Good afternoon! Sunny and 76 degrees at Moss Island in Little Falls. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees.

Started my day bright 🔆 and early 🌅 before dawn and went to the Save the Pine Bush bird hike. 🐦 Saw lots of bird but I really need to invest in some good glass so I can see them better. I took all of these pictures in my big camera 📷 I’ll upload them later. So dark in the morning!

Now I’m hiking around Moss Island and Little Falls and plan to kayak a little ways on the Mohawk River. 🐸 Certainly a beautiful day, there was hardly any parking left at Moss Island when I got here. 🅿 Part of it is the Bridge from Little Falls is closed because they are repairing the canal wall and hydro dam.

This afternoon will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.

The sun will set at 6:59 pm with dusk around 7:27 pm, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 12 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 54 degrees at 4am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 11th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 31 occurred back in 1962.

Might hike the Erie Canal Trail through the Gorge later on, get ice cream 🍦and maybe dinner at Green Acres Drive In and then camping up at Pisceo-Powley Road. ⛺ So far it’s been a great day and the best is yet to come! The biggest threat to my day is the lack of daylight, as it’s almost autumn but it’s a beautiful day! 🍂 Some nice colors are starting to pop up around Charleston Four Corners and the higher elevation parts of Schoharie County. Hoping for more color up north.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Northern Zone Regular Season Opens 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:10 pm with dusk at 6:39 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 60 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 79 back in 1963.

Good evening! Mostly clear and 65 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 Calm wind. The dew point is 53 degrees. A fairly nice evening. I went for my evening walk 🚶 and got my camping gear and kayak loaded on my truck for tomorrow.

I also cleaned the very dirty bathroom sink and watched a bit of the Our Wyoming Life channel that I downloaded. 🎥 Agriculture is really fascinating business. I also have been watching a lot of videos lately about chillers and HVAC systems as they are a fascinating topic and one that’s very important with climate change such a risk to our future.

The bird 🐦 hike is bright and morning tomorrow. Then it’s off to kayaking and hiking. Then camp. ⛺ Not a big thing to pack for but it’s going to be an early start tomorrow. 6 AM before sunrise the alarm ⏰ clock is set.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 51 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 18th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 9pm. Light west wind. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1973.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter Moon with 49% illuminated. The moon will set at 1:52 pm. The Last Quarter Moon will be tonight with partly cloudy skies. The Hunter Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, October 12th. The sun will rise at 6:40 am with the first light at 6:12 am, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 44 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 8am. 🌁 Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 26th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 4pm. Calm wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.

In four weeks on October 18 the sun will be setting at 6:09 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and one second earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had cold, sunny and temperatures between 46 and 31 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 59 and 39 degrees. The record high of 84 degrees was set back in 2016.

Looking ahead, November 🥧 is in 6 weeks, Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ is in 10 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 11 weeks, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 15 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 16 months.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Six weeks to November 🥧. It will be here before you know it. Mostly sunny and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.

Today will have patchy dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 7th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.

The sun will set at 6:57 pm with dusk around 7:25 pm, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 54 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 11th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 11pm. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1973.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 23rd. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.

Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. 🌞Maximum dew point of 61 at 8pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees.

Tonight I’ll load the kayak on my truck 🚤and load my gear for camping ⛺ as I have to get an early start for the Pine Bush Birds the Word Hike tomorrow. 🐦 That hike starts at eight at the Discovery Center. I’m debating between paddling in the Mohawk River tomorrow near Moss Island or Stewart Landing tomorrow then the potholers on Sunday. I forgot to get propane tank filled but I’m hopeful I will have enough for tomorrow, otherwise it will be a campfire breakfast. 🛢️ I think the tank still has a pound or two left in it, but it definitely should be filled before vacation.

So I got these black boots 👢 because that’s what they had in my size and I figured that they wouldn’t show the mud and muck so much. But now that I think about it some more, I’m sure the salt will show up. The other advantage is they will polish well with the same black shoe paint I use with my dress shoes. Not sure if I really care for the style but I’m sure with the salt and all the hiking I do they’ll probably only last until spring. Might look really nice with khakis for work. I don’t really care that much about style, it’s different. Change is tough.

I repotted one of the spider plants 🌾in my office that has long struggled. Maybe root rot or maybe I over fertilized it. Four out of the five plants are doing well, two of them I gave away. Hoping to pot up two or three more next year so we can have greenery in every window in our office. 🏢 Makes the bleakness of the winter much nicer.

I’m thinking 💭 about doing a side trip down to MacDowell County, WV after visiting New River Gorge. As you may know that’s where Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty started. I’ve heard it’s not changed much over the years. 🏠 I thought originally about going down to Hazard, Kentucky but I think that’s too far out of the way to just drive through and stop and grab a picture. I’d rather have an excuse to visit an area beyond just visiting a hick town.

Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until November 🥧 when the sun will be setting at 5:48 pm with dusk at 6:18 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 59 and 48 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.

November is actually my favorite season of the year. 🦌 It’s time a before the snow is usually on the ground, but the leaves are off the trees and the skies often are quite blue. The air is crisp, the nights are cool and long. Big game season opens in the Southern Zone, Thanksgiving rolls around. 🦃 It’s the month before winter really gets underway most years.

Good evening! Clear and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 45 degrees.

I made up fish 🐠 sticks and went for my evening walk. 🚶 Definitely getting darker earlier but I do prefer now to do m walk earlier. This way when I procrastinate I don’t miss my walk. Plus doing the walk past the high school 🚸 during the winter months at nine o’clock is pretty desolate. I’ve heard they’ve had a lot of problems with muggings again in the city and who knows if they could spill out into the suburbs.

