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November 5, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Thursday. Three weeks to Thanksgiving 🦃. Sunny and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃.

A bit of a cold ❄ morning but when I stepped outside already it’s feeling warm ☀ with the sun. I have some work to do this morning ☕ but once that’s done and I’m finished 💻 I’m going to head out to Madison County for camping. ⛺ I’ll be work remotely the next two days and then spend the weekend a around Cazenovia.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 66 degrees at 1pm. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 1st. South wind 8 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became partly cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1994. 3.0 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄

The leaves are done and the land is browns and grays 🍂 prevailed but it’s remarkably warm and sunny. It should be a a nice drive. I expect a quiet drive out there but I have to stop 🛑 to do my online meetings at a library.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:40 am with sun having an altitude of 31.5° from the due south horizon (-39.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:03 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (242°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (249°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:44 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 7 seconds with dusk around 5:12 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 63 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 26 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 27th. South wind 5 to 10 mph. In 2019, we had light rain. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 15 occurred back in 1951.

Awesome weekend on tap, with temperatures running 16 degrees above normal. 😎 Saturday, patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 67. Light southwest wind. Maximum dew point of 49 at 1pm. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 67. Maximum dew point of 51 at 3pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

It’s going to be a nice four days out here 🐮, a nice change from spending so much time in Albany. Farm country is pretty different from the Adirondacks. I might do a longer trip come December.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Thanksgiving 🦃 when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:56 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 58 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 44 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1979.

Big Mountains

October 21, 2020 Night

Good evening! Overcast and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 60 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 3 am.

Definitely a nice mild evening for sitting out back. 💺 I went for my evening walk, 🚶🏻 it was quiet and pleasant. Earlier I walked down to the library 📚 and worked down on the bench there. Other than that I answered most of the emails 📧 and calls from my phone and used the laptop 💻 network card for some random little work things I couldn’t do from my phone.

Still having some issues getting my Post GIS databases 💽 and the mysql databases working now that I’ve upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04. Apparently I had to restore the mysql database from the dump file from before and fully reset the postgresql due to incompatibilities. It’s a good excuse to update to the latest version of the Open Street Map database for New York State. 🗺 I’ll do that tomorrow. Also having some issues with the built in sound card after upgrading although most of the time now I use an external Bluetooth adapter. 🔌

From time to time I’ve been noticing a smokey smell in my apartment midday while working at home. ☁️ I think something electronic is running too hot but I only notice it when I’ve been working for a whilem on my laptop. I doubt it’s the computer 🖥 and I hope it’s not a wiring problem in my apartment but I don’t know. It seems more noticeable when the windows are open. I’ll figure it out eventually.

Tonight will have a slight chance of sprinkles before midnight. Not the kind on your ice cream. 🍦 I did think about getting ice cream at Stewart’s today when I got milk 🥛 but decided it was unnecessary calories and expense. Mostly cloudy ☁️, with a low of 52 degrees at 6am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 10pm. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 33% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Saturday, October 31. The darkest hour is at 12:41 am, followed by dawn at 6:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:17 am in the east-southeast (104°) and last for 3 minutes Sunrise is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:56 am with sun in the east-southeast (111°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 14 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 29th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 8am. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. A year ago, we had mist in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1979. There was a dusting of snow in 2005.❄

Should be another really nice day. 😎 I’ll have to work out back so I can absorb as much sun rays as possible ☀ in late October. Soon I expect to be working back in the office a lot more so it’s better to enjoy the fall weather while I still can. I’m sure though that the landlord will be around soon – probably Thursday tomorrow – with the leaf blower 🍁 so I might have to go somewhere else to work.

I think I will stay in town this weekend 🏡 because I’m going to be so busy with work and once again, Albany will have the best weather in Upstate NY. 🌦️There talking about rain and clouds in Spectulator and Cazenovia, the two places 200 miles apart I considered going this weekend but sun back in Albany. Go figure.

I keep delaying putting my camping stuff away 🏕 but I’ll probably do it tomorrow. It’s all cleaned up and ready to go back in the crawl space but if I was leaving tomorrow morning I wasn’t going to put it away.

