Good evening! Clear and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. 🌕 Still close to the full moon and lots of moonlight out there tonight. Nice evening for a walk under the moonlight but I decided to come inside and take out my contacts 👀 as my eyes were itching and retire to bed 🛏.

While today was kind of a stay home day, 🏡 I did walk out to Five Rivers this afternoon for a while and it was nice after the crowds thinned out. 🐸 Lots of Blue Jays 🐦 around and some does 🦌 and a bit of color – you saw the pictures 🖼 I posted earlier but if not, scroll 📜 down.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 5am. Patchy frost after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 37 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 23rd. Light and variable wind. Yeah, I should close the windows but I’ll burrow under the covers and it’s not like it’s cold enough to freeze the pipes. ❄ I like the fresh air. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1948.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 95% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east (100°) at an altitude of 25° from the horizon, some 252,136 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 13^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The New Moon is on Monday, October 19. The darkest hour is at 12:45 am, followed by dawn at 6:28 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:56 am in the east (95°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:33 am with sun in the east-southeast (101°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 23 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 8am. Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 7th. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1891. 6.5 inches of snow fell back in 1987.❄

Tomorrow I want to get up fairly early and go for a hike at Partridge Run. 🚶🏻 I think I have a nice autumn hike planned and I’ll bring my camera 📸 for more nice autumn pictures. 🍂 Then it’s out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. 🍲I didn’t get to see them last week as I was tardy getting back from the Adirondacks as I ended up hiking farther than I had originally planned in the West Canada Lakes Wilderness. 🍁 Next weekend I’m thinking 💭 about hiking one day at Beebe Hill and Harvey Mountain.

Ran out of space for more podcasts on my phone 🎧 so I couldn’t download any more so I deleted the old ones I had on my phone and resync so I have more to listen to 👂🏻 over the next few days. I’ll get even more when I go to the library on Monday for my Zoom Meeting. ⬇️ I also need to upgrade my laptop to the latest version of stable Ubuntu as 18.04 is finally reaching its end of life. 🐞 I only run the stable version of Ubuntu and I usually wait for a few minor bug patches to come out before upgrading the distribution.

I was annoyed that they left a phone book 📙 on my door step now that they’ve ended free paper recycling ♻. I’ll shred the book and I might end up burning it 🔥 but it’s still obnoxious. I think I might just have to plan more frequent trips to the transfer station. 🛢 I can’t wait until I eventually move out to the country.

In four weeks on October 31 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (251°) at 5:49 pm,🌄 which is 43 minutes and 40 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 75 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 54 and 35 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 2019.

Looking ahead, Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 is in 2 weeks, Halloween 🦇 and the Blue Moon 🌕 is in 4 weeks, Election Day 2019 🗳️ is a month away, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 8 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 9 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 12 weeks, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 3 months, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 14 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 16 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 18 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 20 weeks, and Snow Moon 🌕 is in 21 weeks.