Good afternoon! Happy National Nude Day. Partly sunny and 79 degrees at the Mine Kill State Park. Not nude here but wearing my bathing suit as I swim. There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees. This is a nice day with lots of sun but the breeze is a bit chilly when you get out of the pool. But I guess that is to be expected, it’s often cool here in the foot hills of the Catskills.

It’s been a nice weekend in this vacationatte of sorts, and overnight trip to Schoharie County, ⛺ although I ended up drinking, well getting over served, 🍻 beer and shots with the other camper down at the big campsite on the Betty Brook. But it was a fun night hanging out with some cool people from Jefferson who are converting an old school bus 🚍 to a camper using junked RV components. Small town life must be fun.

After hanging out with them until quarter to midnight I built a small fire to burn some camp garbage and just to have a fire 🔥 I could have brought it home but fire is more fun, watching as the paper blackened and the wrappers melted. Cracked open yet another beer 🍺 and then laid back in my hammock until 1:30 am listening to a podcast, probably dozing off until a rain shower came through. 💦 The fake lightening bugs were neat although not as pretty as up at Moose River Plains.

This morning was a slow one, as I was a little bit hung over, 😩 after the previous evening. Plus I left my propane tank home, so I had to build a fire, get good coals to make coffee ☕ and eggs for breakfast, but a campfire breakfast 🍳 sure is good when your hung over. I got to do more campfire breakfast on vacation, maybe with charcoal as that’s easier to light then building a fire every time. I also spent some time swinging back and forth on the most nice of mornings in the hammock. Departed camp at noon 🕛.

Today I hiked up Vromans Nose 👃 and stopped for a few pictures. Also visited Looking Glass Pond 🎣 but did no fishing as I was running late. Got blueberries and cherries 🍒 at Boreingers, got sweet corn 🌽 at Max Shauls, and ice cream 🍦 at the restaurant at Fultonham. And now I’m swimming 🏊 at Mine Kill State Park.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 53 degrees at 4am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 5th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 7pm. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light in the evening. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies. It was sticky. It got down to 72 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1950.

The sun will set at 8:33 pm with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 36 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 56 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 25 seconds over yesterday.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 21st. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It became sticky as the day progressed. The high last year was 93 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1997.

On this day in 1969, the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation. After this date, if you wanted to buy a large purchase in cash, you needed a lot of hundred dollars in bills. 💵 Or just use a credit card or a bank check. 💳 They had last been printed in 1945, and were finally dropped from circulation in 1969, in part as an effort to reduce corruption and money scams.💰👿

One month 📅 from now the Altamont Fair Opens 🎡 when the sun will be setting at 8:00 pm with dusk at 8:30 pm. They say that all good things must end some day, autumn leaves must fall. 🍁🍂 But first fair season.