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Bird’s Eye Views of Partridge Run
For today’s fodder, we will be checking out some of the land features of Partridge Run from Google Maps Satellite pictures.
1) The Gulf.
The Gulf is one of the most notable features of Partridge Run. A deep cut into the land, it’s cliffs are steep. Going in their, you find plants and animals that can survive only with darkness for long periods of time.
Google Maps.
Photo of Area.
2) Upper Gravel Pit
This is the gravel pit off of Peasley Road. It’s the biggest gravel pit at Partridge Run, and always an interesting place to explore, with shot up targets and other interesting places.
Google Maps.
Photo of Area.
3) White Pine Planation Next to Man-Made Swamp.
This swamp / pond is man-made dike, next to a dense white pine planation, planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Google Maps.
Photo of Area.
4) Lower Pond on Beaver Road.
This pond is another man-made one with a long dike.
Google Maps.
Photo of Area.
5) Partridge Run Road.
A rather muddy Partridge Run Road in early springtime.
Google Maps.
Photo of Area.
Farming and the Natural Landscape.
Farmers they say live off the fat of the earth.
In other words, they plant, they raise, the grow food and fiber in the dirt which they either sell or feed to livestock. The same could be said of ranchers, or for that matter loggers — both who generally use and manage natural resources both for today and tomorrow. They work the land in ways that tries to tie down and maximize nuetriant uptake in plants, use science to produce more product with less impact and fewer inputs.
Farms by their very nature are quite adaptable land-use pattern. A farm can become a housing development, a forest or wilderness area, a commerical plaza, an industrial area or a highway. Or it can continue to be agriculture. For one, farms are generally large properties, with one owner. Many farms are hundreds of acres, in some parts of country that are flatter and less agriculturally productive, farms can be thousands of acres managed by a single family. That makes land transfers and wide-spread development or conservation much easier.
Farm land is generally lightly developed, as most fields are dirt that could quickly grow back up to forest if abandoned. Or paved or built over. Farming in many ways is a temporary land use, much more so then when a farm land is paved-over, subdivided, or used for other non-natural purposes. Developed land is often in many hands, and contains buildings, infrastructure, and other things that can be costly to remove. Farm land also is more productive to wildlife, often the home of many species of birds, deer, coyotes and other wildlife. It absorbs carbon dioxide, and is part of a healthy landscape.
I think it’s a nice Saturday for a walk 🚶
I thought about going somewhere special or for a ride somewhere on the bike but I like the simplicity of just a walk out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center and enjoying the day before inevitably the clouds and rain re-appear.
Good morning! Partly sunny and 54 degrees at the Phillipen Kill Preserve. 🌤️ There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃.
No ambitious plans for today, ☺️ just a quiet simple walk out to Five Rivers to observe nature 🐦 🐸 and take in the sounds and smells of spring. The birds and the frogs, the kids screaming and lawn mowers running, the flowers, the pollen and the manure on the air. A brief respite before the clouds return.
Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 3pm. Typical for today. South wind 9 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 62 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1962. There was a dusting of snow in 2020.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 61.4° from the due south horizon (-9.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:13 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (284°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (290°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:52 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 8:21 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:59 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 58 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 8pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 44 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 3rd. Southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2023, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1947.
As previously noted, next Saturday is 8:30 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:00 pm with dusk at 8:30 pm. On that day in 2023, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 60 and 45 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 68 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1944.
Cold mid-April morning 🌥️
Started out my day bright and early around 5 AM cooking up a big pan of veggies, eggs and some cornmeal with lots of turmeric and red chili peppers to ensure my nose still ran well. Did some reading, finishing up the e-book on green building I had form the library, continuing that e-book on sustainable farming and java programming.
Good morning! Happy Saturday. Another shit weather weekend. 💩 That’s how I feel about this weekend’s forecast, now that the windows are closed in my apartment. 🪟 I like the fresh air, the lack of it makes me a bit cranky. Mostly cloudy with a few hints of sun, 🌥️ and 48 degrees in Delmar. Much colder then yesterday, and certainly quite a bit below normal. There is a south-southwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 10 pm.
One of the first things on my agenda 🔧 is to perform the usual adjustments on my bike 🚲️ to keep the gears working well. I also want to do scrub down some of the walls in my apartment and floor as the floors were soaked yesterday after all the rain and wet weather we’ve been having lately. 🌧️ I could smell the mold starting to grow once again. This place is such a run down dump, 🏚️ but let’s be honest, I kind of like it as it is. That said, I do like having the windows open. Fresh air is good.
