Good evening! Partly cloudy and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 You can see the stars ✨ at times. Breezy, ️24 mph breeze from the west 🌬 with gusts up to 45 mph 💨💨💨. It’s quite mild out for mid April this evening but that wind is relentless, especially the gusts so I decided to head in after listening to the podcast I was listening to. 👂 The dew point is 46 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 4 am. ☃️

For a while I sat out back watching the laser light firefly display I bought a few years back 🐝 much to the dismay of my parents who think it is tacky and causes air planes to crash. ✈ I think it’s fun, especially watching it sparkle in the bushes ✨ on a dark night. Doesn’t work so well in the city with the lights or if I have a lot of lights at camp. 🎧 I listened to two podcasts out back before I got tired 😴 of the cold wind out back.

I got another report to do for work today 📝 so I dived right in. Making good progress, with the limited distraction free mobile broadband internet for work I’m making a lot of progress on the report.

Didn’t go to the laundromat or grocery store today – I ended up taking a picture of the health insurance invoice and doing it online avoiding having to mail ✉ the paper work. Without needing to go to the post office, leaving home 🏡 wasn’t that pressing and I had no reason to leave home on this often rainy day 💦with the constant threat of high winds and downpours which didn’t happen in Delmar. Rain early and wind late here.

Rode the exercise bike 🚲 for an hour and then went for my evening walk 🚶 followed by sitting out back in my comfortable lawn chair watching the sunset and then virtual fireflies first flicker on the ground and then the trees. 🐝 It was nice until the wind really picked up.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. Breezy, with a west wind 14 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 45 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1973.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 60% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:56 am, followed by dawn at 5:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:17 am in the east-northeast (77°) and last for 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:55 am with sun in the east (83°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 38 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 51 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 31st. West wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. That wind will make it feel kind of chilly for sure. But it still might be a nice day to soak up the sun, ☀ working out back. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 83 was set in 1968. 1.4 inches of snow fell back in 1950.❄

I might still go to Schodack Island State Park and work down by the river for a couple of hours 🚢 – my work laptop has a very strong battery 🔋 and then go for a walk 🚶 and hit up Aldi’s before coming home. 🍏 At least that’s a plan. I do need to consider when I can get to the laundromat but that’s less pressing as I don’t have as many dirty clothes 👚 as I work from home, rewearing jeans 👖 multiple days with t shirts that don’t take up much space in the wash.

In four weeks on May 11 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (296°) at 8:06 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 27 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 65 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 68 and 46 degrees. The record high of 90 degrees was set back in 1911.

With everything at PAUSE 🔜and it being another chilly April, it just kind of seems odd to think 💭 summer is not all that far away. While work has picked up, much of life has kind of stopped 🔴 even as the seasons march on. Six weeks to Memorial Day and seven to June.🍹 But with everything shut down it almost seems not to matter. That said life goes on and I’m finding ways to adapt and make due.

Looking ahead, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 2 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 3 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 5 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 6 weeks, June 🍹 is in 7 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 10 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 39 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good evening! Drizzle,and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north breeze at 10 mph. 🍃 The skies will clear tomorrow around 7 pm. It’s not going to be a real great weekend.

I am sitting out back after my evening walk, 🚶 as truth be told I’m tired as last night I didn’t take a sleeping pill 💊 and laid in bed all night listening to the disturbing news 📰. It’s actually a pretty mild evening, but then again it’s April in the year that is kind of timeless. Watching the traffic on Delaware Avenue and you see a car go but every few minutes, traffic is really light with all the bars and things do on Friday night closed down. The Herb Alpert record I’m listening 👂 to on my wireless headphones never gets old. That album is 56 years old now. Born 21 years before me. Too cold for spring peepers tonight

Tonight will have patchy drizzle with scattered showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 41 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 25th. North wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. 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 30 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1954.

