is not free to produce and it certainly is not free dispose of. Waste-water treatment is particularly energy intensive, and like many towns, there is a mixture of energy-intensive sewage pumps and gravity that take waste-water down to the treatment plant and heat and mechanically disturb it purify of many of the worse contaminates before dumping it into the Hudson River.
I am certainly a lot more careful about my water use when camping, as I am usually limited to the six gallons I have in the two three-gallon containers I have. I can usually re-fill them every few days, but that water has to used for all cooking and cleaning purposes. I often use paper plates and bowls, and try to avoid as many dishes as possible, but some cleaning is always necessary. But conservation is the name of the game in the wilderness — even when I’m washing dishes, I’m trying to minimize water use as much as possible by scrubbing them out with paper towels, rising and soaping them with as little water as possible.
When I own my own land, and an off-grid place, water conservation will be the name of the game, especially if I don’t have an always-on water pump. ☸ There is nothing wrong with using a water tank up on the second floor and using gravity for flow. That’s the most energy efficient way to go, although you gain muscle yourself by hauling water upstairs. But if you filling the water by hand, you much more likely to conserve it. And conservation is the name of game. If I had a septic system, I would make sure to keep food waste separated out in the sink for compost, and used toilet paper in a wastebasket for incineration in a burn barrel. As who wants to pay to have their tank pumped, with all the solids ultimately going to a landfill?
Conservation is important, but it’s not really part of the modern suburban experience. I’m sure the landlord wishes I did more, and I probably should try harder, but all the incentives are wrong when you have easily pumped and pressurized water as your disposal.
Today’s Almanac for Wednesday October 28
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 6 hours and 56 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:56 am and runs for 29 minutes,
Sunrise is at 7:25 am which is 4 hours and 34 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:39 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 5:53 pm is 5 hours and 53 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 30 minutes concluding at 6:22 pm,
Leaving 5 hours and 37 minutes until midnight.
New overlook, nature area open along Owasco Lake | WSYR
The Finger Lakes Land Trust reported Wednesday the Owasco Bluffs Nature Preserve is now open the the public. Located in the Town of Niles the 74-acre site includes forested bluffs overlooking Owasco Lake as well as wetlands, meadows, and a rugged gorge.
There is a one-mile trail from Sam Adams Lane through the forest that leads to a scenic overlook offering a spectacular view of the lake.
Back of Campsite, and Driveway Heading to Road
October 28, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy Average High is 55 🍂! Much colder than that the next few days. We are looking at a few inches of snow 🌨, the wet sloppy kind the next few days. Next Wednesday is the Day After Election Day 🚿If you haven’t voted by then you’ll have to the start of the Early Vote period in mid June 2021. I wonder if we will be wearing masks when we vote then. 😷 At least the lines shouldn’t be so long for the local Early Vote. ❎ Rain and 41 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Friday around 6 am. ☃️ We might get some snow come Friday morning, but I think it will be more of a nuisance snow, more glob then anything else.
I decided to catch the bus 🚍 downtown and work in the office 🏢 today. It didn’t seem like a really good day to be working down at the library parking lot 📚 and my apartment is cold and damp as I’ve not turned on the heat. Plus I expect with the clouds and dark skies, the under voltage relay would tripping ⚡ on the load of the laptop. Plus I’m thinking 💭 it best to get in the habit of going to work because I expect soon I’ll be working downtown full time again.
Today will have showers likely, mainly before 9am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 52 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 5th. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1971. 2.0 inches of snow fell back in 1952.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.1° from the due south horizon (-36.8° vs. 6/21). No sun today. A six foot person will cast a 8.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:15 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (246°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 6:22 pm, which is one minute and 23 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see a nearly Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (106°) at an altitude of 14° from the horizon, 250,852 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:57 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 52 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 6 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over today.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 18th. Southwest wind around 5 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1969.
In 1956, Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. 💉This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months. The polio virus was scary but science helped combat it. 🤓 There is still some hope for mankind. Hopefully the national nightmare will be over in six months as the orange man packs 📦 up his bags.
Sunny and cold this weekend. 🌞 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 45. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees. I am still chewing over my weekend plans – but a lot depends on how much snow they get in Brookfield this week and how early the storm pulls out. It does look nice, but who knows, and I’ll probably be quite busy with work.
As previously noted, next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:44 pm with dusk at 5:13 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 51 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.
