Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Three weeks to Buy Nothing Day 🛍️. Or as I like to call it, camping, hiking, and hunting day as my office is usually closed that day. Seems like it’s coming upon us early this year, but I guess Thanksgiving is early and Election day is late. Dark and rainy morning but very mild around 49 degrees in North Syracuse. ☔ Mild enough that the cruise control worked right away after I started up the truck, often in the cold it takes a while for it to work. Calm wind. Finally, the sun is rising now, it’s so dark driving into the office at 7 AM. At least the time changes on Sunday with MORE SUN!! 😎 The skies will clear Sunday around 7 am. Okay, the days don’t actually get longer but we might actually see the sun for a change. That’s a goo dthing.

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly before 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 61 degrees at 12pm. Eight degrees above normal. If we are lucky, we might even see some so breaks of sun, especially later on in the afternoon. Maximum dew point of 54 at 11am. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1950. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1911.❄

The sun will set at 5:54 pm with dusk around 6:24 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and 54 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 6 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. Six degrees above normal. West wind 3 to 6 mph. Just so cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1980.

There are 4 days, 14 hours and 20 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 It’s been one of the worse autumns on record for sunny skies, and apparently for seeing autumn colors. But I don’t care that much, I’ve been rather busy, making the money. 👷 One day last week when we actually had a some sun, the colors were decent in the North Syracuse, but other then it’s been an autumn that isn’t that great.🍂 I am sure by the time I’m on my road trip, there won’t be any leaves on trees in most places that I will be.

I was in the office before seven AM — although I have to admit that has more to do with moving my truck from the driveway of the place where I am staying so I’m so the people I am staying with can get to work. 🚗 Plus I want to get in the habit of getting up earlier, especially with the time change and my road trip coming up, so it’s easy to get in position back in the woods before the sun rises. I am planning to go also go for an early morning on Sunday morning, as it will be the last one before I leave Syracuse one last night.

So certainly within a week from now I will be starting my November trip, although increasingly I am thinking about leaving on Thursday. We will see, it depends on how quickly I can get packed and unpacked. I also want to get a haircut before my trip, 💈especially because I don’t want my hair to get too matted and icky with a week in the back-country without showering.🚿 A lot depends on the weather, but I do want to get out on my trip as soon as possible, because I want to spend two nights camping in Nelson,🏕 then a full, nice day to see Montezuma and Chimney Bluffs State Park before heading down to the Finger Lakes National Forest before dusk. 🔥 The first two days can be cloudy, but I want nice weather for the Chimney Bluffs part of the trip.

I got paid yesterday, and I have some extra money again, so I will be saving that and buying another Big CD at the end of the month when one the one I currently have expires. 🤑 I would invest more of it but I think the markets really are overpriced, and with the higher interest rates, CDs aren’t that awful of a deal. Every dollar saved, is one I can put forward towards my future and eventually owning my own land. I am always looking for ways to save money, put a little more away. Maybe it’s a decade more away, but it’s decade of learning, thinking, planning, a saving.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm with dusk at 5:05 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 37 and 27 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 72 back in 1931.