Honestly, I don’t want to back inside as I’m tired of being home so much. 🏡 Monday and Tuesday should be nice enough that I can work outside and one of those days I’ll probably bring my laptop out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center to work or at least download videos and podcasts. 🐸

I am almost done on the once again revised blog theme 📷 that will emphasize full screen photos with more interactive and immersive experience, fixing some long time issues with the blog. 📝 Learning more about the guts and the WordPress API.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 79% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (157°) at an altitude of 64° from the horizon, some 229,800 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 September 25^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 12:59 am, followed by dawn at 6:06 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:34 am in the east (82°) and last for 2 minutes and 56 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:11 am with sun in the east (88°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 6 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 57 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 12th. North wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1950. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄

The things were looking better for the weather this weekend ☁ but the storm on the coast has lingered around. I might do Schodack Island State Park and Aldi’s again although I have no reason of need to go into the city tomorrow. 🍏 I like the small size of Aldi which is good when you want to get in and out during a pandemic. They’re also very good quality food despite all being those odd store brands. Or maybe I’ll explore the Papsacani Island or whatever it’s called, that bird sanctuary on the river tomorrow and sit down by the river for a while, 🐦 hopefully alone where I can enjoy some solitude by the river. Ticks might be bad, no a good time to get Lyme disease 🐜, although I got a mailing this weekend announcing on April 1st, my insurance covers telemedicine for free, although not real helpful 😷 without internet access.

Originally was thinking about hiking several miles of dirt road up at Partridge Run and doing some fishing in Rennselearville but not if the weather is crap 🎣 even though it would be better fishing. But hiking on dreary days can be dreary but I could change my mind. Walking those dirt roads not likely to see or run into many people. 🚶 Of course with all this paranoia over Coronavirus I probably shouldn’t publicly announce I’m going to be anywhere in the wilderness due to the risk of internet shaming (you left your moldy apartment!), even though I’ve been incredibly socially isolated for the past three weeks 👤 and have had minimal human contact, always stepping far off the trail when I pass people.

That said I’m watching the forecast slide downhill for next weekend ☁ and I’m watching the weather but I’m not sure if I’ll be spending some nights in the wilderness or not. ⛺ If I do, it might be close to home or it might not be. I have a multitude of ideas away from people for a few nights in pure wilderness. 👥I don’t plan to use any public accommodation after I leave home, so no risk of picking up the bug 🐛 and not being able to wash it away. I’m not going to tell anybody when I’m leaving or returning, or where or if I’m going. I’ll pull the battery from my phone so no one can find me until I return. I’ll park where I can’t be seen from the road. I can take care of myself, live a good life out in the wilderness without being the governments’ bitch. 🐶 Have a good time, mind my own business. It’s the safest thing to do in an era of such bigotry by those who have adopted the mindset of government minders. Everybody wants to be a Chinese Uncle Police officer 👮 these days. Or maybe I won’t go anywhere at all. I don’t have to post about it on the internet for sure. 🙊 Don’t tread on me.

I am so tempted to create a Facebook logo that says, “Duck You, I hope you die from Coronavirus” 👾in response to all the social distancing memes and frames. I know that’s not very nice. But I think the self appointed Uncle Police are so obnoxious. Its not like many public accommodations are open anymore that you can spread the virus at any more but it sure feels good to the self appointed Uncle Police 🚨 on Facebook to shame people wherever they can. I’m not rushing to the store any more than absolutely necessary (once a week) and trying to stay at least 20 feet away from others on the street or trail – I apply rubbing alcohol to my hands on my truck 👐 and wash good as soon as I’m home. And I pray. 🙏But not to the God of some self appointed health minister in the church ⛪ of the government. My libertarianism is starting to show through.

I actually liked a promote page about North Idaho living from a real estate company today. I bet parts of Idaho are really nice and wild, 🐺 but the state is also starting to get over developed by refugees from California. I do follow pig farmer 🐽 North Country Off Grid (he doesn’t even have a small solar electricity system or didn’t until recent) and that other Yak Farmer from Idaho. The issues that North Country off grid has from suburbanites developing neighboring lands makes me think twice but then again the wrong kind of neighbors moving in can be a problem anywhere. I don’t know, only a few more years in New York and then I’ll make the jump and move out west or maybe to the Ozarks. 🚜 I’ve heard a lot good things about rural Tennessee and while West Virginia is beautiful, there is something quite alarming about that state’s coal fueled politics. 🏭 Every buck saved today is one closer to a better tomorrow. Time goes by quickly ⏳and moving day will you know it. I “can’t wait” but good things happen to those who wait, so I will wait doing the best I can every day to improve my own life👍.

In four weeks on May 1 (which is May Day) the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (292°) at 7:55 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 49 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 56 and 42 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 65 and 43 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 2001.

Looking ahead, Good Friday ✝️ is in 1 week, May 🕊 is in 4 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 9 weeks, and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 7 months.

🇺🇸🦅Only 48 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