Today will have a chance of showers. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 49 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 26th. Breezy, with a southwest wind 13 to 20 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 38 mph. S Chance of precipitation is 50%. Going to be a fairly cool day by mid-April standards. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had sunny skies. The high last year was 89 degrees, breaking the previously set record. But not today. 5.5 inches of snow fell back in 1950.❄
Thinking of heading out early for a ride out to Voorheesville 🚴♂️ before the wind picks up an things cloud up. I am actually happy to see a bit of blue sky 🌬️ but I know it’s not going to last with rain more likely later. I might then go down to the library. 📚️ They are renovating the unit next door now that my neighbor with the big garbage pile moved out. A bit noisy with all the construction going on. 👷♀️ New landlord seems to be pretty good at maintaining the yard so far and has been friendly. Rent is going up in June, but it’s not that much — $800 a month in these inflationary times isn’t bad. 🏘️ I’m kind of hoping for a new lease, so I can stay another year while I continue to evaluate my options.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 56.6° from the due south horizon (-14.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:58 pm with the sun in the west (277°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (284°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:36 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 8:04 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (256°) at an altitude of 57° from the horizon, 240,404 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:40 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 46 degrees. Breezy, 22 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 46mph. Today will have 13 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.
Yesterday evening, did a nice bike ride out to Five Rivers. 🚴♂️ It was a nice evening, with the spring peepers 🐸 singing their songs and red-winged black birds chirping along. 🐦️ One of the cows was out loose on Meads Lane 🐮 . It was a pleasant evening, came home and read for a while, 📖 the headed off to bed.
Tonight will be cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy 🌃, with a low of 39 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 20th. Breezy, with a west wind 13 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. In 2023, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1973. More rain come Sunday.
I’m hoping next week to get out camping. 🏕️ It all depends on how things go weather wise, but it’s been a few weeks since I last spent a night in the wilderness. Thinking about the Green Mountains, maybe taking a three day weekend, but it depends on what roads are open. I could also do Rensslearville State Forest or maybe Madison County. Not sure, I need to think about it a bit more.
As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:21 pm. On that day in 2023, we had partly cloudy, patches of fog and temperatures between 62 and 40 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.
As they say, it’s a wash ☔
At least if you go outside this morning you’ll get washed. Needless to say I’m taking the early express downtown and walking laps on the Concourse before catching the shuttle to the suburbanite office with acres of parking.
Good morning! What day is it? A Rainy Day, of course. Rain and 40 degrees at the Stewart’s. 🌧️ There is a southeast breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 21 mph 💨💨💨. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Monday around 3 am. ☃️
So it’s back to walking 🚶 the Plaza for an hour before work. I wonder how many buckets they’ll have out catching leaks from the roof. Even a two billion dollar building leaks. Still beats walking in the rain. Eggs 🥚 for breakfast with sweet onions 🧅 and Chipotle spices. I hear bird flu is back 🐥 so my favorite source of cheap healthy quick to cook protein is going up in price, like everything in this world today. Paying back for the good times of the pandemic.
Today will rain. 🌧 High of 40 degrees at 7am. 13 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 2nd. East wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 63 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1981. 11.0 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄
The salmon was good last night 🐟, haven’t had that in a while. It’s good to have some more omega 3s. Not as easy to cook as canned sardines or tuna but it’s good to mix thlngs up. That second loaf 🍞 of bread I made up on Sunday night was exceptionally tasty. Read 📖 for a while and went to bed 🛏 around 8 pm. Just working my way through another week. 👣 One step at a time. I wish it wasn’t raining so I could ride to work more of the week.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 52.9° from the due south horizon (-17.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:47 pm with the sun in the west (272°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (278°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:24 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:52 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:27 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 14 mph with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 12 hours and 54 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.
After filing my taxes 💰 I was reviewing them and realized that I had made a mistake again on my state forms and swapped a number and will overpay the state by $400. It’s fine, I budgeted $1,600 for taxes as I knew that’s what I would owe due to the dividends and interest due to the higher interest rates. Sucks but I did fairly well with the higher rates last year. So either the tax department will catch my mistake or I’ll file an admemded return later in the year to get my money back.
Tonight will rain, snow, and sleet before 4am, then rain between 4am and 5am, then rain and snow after 5am. 🌧️ Low of 35 degrees at 10pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Northeast wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2023, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 45 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1954.
I was tracing out some code at work yesterday , 🖥 it was just insane. If you were at a certain zip code on a certain street in Westchester, you raise flag 🚩 number 31. Then you shift several digits to a buffer and then other digits from another field and combine it with data from another buffer. It was absolutely insane but after studying it for a half hour I realized it was doing. But much like life, data is messy and often complicated to clean up. But goddammit, use comments in your source code to explain the madness. 🤬 The one upside is I am getting good at reading and writing C code. I might not be a programmer 🤓 but I’m putting my skills to good work.
Cool but with improving conditions this weekend. 🌤️Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Typical average high for the weekend is 55 degrees. Staying in town this weekend but who knows about future 🔮 weekends. I am thinking I might do the Green Mountains more this year as some ways it’s more convenient from my office. Also thinking about one more trip to the East Branch Sacandaga River before the black flies are out should it warm up this spring. 🌸
Looking ahead, next Wednesday is 8 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:33 pm. On that day in 2023, we had sunny and temperatures between 67 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 57 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1922.