In four weeks on November 18 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (244°) at 4:30 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 33 minutes and 18 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had drizzle showers, cloudy and temperatures between 41 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 47 and 31 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1928.

Looking ahead, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 2 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 3 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is a month away, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 7 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 8 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 2 months, Festivus 🍖 is in 9 weeks, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 10 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 12 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 13 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 16 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 17 weeks.

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God Rays

For a while, one couldn't see any of the sunset, because the sun had dropped behind a bank of clouds. But it turned out to be a beautiful evneing.

Taken on Sunday July 26, 2020 at Notes.

Down To Moscow Hill Camping Area

Rogers Environmental Education Center, like much of Madison and Oneida Counties was a sea of browns and grays, as the lack of snow left the land open and exposesed. The corn residue and manure sat in forefront, waiting dorimently for naothr planting season to occur.

Taken on Sunday December 29, 2019 at Brookfield, New York.

Golden hour (photography) – Wikipedia

Golden hour (photography) – Wikipedia

When the Sun is low above the horizon, sunlight rays must penetrate the atmosphere for a greater distance, reducing the intensity of the direct light, so that more of the illumination comes from indirect light from the sky (Thomas 1973, 9–13), reducing the lighting ratio. This is technically a type of lighting diffusion. More blue light is scattered, so if the Sun is present, its light appears more reddish. In addition, the Sun's low angle above the horizon produces longer shadows.

The term hour is used figuratively; the effect has no clearly defined duration and varies according to season and latitude. The character of the lighting is determined by the sun's altitude, and the time for the Sun to move from the horizon to a specified altitude depends on a location's latitude and the time of year (Bermingham 2003, 214). In Los Angeles, California, at an hour after sunrise or an hour before sunset, the sun has an altitude of about 10–12. For a location closer to the Equator, the same altitude is reached in less than an hour, and for a location farther from the equator, the altitude is reached in more than one hour. For a location sufficiently far from the equator, the Sun may not reach an altitude of 10, and the golden hour lasts for the entire day in certain seasons.

In the middle of the day, the bright overhead Sun can create strong highlights and dark shadows. The degree to which overexposure can occur varies because different types of film and digital cameras have different dynamic ranges. This harsh lighting problem is particularly important in portrait photography, where a fill flash is often necessary to balance lighting across the subject's face or body, filling in strong shadows that are usually considered undesirable.

Because the contrast is less during the golden hour, shadows are less dark, and highlights are less likely to be overexposed. In landscape photography, the warm color of the low Sun is often considered desirable to enhance the colours of the scene. It is the best time of day for any type of photography since the light is properly diffused and warm.

December 29, 2019 Night

Good evening! Rain and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a east breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Back home on this rainy evening. It would have been fairly miserable camping tonight and it looks like we are stuck in this rainy pattern for a while, then it will get cold. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Wednesday around noontime. ☃️

I got home and unpacked. 💼 Not too difficult as my gear didn’t get that muddy and I only had one day worth of food and clothing packed. Moreover I’ve been leaving more and more of my camping gear in the truck year round and I have seperate cooking utensils now for at home versus at camp. 🍴 I had fish for dinner 🐠 and started looking at storing the dash cam photos and videos 📹 I got. Tomorrow I’ll walk down to the library and upload them if it’s not raining too hard. It’s kind of nice that I don’t have to work tomorrow.

Tonight will rain before 1am, then rain or freezing rain. 🌧 Low of 33 degrees at 10pm. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 12th. East wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. Probably just rain here. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 23 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1933.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌙 with 22% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:33 am. The is on Wednesday night with partly cloudy skies. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:52 am, which is 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 55 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 33 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain or freezing rain before noon, then rain between noon and 4pm, then rain and sleet after 4pm. High of 34 degrees at 12pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 22nd. Southeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 33 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1984. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

I have tomorrow off because the original plan had me out camping. ⛺ It will be a bit of a staycation I guess. Tuesday if there is still snow left in the hilltowns I’m thinking to a local state forest to back country camp in a hot tent for New Years Eve 🎇 but the key 🔑 is I need snow on the ground and roads not too icy for that to happen. No guarantees at this point.

