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July 4, 2021 Morning

Good morning! Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸! Not the greatest morning ever to celebrate America’s birthday, kind of cloudy and damp. Now is a good time to count all ten fingers, to confirm all are there before you loose a few tonight. 🤲 Next Sunday is World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧. I don’t think that’s a pretty politically correct topic these days. Probably going to celebrate that occasion up north in the Adirondacks, as I am heading north on Friday I think after my eye appointment. Clouds, drizzle and 59 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌧 Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. The skies will clear around noontime. It would not have been a real nice holiday weekend up north.

Yesterday despite the drizzle, was super nice up at Thacher Park. 🌧 I think I liked it particularly because there wasn’t any crowds. If there wasn’t the free bus, I wouldn’t have gone, but I figured it was something to do and was free. 🚶‍♀️ I am always looking for low-cost and free things to do that don’t involve burning any gas, ⛽ because money is always so tight especially in the summer months. Plus I have to make that quarterly tax payment in two weeks. At least my cellphone bill is paid for next month, although I’m not happy about the reduced service plan I ended up deciding to get, to cut down my use.

Independence Day will have isolated showers. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 73 degrees at 5pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 23rd. Maximum dew point of 59 at 2pm. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 89 degrees. The record high of 104 was set in 1911.

No big plans for today, ✍ I might want to do some blogging, working on some data and some minor improvements to the blog and some research regarding the industrial solar facilities that are the newest form of sprawl inflicting our state. 🏙 I also want to watch some of the videos I downloaded the other day and maybe go for a walk out to Five Rivers later if it gets nicer, and maybe do some more cleaning around in the apartment. No plans to drive anywhere today. 📚 I also want to get reading some of the library books I got on Friday at library.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.2° from the due south horizon (-0.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:54 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:37 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 26 seconds with dusk around 9:10 pm, which is 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:56 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 68 degrees. The dew point will be 59 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 12 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌆 , with a low of 57 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 8pm. Calm wind. Kind of a cool night to balance out for earlier in the week. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 62 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1982.

On this day in 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 🇺🇸 Happy Birthday, America! Starting the day after Independence Day 1967, you would be able to FOIL the Federal Government, 🎆 after U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into law on July 4, 1966. Then citizens could request information on how much the federal government spent on fireworks the night before.

While this weekend was a stay in town weekend, 🏕 I am planning on heading to the Adirondacks after eye doctor’s appointment. 👀 It will be at least a three day weekend, although I might either take off Monday or maybe more likely work remote from Speculator on Monday and Tuesday, heading home Tuesday night and to the town meeting to speak out against even more development in the Albany Pine Bush. 🌲 It would have been fun to head out of town this weekend, but it’s been so cold and rainy, and it would have been even cold weather.

As previously noted, next Sunday is World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 when the sun will be setting at 8:33 pm with dusk at 9:07 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot and humid weather which was partly sunny with a few rain showers and temperatures between 90 and 74 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 98 back in 1936. I think that was right after I got back from the week I spent working remote from a very remote part of the Green Mountains.

June 24, 2021 Morning

Good morning! Happy Strawberry Moon! 🍓 🌕 It pretty brilliant last night. I had strawberries on my pancakes this morning to celebrate. 🥞 I wonder if I can find wild strawberries in the fields. They are so good too. Next Thursday is July 🏊🏿. Mine Kill pool opens then. Sunny and 55 degrees out walking past the Bethlehem Central High School. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 49 degrees. A bit warmer then yesterday, although not much.

Out for my morning walk 🚶🏻 and it’s a nice one with the sun ☀ warming things up quickly. Running a few minutes late as I was a bit tardy getting out of bed 🛏 looking at blog stuff and Tiktok, rather than getting out of bed and walking 🚶🏻. But the coffee is brewing now ☕ and I am throwing together a quick lunch. 🚿 I will shower shortly after my pancakes 🥞 are done. Seeing how tight I can run my morning and still make the bus in time for work. 🚌 Still limited service in the morning and rush hour, no express buses.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 10am. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Should be a nice summer day. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1943.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon (-0° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (127°) at an altitude of 1° from the horizon, 228,908 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 51 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 12 seconds over yesterday.

My neighbors have this gas fire pit 🔥 that they have on the deck which somehow worries me but I guess being gas it’s relatively safe as there isn’t firebrands or sparks coming off it. ✨ But while I’m a fire bug 🐛 I am so careful with fire and would never have anything like that near my house.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 51 degrees at 3am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 26th. Maximum dew point of 51 at 8pm. South wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 57 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1982.

The weekend looks like a summer weekend. 🏖 Saturday, a slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. South wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 67 at 11am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 88. Maximum dew point of 69 at 8am. It will be muggy for sure but fairly seasonable. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

Looking forward to the weekend and catching the Nature Bus 🐦 up to Thacher Park. While I could certainly drive there, it’s just kind of more of an adventure to take bus 🚍 plus then you can enjoy the scenery and not have to worry about parking 🅿 and speed traps. Pack a lunch 🥪, water 💦, bathing suit if I walk to Thompsons Lake, 🏊🏻‍♂️ book to read 📖 and an extra battery 🔋 for the phone. Maybe binoculars and the camera too. 📸

As previously noted, next Thursday is July 🏊🏿 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 83 and 64 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 83 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1913.

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From the campfire at Mountain Pond...

Taken on Friday July 1, 2011 at Mountain Pond.

There was fireworks but did anything really change with the muzzles ? 🎆

Earlier in the week there was a big fireworks show to celebrate the end of the pandemic. A lot of people got vaccinated as did myself, but it seems like you still have a wear your muzzle most of the places where you had to wear it — walking around in the office and on the bus. I guess a few months back when I got vaccinated, I stopped wearing a bandana around my neck when I did my evening walk but it sure seems like everybody still wears their mask at the supermarket. Maybe it’s different in other parts of the state, and maybe muzzle-wearing rules are unnecessary, but I am not certainly celebrating the end of pandemic restrictions in my own life.