Good morning! Happy Tea Party Day 🐍! Honestly if you are going to dump a bunch of tea, 🍵 I think it would be better to dump it and mix it with a bunch of manure 💩 for composting then dumping it in the Boston Harbor ⚓ where it can deplete the dissolved oxygen in the water 💦. But I agree 👍🏻 we are over taxed and we tax the wrong things – namely income over carbon emissions and waste generation. 💸 Next Wednesday is Festivus 🍖. I am still banned from my parents meatloaf which is loaded with Worcester sauce after telling them I preferred the stuff a college 🎓.

It’s the calm before the storm. Mostly cloudy and 13 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around noontime. 🌡️

It’s a cold morning ❄ and it looks like we are now going to get more snow 🌨 than originally expected. But who knows. Kind of cold for my morning walk 🚶🏻 and I keep putting my phone in my pocket and sticking my hands 👐🏻 there to stay warm. ♨ I guess working from home 🏡 means the snow won’t effect me much but it never did because the buses 🚍 run regardless of the weather. 🎄 It doesn’t look like much snow up north which is good if I want to get up there for Christmas weekend. Debating if I should put a tarp on my truck over the cap and windshield for easy snow removal. ☀️ I like to keep the batteries 🔋 trickle charged off the solar when it gets cold.

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 24 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees below normal. Northeast wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light drizzle by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1971. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 1981.❄

I have kind of busy day today but I’ll work from home most likely. 📶 Those 3d maps are fun but I need broadband to make them. But it would be a cold day to work at the library parking lot so I think I’ll stay home. The other work stuff I can do from my phone moving the files 📂 to my laptop for editing.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:52 am with sun having an altitude of 24° from the due south horizon (-46.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:38 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (238°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:24 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (220°) at an altitude of 13° from the horizon, 235,459 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:32 pm. At sunset, look for cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 24 degrees. There will be a northeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 23 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will snow, mainly after 8pm. The snow could be heavy at times. 🌨 Low of 21 degrees at 8pm. Typical for tonight. Northeast wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches possible. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1942.

Yeap, it’s going to snow 🌨. I think I can probably do my evening walk 🚶🏻 if I can get an early enough start there shouldn’t be too much snow on the ground and walking in the snow is always nice. Thursday morning maybe not so much but I could strap on skis I guess. 🎿

Today in 1965, the Vietnam War would escalate. 💣 General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.🪖 And in Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression. 💸 Good ol Dennis Kuchich and the big creditors of the Cleveland Power and Light company. A big set back for the public power industry 🏭. You don’t hear much from Dennis Kuchich anymore but I guess he’s pretty elderly 👴🏼 now. But aren’t we all getting old?

It looks like we will have decent snow for the weekend. ❄ Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 29. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees.

I am thinking that Saturday would be a nice day for cross country skiing 🎿 at Schodack Island State Park. I could then stock up on groceries 🍞🍲 at Aldi’s. They have an interesting of variety of things for cheap although less bulk than Wally World.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Festivus 🍖 when the sun will be setting at 4:26 pm with dusk at 4:58 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 50 and 18 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1990.

Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are 0.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ More coming tomorrow. Heading into a deep freeze the next few days. ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around 11 am. 🌡️

Tonight will snow likely, mainly after 4am. Cloudy 🌨, with a low of 26 degrees at 9pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 4th. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Might be a bit tricky with the commute, I’ll have to leave earlier tomorrow. 🚍 In 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1942.

It should be a pretty morning when the sun ☀ comes up with lots of snow around. ❄ Might also be good for the Save the Pine Bush Ski trip 🎿 on Saturday. I’ve yet to decide about going up north on Saturday night, depends on how sunny it will be and how deep the snow is. I wouldn’t mind a nice night in the wilderness but it looks like it’s going to be pretty cold. ⛺

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 61% illuminated. The moon will set at 11:38 am. The Last Quarter Moon will be tomorrow with a chance of snow showers. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:18 am with the first light at 6:46 am, which is 42 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, an increase of 24 seconds over last night.

It sucks thst I had to stay a little bit late last night at work to make up my late arrival, but so far that’s the first time I’ve been late to my new job.⌚ Its definitely a different experience being an hourly employee rather than a salary worker but at least most days I get to go home at five. It ultimately dudnt matter much because I gad a Save the Pine Bush meeting to go to.

Tomorrow will snow. 🌨 High of 30 degrees at 12pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical North wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light drizzle by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1984. 11.1 inches of snow fell back in 1970.❄

I won some really nice things at the Pine Bush raffle last night. 🌲I don’t know how I managed to win so many things, granted the few things I really liked I tossed a bunch of tickets 🎫 and apparently I was drawn a few times. I should also donate a bunch to Save the Pine Bush – I did kick in a bit at the event but I was originally planning on spending more. Well I’ll have more money to spend at the dinner 💵 and maybe I should mail ✉ in a check or do the Go Fund Me page. I still don’t know how I managed to win so much stuff. Honest, I didn’t bribe the judge I wasn’t there when things were called. I was in bed by then. 🎄Well at least I’ll have some nice Christmas gifts 📦.

