Good evening! Partly clear and 43 degrees in Dormansville, NY. Calm wind.

Vacation ends and you move on with your life. 😔 Wasn’t the greatest vacation ever with a lot of cloudy and rainy days and if I had a chance I’d do it differently next time but I you can’t look back. You just have to move forward. 📷 Maybe I had a good time but looking back at the photos I took I see a different impression. But then again I might rethink it later on. Face it, I’m tired 😴 and not happy about going back to work or Albany more generally. But I need money, and while Appalachia and coal country is beautiful, they’re ain’t a lot money there – despite Trump digging coal, whatever that means for that dirty dying industry. 🏭

Drove back wearing my glasses as I misplaced my contacts. 👓 I am not a big fan of wearing glasses but I also didn’t want to waste another pair of cintsc and I figured my hands were pretty dirty despite washing them regularly camping. Really didn’t want to g an eye infection. 👀

The trip back was colorful 🍂with really good foliage especially in the Western Catskills. If I had my way, I would have taken this week off for the road trip but I had family 👪 obligations.

Mount Pisgah County Park was nice with some color but bitterly cold. Missed the turn the first time driving up there, memory fades after two years. ↩The winds were really whipping around making it a little bit cold. 🍃 It was a little nicer at the Marie Antoinette Overlook with fog 🌁 in the valley and some color in the hills but I di not stick around for long because I esnt to head home 🏡 and get unpacked.

Still plenty of burn barrels 🔥 when I es still in Pennsylvania. Saw two households burning garbage on Columbus Day, one outside of Troy and one just south of Vestal NY. More dumpsters and trash services now though as I think people find plastic fires to be kind of noxious.

Tonight will have patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🎑, with a low of 36 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 27th. Calm wind. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 95% illuminated. The moon will set at 8:37 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with a showers is likely then chance of showers. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is in 4 weeks. The sun will rise at 7:07 am with the first light at 6:39 am, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 12 hours and 52 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 10am. 🌁 Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 59 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 17th. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1897. There was a dusting of snow in 1939.❄

Back to work tomorrow. 💼 It’s important that I make money 💵 so I can pay down my bills. For a nine night, ten day road trip, my biggest expense was gasoline ⛽ and wear and tear on the truck, besides food and cans of beer my only real expense was $10 for last night at the rustic campground.

This next weekend is the Pine Bush hike, 🌲so I can’t go up to the Adirondacks for the weekend but maybe hiking somewhere on Sunday? 🚶In two weekends might take a three day weekend to Burnt Rossman or maybe the Catskills. ⛺ Burnt Rossman will probably still have a bit of color then, could do some squirrel hunting.

In four weeks on November 11 the sun will be setting at 4:37 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 38 minutes and 17 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 41 and 26 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 2002.

Looking ahead, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 2 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 4 weeks, Cyber Monday 🛍️ is in 7 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 7 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 8 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 10 weeks and Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 3 months.