Good morning! Happy Thursday. Sunny, muggy and 69 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ There is a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 4 am. 😓

I thought 💭 about a morning walk 🚶 but it didn’t happen. I like listening to music 🎶 while I walk but with my phone on my last legs 📱 that wasn’t going to happen. Plus on muggy days like today, wearing a mask 😷 is no fun while walking.

Another hot day is on tap. 😰 But it’s expected to get better for Friday when that cold front pushed through. I plan to start my day working from home and then I’ll probably go to the library and work from there. 📚 I have some more books that I’ve ordered to pick up. 📖 Trying to do more summer reading. Maybe if it doesn’t thunder ⚡ this evening I’ll spend some time reading down at the park ⛲.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 4pm and 5pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 84 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 9am. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was sticky. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1933.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:03 pm with sun having an altitude of 65.7° from the due south horizon (-5.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:38 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (290°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (296°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:19 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 8:49 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (163°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 232,481 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:31 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 63 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 31 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 7 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 61 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 2nd. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2019, we had thunderstorm in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1978.

I need to schedule an oil change today for next week, 🔧 and seriously look at getting a new phone. 📱 My phone isn’t charging well any more and its often slow due to a lack of memory. 💾 I hate to throw away something that is still working but I’m afraid my phone is going to die some day and I’d be left stranded. I’d rather have something that works well as with remote work 📶 I’m very dependent on my phone. 📞

Saturday looks nice but hot, Sunday rainy. ☀ Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 86. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Sunday, a chance of showers after 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. ☁ Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 68 at 12pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday, back to work from Speculator. Partly sunny and 59 degrees in Speculator, NY. There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃.

By working up here I could stay another day in the Adirondacks and if I camp overnight, ⛺ I’ll drive home Wednesday evening about when the weather gets more stormy. I’ve been off the internet all weekend as I had no service which is nice for a change, it’s good to be away from work and everything else. 💼 With the primaries and everything else going on it seems like most of weekends previously were quite busy.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 77 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 1st. Maximum dew point of 59 at 8am. West wind 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 101 was set in 1930.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:05 pm with sun having an altitude of 66.9° from the due south horizon (-3.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:50 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (293°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (300°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:32 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 9:05 pm, which is 52 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (293°) at an altitude of 5° from the horizon, 232,588 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:49 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 54 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 58 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 8pm. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1970.

It was a nice long weekend camping at Piseco Powley Road, at times quite nice but for a while Sunday evening when the wind died down it was rather muggy. 😰 But when the breeze picked up it was pretty cold nice. Rained from a thunderstorm late Sunday night. ⚡ I’ve enjoyed being off the grid, having no cell service 📱 or ability to take calls all of the long weekend. I’ll upload some pictures later in the day. 📷

Saturday I walked the closed portion of Piseco Powley Road. 🚧 The south bridge is damaged from the October 31st storm and repairs will be necessary for Stratford to fix the other sections. That said, beyond the substructure of the bridge being rebuilt and some fill and a culvert needing replacing, most of the tools to rebuild the road shouldn’t be particularly difficult or unusual to implement.

On Saturday I also patched the hole in the screen tent. 🎪 It isn’t pretty as it doesn’t quite match in color and I wish I had had gotten the fabric a little tighter but it provides a good bug free area for camping. 🐜 Bugs have been bad this weekend, especially the deer fly although not so bad in the Potholers and times in the screen tent have been nice. After dark and early mornings I’ve been using the hammock a fair bit as the deer flies aren’t as bad then.

The Potholers were nice in the heat 🏊, I spent several hours laying in them and cooling off. I sat down there listening to podcasts 🎧and just enjoying the cold water 💦 and hot sun ☀. During the weekend there was a fair number of people there although I expect I would see a lot more were the road to be fully open. I am hopeful though that once the bridge is repaired, they can get the road repaired relatively quickly. I’m still thinking it might be done by hunting season. That will certainly make visiting the Potholers a lot more of an option come 2021.

Only one real shit moment at camp. 😮 On Monday evening after parking at camp I noticed something hanging out below the front axle like something was broken. Turned out to be just a root but I was afraid that I had broken something on my truck. Just a silly shadow of a root. Pulled it up and tossed it in the woods. This campsite is a bit of a mud wallow at the parking spot but has been as long as I’ve camped here. At least it’s very quiet here with the road closed heading south bound from the Potholers – the only traffic is those going down there.

