Good evening! Rain and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. It was pouring earlier but has let up. The skies will clear Friday around noontime.

Schodack Island State Park ⛲ was packed which shouldn’t have surprised me with everything else closed but it did because it was raining out by the end of my hike and cold and cloudy ☁all day. You don’t expect to see many people out in the woods on such dreary days except maybe the opening day of hunting season. I really enjoy sitting quietly in the woods and there was a ton of mostly common birds 🐦 when I was observing 🔭.

I am impressed by the amount of food that I got from Aldi’s and the whole shopping 🏪 experience. Really spent what I normally would at Walmart for a lot more meals 🍴 and options. Those chicken tenders were really good – far better than microwave chicken paddies plus I have two more meals in the freezer. And I ton of yummy 😋 fruit and veggies. 🌽

I got the clippings from John Wolcott house 🏡. It was nice to see them but it felt so odd stepping back when I was handed the box 🎁 and talking real briefly while social distancing. I put hand sanitizer on both before and leaving and left them in my truck overnight 📰 before looking at them in the morning. I think with the cold overnight and the fact that I doubt they’ve been exposed to the virus the clippings should be safe to review later on tomorrow.

Tonight will rain likely, mainly after 3am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 12am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 28th. Southeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1923.

Its definitely a very quiet night with the rain on the roof 💦and no traffic on the roads as everything is all but shutdown. I thought about riding the exercise bike 🚲 but decided against it as my neighbors are home. I watched an Off Grid video and a Big Clive Electronics video this evening that I downloaded earlier in the week. 🎦

I also finished my eight book of the year, The Big Tiny about this woman who built a 🏡 on a construction trailer like you might see for demolishing a building, towed by a pickup truck and lived in it. The Tiny House movement is fascinating, although I think I’d want home slightly larger although maybe smaller my current one bedroom apartment. There are a lot of options out there, and while I wouldn’t necessarily want to build something, I am very interested in some of the off grid hunting camps I’ve looked at that are pretty rustic but certainly not in New York and probably not in the Salt Belt.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 19% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the west (270°) at an altitude of 27° from the horizon, some 246,074 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 October 1^st. Buckle up for safety! 💺Ain’t going to see it with the rain. The moon will set in the west-northwest (295°) at 11:37 pm. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 1:01 am, followed by dawn at 6:16 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:45 am in the east (85°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:22 am with sun in the east (91°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 24 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain. 🌧 High of 48 degrees at 1pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 25th. Southeast wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1946. 5.6 inches of snow fell back in 1984.❄

The next few days are going to be quite rainy. 💦 I’ll probably run to the laundromat tomorrow morning early and call 📞 the folks to see how they are doing. I probably should skip Sunday dinner to be safe – at least that’s what the experts say. I’ll talk to them and get their thoughts but maybe it’s best to stay away for a few more weeks. I’m hoping by Easter 🐰 things will calm down with the virus and things will be better again. It’s just scary times we live in.

I got the laptop from work today and will be able to use that instead of my personal computer 💻 for work stuff, although I was told it doesn’t have Microsoft Office on it yet but they will install it soon. So I won’t have to use the library Wi-Fi on rainy days from my truck which is nice. First half of the week looks bad so I might be stuck at home which kind of sucks but maybe it will further help starve the virus for now. I’m just getting so tired 😴 of day after day of Coronavirus, filled with scary stats and numbers 🔢.

Latest long range forecast for next weekend looks increasingly rainy ☔ but it’s a long ways off and I’ll take it one day at a time. Things aren’t so muddy and I’m thinking this rain may do a number on the snow in the Adirondacks which opens up further options such as NY 8.

In four weeks on April 25 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (289°) at 7:49 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 54 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 66 and 38 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 63 and 41 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 2009.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 3 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 7 weeks, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 8 weeks, Last Day of Session 🏛 is in 12 weeks and Summer ️⛱️ is in 12 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 54 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Definitely a dark morning with the time change and the clouds. Next Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day 🍀. Better watch out for the drunk drivers then, much more dangerous then the time change. It’s quite cloudy and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 3 am. ☃️

I woke up this morning a bit congested 👃 but after a few cups of coffee ☕I feel pretty good. I know all they ever tell you on the radio 📻 these days is if you feel the least bit sick to stay home. 😷 But if I did that I’d never make it to work as sinus congestion is pretty much the norm for me in the winter. I tell you can smell on the buses how much more aggressively they are cleaning them. I guess that forty million the governor wanted is getting put to good use.

