Good evening! Rain showers and 48 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a west breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 2 am and it will snow for a while. ☃️

Today was a modestly busy day at work 💼, I also worked down at the library parking lot for a bit. Got busy and didn’t have a chance really to research screen houses anymore. Hiked in the afternoon at Papscanee Nature Preserve and then got groceries at Aldi’s. I just like shopping 🏪 there during the pandemic as it’s fast in and out. They don’t have everything, I might do an online order at Wal-Mart if I can come up with $35 in things that I need.

While I was at the library there was a big protest past town hall about the quarantine business restrictions. ✊ It certainly was loud. 📢 Lots of horn honking. I think it’s good that people’s voices are being heard, it can’t only be the suits that are making all the decisions without the public’s voice being heard. 👓 Doctors and scientists know a lot but they can’t be the only voice heard from.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy early, then becoming mostly clear 🌧, with a low of 36 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 12th. West wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1968.

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon with 99% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the southeast (128°) at an altitude of 13° from the horizon, some 229,566 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 28^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Friday, May 22. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:11 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:43 am in the east-northeast (66°) and last for 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 14 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:22 am with sun in the east-northeast (73°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 37 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 18 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 55 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 9th. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1936. There was a dusting of snow in 1977.❄

In four weeks on June 4 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (302°) at 8:29 pm,🌄 which is 26 minutes and 26 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 70 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 75 and 53 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1919.

Looking ahead, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is a month away.

🇺🇸🦅Only 15 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good evening! Cloudy and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 am. Not a half bad night, I went out for my evening walk. Honestly, though I do wish I had done more walking but it was kind of a cloudy and gray day. Plus I had some work come in at the end of the day, so I never made it out to Five Rivers like I thought about going out earlier in the day.

Kind of a rather quiet day although work was modestly busy. 💼 I ended up spending quite a bit of the morning at the library parking lot, doing work and then working on several blog posts. Then I came home and worked on a few other little projects, going through a lot of old digital elevation model data I downloaded some time ago. Honestly I am feeling a lot better on the doxycycline but still awful tired. I’m hoping by tomorrow things really start to kick in. Already I’m not so sore. I do hate ticks.

Tonight will have isolated showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 21st. Northwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1874.

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon with 99% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the southeast (136°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, some 227,867 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 26^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:12 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:44 am in the east-northeast (66°) and last for 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 14 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:23 am with sun in the east-northeast (73°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 39 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 21 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 24th. Light northwest wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1930. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

In four weeks on June 3 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (302°) at 8:28 pm,🌄 which is 26 minutes and 49 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 65 and 44 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 75 and 53 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1925.

So yes, June is just around the corner.🏖 It is coming so quickly with everything is PAUSE. I am not expecting the swimming pools to be open this summer, although I expect the potholers to be cool and water in the various swimming holes to be quite refreshing. I do worry that it might be a bit hot working this summer from home, so I’m hoping at least my air conditioned office downtown will be open. I’m not interested in getting air conditioning at home, just like I refuse to have Internet at home.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 7 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 37 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 16 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Happy 8 PM Sunset 🌇! Two weeks to Flower Moon 🌕. Partly sunny and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃.

It is a rather beautiful morning, ☀ I got out and got some fresh air before getting down to work this morning. Its going to be much colder this week so I figure enjoy it before it gets nastier out. ☁

Today will start out partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 9am. Clouds will push in by midday. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

Today in the afternoon I’m going to head to the laundromat 👚 and get my clothes washed while I work out in my truck. They have Wi-Fi there and it should be a decent enough day to work in my truck.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 63.5° from the due south horizon (-7.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:20 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (287°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (293°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:00 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 8 seconds with dusk around 8:30 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (132°) at an altitude of 36° from the horizon, 226,292 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:09 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 53 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 14 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear ☁, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1974.

Bitterly cold weekend on tap for March, I mean May. ❄ Saturday, a chance of rain and snow. Snow in May in Albany. Not just the outlying areas. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. I checked, it was colder in 1977. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

Needless to say I plan to stay in town this weekend ☀ but I might try to go somewhere close and do some hiking. 🚶 I want to figure out what kind of screen house I want to buy for camping as if I go north the following weekend I’m sure the bugs will be our full blast. Although I’m learning more towards Duck Pond in Schoharie County.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Flower Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:14 pm with dusk at 8:46 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 73 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 2017.

Good evening! Partly clear and 64 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 46 degrees. Nice evening, sat out back for a while. Not feeling terrible but still a little achy from the Lyme. I still need to take the doxycline I got from the doctor Friday. 💊

Sleeping with the windows open tonight ⬛ which is nice until I heard the sirens from the meat wagon 🚑go roaring by. I wonder if it’s somebody dying of Coronavirus? Hopefully nobody I know. It’s a question one always asks these days.

I thought about staying up north one more night and driving home early tomorrow 🚘 but I decided against that as I broke camp midday to go hiking. 🚶 While hiking the remote section of the abandoned Dunning Pond Snowmobile Trail was quiet I eventually lost the trail as it got into dense woods with lots of trees down and few of the old markers. 🔴 Some nice views of the gorge and then a lot of it was an eroded mountain road until the trail left the road and disappeared into the woods. This wouldn’t have been a big problem if I had the GPS tracks from my Google County Maps part of the blog but of course I managed to somehow delete them off my phone. I got to make sure I have them on the phone along with USGS Topo maps saved. I would have also had a better chance of following the herd path up to Eagle Pond that I had lost on Saturday if I had that data saved. 🌐Well there always is future trips up north.