I thought about moving down to Powley Place last evening so I could enjoy the stars ✨but ultimately I decided against that. It was fine, I was in by 9:30 and at that point wouldn’t have seen many stars. But I did stop by Powley Bridge briefly this morning to see the new temporary bridge and observe what has changed since the October 31st flood last year.

On this day in 1925, Dayton, Tennessee high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. 👮 Darn criminals ruining our country. The judge incorrectly set the fine, rather then letting the jury do it, so his conviction was overturned on appeal. 🏫 The law would remain on the books until it was repealed 1967. Also in 1983, the world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). ⛄ They should build a pipe and send it up north to cool off people efficently.

Been doing a lot of reading 📖 while up in camp. Re-read Heather Thomas’ Raising Beef Cattle 🐮 which is an interesting book on the ins and outs of cows. They’re pretty amazing animals which do pretty good most of the time on grasses, water, salt and some careful human hands to train them and take care of their needs. Beef cattle don’t have the complicated nutritional needs of the high performance Holstein cows 🐄 used on most dairies.

Should be a great weekend. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Maximum dew point of 59 at 8am. Sunday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 63 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

I haven’t decided if I will stay all week in the Adirondacks. 🗻 Only three nights until the weekend so I could get a campsite near Speculator and work up here to the weekend and then go back to Piseco Powley Road. I’m undecided though because working and camping can be kind of tiring, especially if I don’t get enough sleep. 😴

Looking ahead, there are 15 weeks until Election Day 2020 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:15 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny skies with a few rain showers and temperatures between 53 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. I was really sick that day last year with Lyme disease. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Cloudy and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 61 degrees. The skies will clear around 4 pm.

I was going to go for the morning walk, 🚶but by the time I trimmed my hair 💇 and took a shower and made breakfast, it was too late to walk and be home in time to clock in for work. So instead, I went for a short walk at the Swift Nature Preserve 🐦 down the street. Not a lot of wildlife this morning, but I haven’t been to the preserve in a long time, even though it’s literally 200 feet away from my home. I should go for strolls in there more often. It’s kind of a neat pocket preserve, where some times you can see a lot of birds and frogs.🐸

It looks like today is going to be a hot day. 😰 But maybe the clouds will keep it a bit cooler. I’m hoping it will remain cloudy with showers to keep the heat and humidity from being too oppressive. I plan to work down at the library this morning, 📚 as the internet is faster there and I don’t have to worry about using too much bandwidth down there. 📶 Hopefully it won’t be too hot, although the fan helps. ☢️

Today will be scattered showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 82 degrees at 5pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 27th. Maximum dew point of 70 at 2pm. Muggers rejoice! I hate when the dew point is that hot. South wind 8 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was very sticky. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1900.

I still need to get packed and ready for camping.🏕 I have literally done nothing yet. I’ve just been so tired lately. It’s largely my fault for staying up too late lately, but last night I get to bed at a more reasonable hour. I just go to stay off Facebook and force myself to get to bed earlier. 🛏️ I do wonder if I’m having lyme diease symptoms again. 🐜 Been feeling achy today with the weather.  💪 I am thinking about actually leaving tomorrow morning early.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.5° from the due south horizon (-2.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:49 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (293°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (300°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:31 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 9:03 pm, which is 43 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 69 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 36 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 66 degrees at 4am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 6pm. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 70 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1939.

On this day in 1944, Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320. 💥Also on this day, another deadly tragety. In 1981, A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny and hot 🌞, with a high of 91 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 11am. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was very sticky. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.

Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny and hot, ☀with a high near 96. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph. Maximum dew point of 69 at 9pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

I definately want to get north this weekend. ⛺ And probably for the foreseeable future — in other words until at least Wednesday, but it’s just a matter of getting the energy to get ready and off for another trip. Maybe if I get packed and leave bright and early tomorrow — maybe at 5 or 6 AM, I can have all of tomorrow to get set up, drink beer🍺 and hang out at the potholers. Money is tight once again 💸 but I should enjoy summer before it’s gone for good. 🏖