Back from Grandma Moses Country 👵🏽🎨
You know it was worth an exploration, I tell myself even if it didn’t have the right feel for me. Pointed Rocks on the Batten Kill had been on my bucket list for a long time to hike – it’s a surprisingly long and steep hike outside of Adirondack and Catskill Park and the whole area around the Batten Kill is quite spectacular, full of birds and nature if not a pungent this time of year from the manuring. Shits gotta grow come the summer.
Good morning! Rain and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 4 am. ☃️
Honest, I wasn’t planning on going to Washington County yesterday 🏞 but I ended up that way after looking at some houses, properties and land in Hoosic, Pittstown and Valley Falls. Rural country out that way but it didn’t have the right feel in my mind. I totally get why that former Research Services director used to live out in White Creek but that’s a bit too far away from work especially having to drive through Troy and all those other little speed traps and hick towns. 🚓 Of course he did move to Pennsylvania as soon as he could retire.
I had wanted to hike Pointed Rocks and explore the area along the Batten Kill for some time now. 🚶 🏞️ but somehow I never got up that way as there isn’t any place right nearby to camp, except maybe for the Green Mountain National Forest on the other side of Bennington. Nice country up along the Batten Kill State Forest and along NY 313, but certainly too far from Albany too commute. 🚦🚙🚗🚚🛻 There was an interesting property along NY 22 that was 20 acres of moutainside and woods, with a steep creek for micro-hydro that looked quite attractive from the road and on paper, if not for all those damn traffic lights, hick towns and NY 7 traffic cluster. Had a nice little mobile-home sized site on a ledge over the road, with a somewhat steep driveway but partially cleared. I think it was a former hunting camp. 🏠️ Looked like the neighbors would have been good, they’re distance away, have horses and a small pre-fab house. Price was good, but it’s all about the location.
And I didn’t have the natural attraction to Grandma Moses country that I have to the Heldebergs, and I don’t know anybody who currently lives out that way. 👨🚒 I’m sure if I got involved in the community, maybe became a volunteer firefighter I could make friends, but it’s still tough. 
Plus, despite all the kitsch Grandma Moses Painting, that area of state is quite poor. 🐐 But I kind of like that, those are probably good friendly people who work hard, not yuppies.
Today will have showers likely, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy with some clearing later on 🌦, with a high of 51 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 29th. South wind 7 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1990. 4.1 inches of snow fell back in 1982.❄
The major plan for today is to go to the grocery store and get more groceries 🛒 fairly early on. I am as shocked as anyone that it’s already Sunday again and my pantry is fairly bare, although not as bad as some weeks in part because I stopped and got a few more things on the way home when driving in on Friday, as that was when I had my dentist appointment with that mean hygienist.🦷 I am not going to put up with her abuse, she was abusive in that dentist chair how she treated me. I am going to cancel my next appointment and see if I can reschedule with my usual dental hygentist Hamid.
I might head out to Coeymans to do some more poking around later on the back roads. 🛻 That said, I’ve checked out many of the listings, and I’m kind of tired after all the driving and exploring yesterday. Hell of it is because I decided to head up to Washington County to hike, 🚶 never made it down to southern Rensselaer County to explore some of the homes and properties around Lebanon Valley that are for sale. The thing is down there, you’re getting into the Taconics ⛰️ which are quite nice, but land prices go up there, and you start mixing with a lot NYC pukey-pukes down that way. Get south of the Berskshire Spur Thruway and there is some shit ton of NYC money that way, thanks to the Taconic Parkway. Not only is land is expensive, you know who is going to be living next door, people closer to Elliot Spitzer who is responsible for the burn ban, then some dirt-farming goat-rising good ol’ boy. 👛
Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 46.3° from the due south horizon (-24.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:28 pm with the sun in the west (263°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (269°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:05 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:32 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (172°) at an altitude of 75° from the horizon, 241,964 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:06 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 45 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.
Another work week ahead, 👨💼 back to being a professional rather then a cowboy-hat wearing good ol’ boy or so I play on the weekends. One more week until the long Easter Weekend when I’m hoping to get to the Adirondacks to camp 🏕️ and have a big ol’ fire 🔥 with flames mostly less then 3 feet high and not too much plastic, because you know the burn ban and stuff. 🤣 Ah, New York State. I should bring my .22 rifle and make some noise too while I’m up in the wilderness. It’s been too long since I’ve spent much time in the woods. 🌲
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 31 degrees at 5am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 30th. West wind around 8 mph. In 2023, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of -08 occurred back in 1900.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 7:30 pm with dusk at 7:57 pm. On that day in 2023, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 48 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 55 degrees. We hit a record high of 87 back in 2010.