I got the voltage sensitive I ordered from China today. 🔌 I am going to test it and built the wire harness necessary to operate it starting tomorrow night after work and maybe have it hooked up by the weekend. My hope is by the weekend to have it up and running so I never have to worry about having a weak start if I’m parked out in the sun ☀.

I have to admit lately i find I really miss spending time out in the wilderness and in the country. ⛺🐸🐷🐺🐮 I do hope that I get out to the Finger Lakes in a few weeks. I think its alk thr YouTube I estch lstely of those Idaho qnd Alaska off grid farm types – and all the other farm families that I watch that gets me craving the wilder side of life.😻The smell of the wood smoke and the dirt and manure. The sound of the axe and the diesel tractor. 🚜 Its so far away from Albany and the buses🚍and the suit and tie.👔

At any rate, Thursday is going to be a cold one after the snow ❄ falls. I think I’ll probably have to turn back up the heat. ♨It is what it is and honestly with the heat turned up its more comfortable in my bedroom.

In four weeks on January 13 the sun will be setting at 4:44 pm,🌄 which is 21 minutes and 25 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny skies and temperatures between 23 and 10 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 30 and 14 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1932.

Looking ahead, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 4 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 8 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 9 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 11 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 12 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 19 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 20 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 5 months, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 22 weeks and Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 23 weeks.

Good morning! Happy Tea Party Day 🐍! I should wear my Don’t Tread on Me shirt 👚, that is after work. I’ve always kind of admired them a bit for giving the Finger 👆to the British. Yeah, many of the original tea partiers were puritanical religious bigots ✝ against the Quakers who would be eventually run off to the Quaker State, besides being angry about the excessive taxes and regulations on the American frontier. 🐺 Next Monday is Festivus 🍖. The holiday for the rest of us, including those who prefer coffee ☕ to tea on the morning. I like it good and strong 💪 in my perculator pot. 💭 That said I recommend separating out your coffee grounds and tea bags and composting the source separated organic waste 🐽, the S-SOW as the guberment likes to say. Plus if you burn it 🔥 coffee grounds don’t burn well — better to fertilize the fields and the garden.

This morning mostly cloudy and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 0.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ But we are getting a few more inches on Tuesday of nuisance snow ⛄. ️Things will start to thaw out at around noontime. 🌡️

It looks like I am going to be into work late today. 🚌 It just was a few too minutes late to make the walk down to the express bus, and I missed the earlier local. The normal local I would take is running about 15 minutes late, so I’ll have to clock in late, ⏲ and then maybe stay a few minutes later in the evening — but I think I should still be able to catch the express bus as it normally isn’t to State and Swan until 5:14 PM.

The one neat thing is I guess I won some of the paintings at the Save the Pine Bush Raffle 🦋, so I’ll have some Christmas presents to give away. 🖼 I didn’t think much of it — I just bought a bunch of raffle tickets to support Save the Pine Bush. Honestly, I ended up spending less money then I expected at the Save the Pine Bush benefit, but maybe I’ll give a bigger check at the dinner on Wednesday night. Or send them in a check. Tonight I have another Save the Pine Bush meeting to go to.👪

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 33 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 23rd. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light drizzle by afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1971. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 1981.❄

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 31 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 26 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will snow likely, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌨, with a low of 23 degrees at 3am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 12th. Maximum wind chill around 23 at 6pm; Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1942.

So yeah, the Boston Tea Party 🍵 happened today in Boston 1773 and would lead to the Intolerable Acts and ultimately the American Revolution. 🐍 They dumped a bunch of over taxed nasty Indian Tea into the Boston Harbor ⚓ and said to the world 🌍 we are going to grow our own. 🌽🍎🍄🐷🐮 I have a lot of respect for their individualistic spirit. And it’s not like pig shit 💩 is going to ruin our environment.

Honestly, I do agree strongly with the tea partierers that jack-booted thugs 🐍 are the greatest threat to our liberty, and we spend too much money on the war department and the police — and we worship them like they’re God and not government bureaucrats enforcing often unjust and bigoted laws. 👮 If we had fewer laws, we’d all be better off. When I own my own land, I want the government to stay off it, let me burn whatever I want, shoot my guns, farm and slaughter my own animals. 🐔🐖🐐🔫 You do your thing, I’ll do mine.

Today in 1965, the Vietnam War would escalate. General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966. 💣And in Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression in 1977 💰with Mayor Kunich at the helm. He was quite the flash in the pan when he ran for president a few times as a peace ✌ candidate by the you haven’t heard much from him lately. I think I might have even voted for him one or two times. ❎ A time for peace, I swear it’s not too late.

Cloudy oh so cloudy weekend ahead before Christmas. ☁ Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 31. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. My hopes off getting up to the Adirondacks after the Pine Bush Hike seem increasingly dashed. 🗻 But the forecast could change by then and if it doesn’t happen I am still going to the Finger Lakes National Forest in two weeks. ⛺

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 when the sun will be setting at 4:44 pm with dusk at 5:15 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 23 and 10 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 71 back in 1932.