I do want to do more winter camping for sure. Ideally I’d prefer to stay somewhere I can drive my truck to so I have electric 💡 and gear nearby but that’s not a show stopper for me. I’m really interested to find out if Moscow Hill campground is plowed, as that would be perfect even if it’s just far enough to get off the road. That said, I bet there are a lot of snowmobiles that assemble in that area going brap brap all winter long but even so I bet it thins out at night. 📞 I’ll have to call the DEC office in Sherburne and find out. Also if the snow isn’t deep I should be able to get there as the ground is really solid there due to the reinforcement for the horse trailers and hooves during the summer 🐴.

I don’t know but I was just taken in by the beauty of Southern Madison County and Northern Otsego County. 🐮 Yeah things did kind of smell earthy and like cow poop 💩 but that’s country living. The browns and the grays were pretty, they stirred something in my soul. I think it’s so fortunate to those who are able to chip a life out of the rural country, if by agriculture and one of many other jobs, some small, some decent paying but all tough with limited opportunity compared to the big cities.

Between the forested, snow covered hills full of wildlife and the rich farmlands below its such beautiful country. ⛲ So many quaint old farm houses and run down trailers, homesteaders with a family pig 🐽 or cow to muddy farms with old fashioned tie stall barns 🐮, milking twice a day with surge milkers and fifty year old open cab tractors with box spreaders. Weeds growing up around broken and forgotten farm equipment, piles of manure rotting away to be spread someday in the future. Trees to be split and someday warm the farm house. Four wheelers for fun and getting around the farm, a goat 🐐 tied to a tree, piles of junk to be scrapped some day or burnt to a crisp in a bonfire. 🔥 Rural scenes like this exist across the nation but I live in the city and make my money 💵 doing the urban thing now saving for a better tomorrow when I can own land in a freer state and have an off grid property, hopefully in an area as beautiful and wonderful as Southern Madison County.

I’d someday love 😍 to live in a place like that but not in an oppressively liberal state like New York which doesn’t really understand rural communities. After all two out of three New Yorkers live in the metropolitan region 🚇 – that is Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, New York City and Long Island. Might soon be 70 percent of New Yorkers. Pennsylvania is nice but it kind of suffers from the same problem – and its also an incredibly expensive state to live in especially with the recent gas tax hikes ⛽. City life may be getting better, as may regulations for fair commerce with business but its also an incredibly hard to make it in the small towns. I don’t think Trump is the answer but neither is his counterpart closer to home who exists 180 degrees out of phase but in many ways is similar.

2020 is going to be a big year for all of us 🎇 but my hope is it will be another step forward towards a better life. I’ll work hard and try to advance my career and help my company grow and move forward. What’s good for them is ultimately good for myself. 💼 I know working in the windowless basement office 🏢, paying my dues, someday will pay off with more career advancement, more money to save 💵 towards that off grid property out in the country.

Climate change will probably really kick in during the next decade, and it’s going to be a wild ride for mankind. I don’t think whatever comes out of the next election in the coming year will change that but it will bite us in the next decade and prove that we are doing much too little too late. 🌎 People use per capita stats to blame the guy with the rusty pickup and burping cows in the tie stall barn in Madison County but if you don’t look at the big cities for the root of the problem your just playing games with statistics. 🔢But my focus is enjoying life and saving for a better future and not saving the world.

In four weeks on January 26 the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 26 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 28 and 14 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 59 degrees was set back in 1950.

Looking ahead, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 1 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 4 weeks, 37th Birthday 🎉 is a month away, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 5 weeks, Snow Moon 🌕 is in 6 weeks, March 🌨 is in 9 weeks, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 10 weeks, Ides of March ✝ is in 11 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 14 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 15 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 19 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 20 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 23 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 24 weeks.

Some Snow on the Trees