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.

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. 🐪 Three weeks to National Nude Day 👱. Skinny dipping after dark on a hot day is fun. Sunny and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. Chilly start to the morning but pleasant. I bet is chilly up north in the Adirondacks this morning.

After a cool and gray Tuesday, 🌥 the sun is back out but another rather cool day. It looks like they are saving the heat for the weekend. They are cleaning up the tree that fell on Monday on the bike path. 🚲🎄 That thunderstorm wasn’t bad but it knocked down that one tree. Odd.

I ran to Wally World for groceries 🛒 and should be good until some time next week when I’ll probably want additional supplies so I have things for lunch and my Independence Day Weekend trip. I forgot to get butter, I might get it when I run out for the therapist on Friday.

I noticed that the battery relay wasn’t connecting automatically when I was driving yesterday to the store 🔋. I thought my patch to the exciter wire was bad but I forgot I had pulled off one of the terminals of a control switch to test things. I replugged in the connector, and things were perfect. I should be good if I head out of town next week for remote work then camping, wherever I decide to go. I was really annoyed when I had problems last weekend, because I thought I had fully mastered the technology and it worked flawless until it stopped working so well.

I was having a pretty good morning, ☺ until I read the news 📰 about the socialists taking Buffalo but hopefully it’s an oddity and the trend won’t continue. But I’m also ready for a change, even if it’s forced and not exactly how on paper I want it to go down. But I can’t control my day, I can control my attitude. 🤬

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 72 degrees at 4pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 19th. Maximum dew point of 48 at 8am. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 93 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1888.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon (-0° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. 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 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (138°) at an altitude of 10° from the horizon, 227,407 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 67 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 8 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 23rd. Calm wind. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1932. Nice sleeping weather.

The weekend looks to be hot and sticky. 😰 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 85. Maximum dew point of 67 at 8pm. 🌞 Sunday, a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. ⛈ Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 70 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

The plan remains the same. 🚶🏻 Walk out to Five Rivers early Saturday morning, take the bus to Thacher Park and then walk up to Thompson Lake for a swim 🏊🏻‍♂️ and then back to Thacher Park to read and enjoy the balance of day. Wear a lot of sunscreen and stay out of the high grass because the ticks are bad up at Thacher Park. A nice quiet, fossil free Saturday. ☺ Next independence weekend Spectulator to upper Piseco-Powley Road I’m thinking. Or Schoharie back country.

One of my long time colleagues was pointing out the benefits to getting a GIS certification. 🗺 Maybe that’s something I should look at in the future. I mean I don’t know if I will be working for state forever, although one of my concerns is that technology seems to be changing so quickly as computer power grows. I’ve thought about that and also maybe getting a CDL, although I have to say map making probably pays a lot better, and there is so much information you can get from map data.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until National Nude Day 👱 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:05 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly sunny, thunderstorm and temperatures between 84 and 67 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1995.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday, Primary Day. At least in the big cities, there are no primaries locally in Bethlehem at least. All of the polling places are closed, confirming what I already knew. Four weeks to Ugly Truck Day 🚚. Rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees. The skies will clear around 8 pm.

I was thinking it was one year ago today, 🏕 👨‍💻 that I was camping and doing remote work from Horsehoe Lake and Lows Lake in the Adirondacks. What a blast for sure, it was pretty wild. I don’t know why I haven’t done that again, although part of issue is that there is really only one campsite and also down by the lake that has really good internet up there, and it’s a long ways north — plus I kind of got busy doing other things with more in-person sessions in Albany. 🎑 Those photos I took from Lows Ledge though a pretty amazing. Maybe I should do a real vacation up in Horseshoe again this year, and maybe even tent camp on Lows Lake. 😎 A bit of a trip but it’s nice.

I didn’t get a real early start this morning with the clouds, 🌦 which meant by the time I was out walking, the rain was coming down. Really picked up about the time I got home, but that’s fine I got milk 🐮 to and are taking a shower shortly. 🚿 The good news is today is a lot less humid then yesterday – it was really a dog day yesterday. 🐶

I worked from home yesterday, 😅 mainly because I didn’t want to face masking up in the heat and going into the air conditioned office. I put the big box fan right on me ☢ and worked at my computer for a while before laying back in bed with the fan and following email and hopping up to make calls. ☎️ It really wasn’t a pleasant day, and I skipped my evening walk because it was so humid and nasty out. Just moving a lot made you sweat like a pig. 🐷 I kind of wish I found a way to work from the Adirondacks yesterday, although it was pretty wet up there in Speculator yesterday, so I would have been huddled in my truck, trying to stay out of the rain.

Today will have showers likely, mainly before 1pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 3rd. Maximum dew point of 58 at 8am. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 95 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1954.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon (-0° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇

At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the south-southeast (148°) at an altitude of 19° from the horizon, 226,522 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 6 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear ☁, with a low of 48 degrees at 4am. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 16th. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light after midnight. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It was humid. It got down to 75 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1940.

I was glad I was able to quickly fix the bum connection 🔋 on the exciter wire to main battery relay. It turned out it was the just the butt connector that I noticed was loose was bad, as soon as I cut it and found voltage, ✂️ I was able to patch the cable together with a new butt connector as I left extra wire slack, and things were working again. ⚡

Hot, humid with showers this weekend. 🌩 Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 67 at 11am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 70 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

I am thinking Saturday, catch the Nature Bus 🚌 to Thacher Park, hike up to Thompson Lake, go for a brief swim, 🏊‍♀️ do some nature observation, 🐦 and then head back to Thacher Park and do some reading. Also, going to bring may back up battery for my phone 🔋, so I don’t have to worry about charge, especially if I end up sitting by the escarpment doing some blogging or even watching a Youtube. 📱 I figure it will be cool by escarpment. The following weekend — Independence Day Weekend — it will either be to the Adirondacks or maybe Schoharie backcountry to camp. But it might rain. Who knows. I do want to do a long weekend at the Potholers once it gets hot out again. 😎

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Ugly Truck Day 🚚 when the sun will be setting at 8:27 pm with dusk at 9:00 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 87 and 69 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1991.