It was a pretty good weekend up north 😎 with lots of sun and actually quite mild and warm most of the weekend except for brief rain shower around 10 pm Saturday night 💦when I ended up retiring to my truck cap earlier than I had planned. Had a nice big fire 🔥 at the same campsite I’ve been at the past few times I’ve been up north on the East Branch Sacandaga River. ⛺ Some traffic 🚥 noise but pretty nice. Spent a lot of time laying back in the hammock, soaking up the sun. ☀ The sun felt good especially when I felt achy from the Lyme. Warm enough a good portion of the weekend I could just lay out with a t shirt 👚 on.

Left my Bluetooth speaker 🔊 home which was annoying when I wanted to listen to podcasts and music 🎶. I’m going to start leaving that in the truck. Better to charge it there too – I don’t pay for the unused solar power the truck produces while parked with the solar controller in float mode. 🔋 Also forgot ketchup for my hotdogs – ended up topping them with baked beans and cheese. 🍣

Explored more of the Fox Lair remains, I want to do one of those historical aerial photo comparisons, especially if I can find the 1942 aerial photo 📷. Not a lot left of the ruins, but I wonder if I can find more old pictures on the internet. 🏰Did some walking 🚶 along NY 8 just for exercise too and to take in the scenery.

Came back relatively early, I was unpacked by about six. 🏡 Laid back on my bed for a while before showering 🚿 and shaving. Got a nice tan. Those side burns I’ve grown are coming in nicely but I do need a hair cut 💇. I’m going to do some trimming myself in the morning as who knows when the barber 💈 is going to be allowed to reopen. My barber is so elderly, I wonder if he will just hang up his hat 🎩 after the pandemic. I decided to avoid the expressway and cities home so I took NY 30 to Duanesburg Churches Road past the Mariaville Farm to US 20. Pretty drive with things greening up outside Amsterdam but I tell you there are some sharp curves on NY 30 south of Amsterdam. 🔶

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 49 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 21st. West wind 6 to 8 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 1985.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 85% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south (175°) at an altitude of 52° from the horizon, some 226,511 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 22^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:16 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:48 am in the east-northeast (68°) and last for 3 minutes and 8 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:27 am with sun in the east-northeast (74°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 46 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers between 11am and 1pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 57 degrees at 11am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. Northwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

Tomorrow I probably should go to the laundromat 👖👕 👚 and wash some clothes and probably my sheets too. I can probably bring my laptop there and work from there, uploading pictures from the weekend that was. I’m good on food but the two gallons of milk I bought last week is almost all drunk. I do like my cow 🐮 beverages. Other than that I should be good on food until mid week.

As I noted previously, last weekend I got another tick bite. 🐜I was sore found it on Tuesday. Its been weird – sometimes I feel fine other times terribly stiff and sore. No bulls eye though. Went to the doctor on Friday, she kind of thought I didn’t have Lyme but gave me doxycline. 💊 I held off taking it as I went to the Adirondacks for the weekend and knew doxycline and sun don’t mix due to the risk of severe sunburn. I’m also a little mixed on my concern – it stings from time to time around where I was bit, I’ve been super sleepy at times. 😴 I don’t want to take an antibiotic I don’t need. But I guess the doctor while questioning 🙋 me said I should take it. I don’t know what to think.

It was such a werid experience going to the doctors office during the pandemic. 😫The doors had big signs warning people that if they had cold or flu symptoms they aren’t welcome and that they did not offer Coronavirus testing there. The whole experience was kind of odd and frightening. 👾

While I’m always cautious about social distancing and wearing a mask out in public places but between the limited vision under the banada, the empty doctors office, the hand sanitizer everywhere and all these things like a special Coronavirus questionnaire that I had to do on my phone before the doctor would see me. 📱 I was so creeped out by the experience.

In four weeks on May 31 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (301°) at 8:26 pm,🌄 which is 27 minutes and 53 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, mist and temperatures between 76 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 74 and 52 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 2013.

It looks like for Mothers Day it’s going to be cold and they might get snow in the Adirondacks. ❄ It does not look like a good weekend to get out of town. I’m still thinking about a mid May trip out to Schoharie County – maybe three nights with me working from my truck on a Monday. ⛺ I’m thinking the last week of May – the one after Memorial Day Weekend – to do a three night trip to Piseco Powley Road starting that Thursday night before the weekend if it is nice. I hope to have the screen house by then to avoid the bugs. Peak black fly season isn’t so bad if I have shelter during the day as black flies aren’t out after dark. Memorial Day Weekend proper I’ll stay home 🏡 most likely to avoid the crowds especially if other developed campgrounds are closed forcing people into the back country taking up all the good sites. I’m also seriously thinking about planning my summer vacation up at Piseco Powley Road – and a week at the House Pond Swimming Hole could make up for all the state park pools being closed. 🏊 I’d have to see about getting a camping permit.

Looking ahead, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 1 week, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 2 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 5 weeks, Fathers Day 👨 is in 6 weeks, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 6 months and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 6 months.

🇺🇸🦅Only 19 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