I got to Walmart to get the supplies I needed plus food for the weekend 🍲 and gased up Big Red. Finally got new boots, 👢 my old ones were in really rough shape. I’ll old pack tomorrow and get things ready as I have to leave by 7:30 AM on Saturday for the Save the Pine Bush Bird 🐦 Hike. After that I’ll probably paddle along Lily Lake and camp up at Pisceo-Powley Road for one last time this year and check out the Potholers on Sunday. 🏊 Going to be remarkably warm this weekend but I bet with these cold nights the water temperatures have fallen dramatically. Maybe they’ll also be some good color up north.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 44 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 3rd. Calm wind. Going to be another cold night. I probably should close the windows but I’m not willing to give up on the fresh air for this year. It might be chilly when I climb out of bed but I have hot coffee and will shower 🚿 when I awake. Need to get used to the cold for autumn camping ⛺ and hunting season. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1979.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 60% illuminated. The moon will set at 12:49 am. The Last Quarter Moon will be tomorrow with partly cloudy skies. The Hunter Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, October 12th. Nice, while I’m on vacation. The sun will rise at 6:39 am with the first light at 6:11 am, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 41 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy dense fog before 8am. 🌁 Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 7th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.

I am trying to carefully plan out my autumn trip this year so it’s not so disorganized as two years ago. 🍂2017 was a tough year with my parents health, they had a lot of issues so my October Trip to West Virginia wasn’t very well planned but it worked out fine. It just didn’t involve seeing a lot of new places and the places I saw – namely that Ohiopyle State Park was underwhelming. But I’m more of a wilderness camper.⛺ I think this year I want to see Hyner View in Pennsylvania during the autumn and hopefully the leaves will still be on the trees up in Cannan Heights and the Black River Falls area and some good colors when I drive up Spruce Mountain the highest peak in the Mountain State. 🗻 Driving down to New River Gorge should be really interesting and give me a chance to see more of the mountain state, including parts of Southern West Virginia which are supposedly much more southern in culture.

In four weeks on October 17 the sun will be setting at 6:10 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 14 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 57 and 39 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 59 and 39 degrees. The record high of 85 degrees was set back in 1947.

Looking ahead, Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 is a month away, Halloween 🛥️ is in 6 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 10 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 11 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 14 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 18 weeks and National Pie Day 🍰 is in 4 months.

Good evening! Clear and 53 degrees at the Delmar. 🌟 Calm wind. Going to be a cold night. I thought about closing my windows but the heat is off and it’s not expected to get below freezing in Albany. I’ll just enjoy the hot coffee ☕ come morning.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 8th. Calm wind. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 32 occurred back in 1959.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 70% illuminated. The moon will set at 11:46 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Friday night. The Hunter Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, October 12th. The sun will rise at 6:38 am with the first light at 6:09 am, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 38 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 71 degrees at 3pm. Typical for tomorrow. Calm wind. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.

Doug Bullock’s Speech to Save the Pine Bush was quite good. 📢 No bull horn this time. He will be missed in the county legislature – he’s still on the Working Families line but I think most people know it’s time to move on. He can continue his activism in new ways. I helped him out on his first campaign 12 years ago but the democrats in his district apparently wanted a change – and his progressive advocacy never won him much in the way of corporate contributions.🌲I don’t agree with Doug on every issue but he’s a good guy in politics, for all the right reasons. ✊

So it looks like the proposal to re-power the ANSWERS plant and generate electricity is officially dead. 🏭 They’re going to tear it down instead build more solar on the plaza and in Oneida County and replace more of the lighting with solid state fixtures. It was so weird that they announced it during the Save the Pine Bush Dinner 📢 while Doug Bullock was speaking a two days before the climate march. Doug has been very vocal about opposing the plans as has the folks in PAUSE and the No Fracked Gas pipeline people. 🌎 At this point, we really shouldn’t be investing in more fossil infrastructure and the truth is that they didn’t really need the co-generation plant – it was wish list type thing 📃. Can they build the hundreds of acres of solar needed to go 100% solar for the Plaza? Only time will tell. A hundred million dollars once allocated to build the co-generation plant 💵 can buy a lot of panels. I do wonder though about outsourcing the panels to Oneida County.

I probably would have been involved with Doug’s campaign but I don’t get involved in politics much any more. 🏤 Some of its my work takes a lot of my time but also I’m less interested in politics than in years past. I’m more interested in self improvement and investing in my own future. 💰 Those who fight the good fight are doing God’s work but I don’t want to be part of the messy nature of politics. I just want to buffer myself from the harm of climate change and eventually own my own land out in the country in a freer state. 🐷

In four weeks on October 16 the sun will be setting at 6:12 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 27 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 56 and 36 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 60 and 39 degrees. The record high of 88 degrees was set back in 1947.

Tomorrow evening I’ll run to the store and get a camp chair, and maybe boots 👢 and get packed up for the weekend. I plan to head north as soon as the Pine Bush hike is over on Saturday. Should be a really nice evening.

I’ve gotten a few maps and done some more research 🗾 on the New River Gorge. Most of the other places in West Virginia I’m quite familiar with so I don’t expect to need much research but I did also get a map for hiking Dolly Sods. I got to get out my big West Virginia Monongahela National Forest map – I think I know where it is in the crawl space – and do some more planning. I have one of those free maps from AAA of West Virginia Roads outside of the National Forest but I’m thinking about getting a better quality Rand McNally map too for better details. This year’s trip I want better planned then in 2017 which was kind of a mess as I was dealing with my mom being in the hospital 🏥.

Looking ahead, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 1 weeks, Average High is 65 🍂 is in 2 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 7 weeks, Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 is in 8 weeks, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 11 weeks, Christmas 🎅 is in 14 weeks, New Years Day 2019 🎉 is in 15 weeks, National Bird Day 🐦 is in 17 weeks, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 4 months, 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 19 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 70 weeks.