Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind.Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

It’s been a good weekend except for ending it by dropping my glasses 👓 in the toilet 🚽 but they washed off fine and I had just flushed the toilet. Stupid me stumbling around after taking out my contacts. 👀

Had a nice Sunday dinner at the folks house, 🍲 of beef stew, rolls and noodles. Mom still makes the best meals 🍴. I had a safe trip home unpacked my stuff and worked on finding some photos 📷 for Save the Pine Bush to use.

Hiking in the Pine Bush was great 🚶, it’s remarkably beautiful this time of year and well worth my walk on this rather gray afternoon as the day became. It was some excerise with lots of birds 🐦 and wildlife to enjoy out walking. Saw lots of people too including horseback 🏇 riders and families 👪 out hiking.

Tonight will be cloudy ☁, with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 24th. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 10 occurred back in 1972.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 57% illuminated. The moon will set at 12:20 am. The Last Quarter Moon will be tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies. The Cold Moon 🌝 is on Wednesday, December 11th. The sun will rise at 6:49 am with the first light at 6:18 am, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 18 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 6 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of freezing rain and sleet before 10am, then a chance of rain and sleet between 10am and noon, then a chance of rain after noon. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 37 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 11th. North wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Little or no sleet accumulation expected. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1928. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1980.❄

Figured out how to write my own indefinite scroll 📜 code and get it to play nice with the masonry library that provides the pinterest like look for the blog. None of the code is really complicated but it took a while to figure out how to call the methods. My hope is when I switch to my new theme I’m writing – which reassemble the current appearance the blog will load faster and I’ll have more ability to customize it further without all the bloat of the current theme I use as a parent theme – but end up overriding half the code. It will be a better faster loading blog when it’s done and I think I now know how to call Masonry library after embedding Facebook to avoid visual glitches when loading. 💻 And I have some new ideas I’m thinking about implementing as part of the upgrade.

In four weeks on December 15 the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm,🌄 which is 8 minutes and 47 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had cold weather but was, partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 22 and 7 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 21 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 2015.

Looking ahead, December 🎄 is in 2 weeks, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 4 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 5 weeks, National Pie Day 🍰 is in 9 weeks and 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 10 weeks.