One thing I can say, it’s nice waking up and having the windows open 🐦 and hearing the birds chirp in the morning and the fresh air. And the rumble of the passing cars and trucks. 🚛 I think this will be the last morning in a while for open windows, but I am sure we will have enough warm up in a few weeks. And certainly April weather will be upon us before you know it. That will really help with the sinuses.

Sat out back for a while last night, 🌃 which was nice but it was cloudy out, and it wasn’t that quiet because my neighbors had a big fire going. I probably should have gone over, introduced myself and joined in some fun. Too bad I don’t have any alcohol to think.

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly after noon. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 62 degrees at 3pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 23rd. Another real mild day! Spring is coming. Maximum dew point of 47 at 6pm. South wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 1977. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 43.5° from the due south horizon (-27.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:19 pm with the sun in the west (259°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (266°) starting at 6:54 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:24 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:58 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 58 degrees. The dew point will be 47 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 41 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 3rd. Southwest wind 9 to 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1939.

People ask if I was smart to put $1,000 in that IRA last week to avoid taxes but I look at it as I still have 15 plus years to retirement and closer to 20 before I can touch the IRA. 💵 Any blip in the market is only on paper and I had to contribute a full $1k to open the account. Next week I’ll return to contributing to the IRA as I did previously with the Roth IRA. There will be ups and downs in the market but when contribute every two weeks it smooths out gyrations of the markets. 📊

Today in 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant. While he may not have been a CIA agent he certainly had the tacit support of the government.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 45. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Typical average high for the weekend is 43 degrees. Saturday I’m doing some door 🚪 knocking for Save the Pine Bush. Still not sure if I’m going to Schoharie this weekend. Probably not though.

🌹🌻🌼Only 9 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Next weekend is the last weekend before calendar spring.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 when the sun will be setting at 7:04 pm with dusk at 7:32 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 36 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.

Good evening! Mostly clear and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 3 am. ☃️

Mild evening 🌃, enjoyed my evening walk. 🚶 I ended up walking quite a few miles today, visiting a number of preserves and it was a nice day. Always try to spend a lot of time looking at the trees, observing birds 🐦 and wildlife, trying to go through life not too blind to the world around me. Spent a lot of time in the woods this weekend for sure. Even if I don’t travel far there is a lot of nature locally.

Driving 🚘 back through Berne got me thinking how much the hill towns are not unlike small rural towns everywhere. 🐮 Looking at Sauk County Wisconsin over the past week on the YouTube, and thinking back to my trips to West Virginia and Pennsylvania got me thinking how many nice small towns outside of New York I could ultimately settle down in and have a lot more freedom 🆓 than in New York State. Maybe the pasture isn’t greener everywhere but I see the plastic bag ban and these massive but low output solar farms as a sign of what’s to come and it’s not good. The same with the wilderness activists and anti frackers locking 🔒 all our land. To say nothing of more and more suburban track housing and apartment complexes going up everywhere. I miss the small town life I grew up in but I can’t see buying property in New York at this point. Once I don’t have family in New York, I’m towing everything I can out of the state for greener pastures.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 6th. Going to be cool at night but it’s only the second week of March. At least my heat is off. ♨ South wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1943.

Tonight will have the Worm Full 🀼/strong>󗐠Moon. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east-southeast (119°) at an altitude of 44° from the horizon, some 227,258 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀It’s a pretty big moon with a lot of moonlight. Didn’t need the brights on much driving home from the parents house. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 28^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 6:51 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:20 am in the east (96°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 42 seconds earlier than today. 🌄 Still dark morning ahead. The golden hour ends at 7:57 am with sun in the east-southeast (102°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 22 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 68 degrees at 4pm. 27 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 10th. Outstanding. South wind 6 to 9 mph. But red flag 🚩 conditions so tomorrow is a day you shouldn’t be burning stuff you shouldn’t be 🔥 but my neighbors was having a nice fire out back. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 2016. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

In four weeks on April 5 the sun will be setting in the west (279°) at 7:26 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 25 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies, rain showers and chilly temperatures between 42 and 25 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 54 and 33 degrees. Yes, you can still have winter in April. The record high of 82 degrees was set back in 1928.

Looking ahead, Ides of March ✝ is in 1 week, Pink Moon 🌕 is a month away, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 4 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 5 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 9 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 10 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 13 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 14 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 74 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