Good morning! Happy 5 PM Sunset 🌇 ! Next Monday is February 🌧 . Mostly sunny and 17 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️

Last night my apartment flooded again. Yet, another water heater melted down, starting to leak water out of the top again. Called the landlord, and he says he’s going to have the plumber install another heater tomorrow. 💦 This time for some reason the catch pan didn’t empty out the leak and it poured all over the floor of the closet, into my bedroom and through the living room ceiling downstairs, but so be it. Third water-heater this unit has gone through since I moved in December 2007. 🙄Kind of annoying, but it’s more my landlords problem then mine, bar the extra cleaning and mopping up of the wet dirty stuff from the melt down. It’s annoying that it’s one issue after another with the plumbing here, but at least he’s good at getting things fixed. 🚽 I wish he would just buy a good quality heater, so I wouldn’t be dealing with this issue every five years, especially when things flood. Last time they didn’t but I’m guessing the drain pan hose iced up in the cold.

To be fair, my apartment is quite affordable 🏘 as it’s been the same place I’ve been sent back in the day when I was making $27.5k at my first job out of college. Today, I make quite a bit more and my rent has not increased much over the years. Of course the fact that the landlord keeps having to replace the waterheater suggests at some point rent will be going up again. I like my apartment and it’s location, but I guess you get what you pay for these days. And it’s good that it gave me a long needed cleaning and straightening up my bedroom.🛏 Too often things just kind of got piled up around, things that I thought I might use some time in the future but probably should have long ago been chucked in the recycling bin or trash like old magazines. Dust doesn’t get cleaned off, books fall out of book shelves, you name it, it happens. 📚That’s kind of why I eventually want to own a tiny home, so if it’s not immediately being used and is kind of marginal in usefulness, it goes out to out the burn barrel for a very fiery form of disposal. 🔥

I was also having blog problems, ✍ due to a software update under Linux which seems to have broken the SSH connections everywhere on the system. I am looking into it further on my end but it only really effects a few things I use regularly, including syncing the website to local database. 🔄 The techs got part of it working again, but I’m still trying to figure out what I broke on my end. Not sure at all – I think either a certificate layer or broken protocol software. 🔢 When I get to the library later in the week, I’ll run apt and update the software, and hopefully that will fix things. I only don’t have synced things from the past few days.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 29 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees below normal. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became rain by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1938. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

It’s going to be a cold day today, but sunny. 🌞 While I did my evening walk, I skipped the morning walk as I was still cleaning up from yesterday’s mess. I really should done more to clean up earlier on – like get the old ripped clothing to the recycling center ♻ and put all my summer clothing away so I could put my winter clothing in the dresser, but it’s now done. I also cleaned up and organized the crawl space, because I wanted to make sure none of my other clothing or camping gear would be sitting in a puddle of water for the rest of the winter. 👕 It’s good though come the spring, it will be easier to get out the things I need.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.5° from the due south horizon (-42.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:18 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:00 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 13 seconds with dusk around 5:30 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌝 Moon in the east (88°) at an altitude of 37° from the horizon, 246,581 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:05 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 28 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 44 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 7 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 17 degrees at 3am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 11th. Calm wind. In 2020, we had light rain in the evening, which became light drizzle by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1920.

Sunny but cold Saturday, snow possible for Sunday. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 22. 🌞 Sunday, a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. ⛅Chance of precipitation is 30%. ❄ Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 54 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 I can’t wait until it’s warm enough to have the windows open and some fresh air. While that doesn’t happen all of the time in March, sometimes it can get fairly warm and nice. I am really looking forward to spending more nights in the woods. I can do winter camping, but I like it when the time changes and the weather is much nicer in the spring.

As previously noted, next Monday is February 🌧 when the sun will be setting at 5:09 pm with dusk at 5:38 pm. I am glad, this month seems like it has dragged on forever, and it’s been so controversial with so many angry people everywhere. Hopefully with a professional in the White House, the vaccine will roll out much more smoothly, and we can get back to normal life. 😃On that day in 2020, we had snow showers, cloudy, mild and temperatures between 40 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 65 back in 1989.

Good morning! Happy Saturday. A rainy Martin Luther King Jr. Day  Weekend! It could be snow, but it’s not. Just a very cold, sloppy rain-mix. Six weeks to Snow Moon 🌕 . Rain with a lot of slush and dirty-four degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ The kind of day farmers and outdoorsman everywhere dream of if they want to be up their waists slip-sliding in mud and shit. 💩 There is a northeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. There are 0.5 inches of sloppy ice and slush on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️ So you can be slip-sliding away and the roads can be caked with a shit-ton of salt.

I survived my trip down to the office, 🚌 and as far as I know I didn’t catch the CORONA or get assaulted by protestors downtown. ✊ Honestly, it was very quiet yesterday. I think I only saw one other person in office, no protestors and even the buses were empty. 🙌 I did wash my hands well after I got home. I do plan to stay socially distant from all the happenings in Albany this week, only interacting with it through my computer and phone for work purposes. I don’t want to touch any of that stuff with a 10 1/4 foot stick or whatever you call it.🍢 I’ll be quiet happy sitting at home, working on the computer from Delmar and looking out the window. 💻 Granted, remote work would be more fun from the Adirondacks but it’s cold up north and there isn’t a lot of places I can camp up there right now with cell service.

Today will snow before 10am, then rain and snow showers likely between 10am and 11am, then rain showers likely after 11am. 🌦 High of 38 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

So yes, today will be a cold and wet day. ☔ I mean it could be snow, although in many ways I would prefer that but at least the rain will wash the salt off the roads until tonight when it’s reapplied. I am going to continue exploring some LANDSTAT data and some other things and do some reading today.🌍 Then maybe do some cleaning downstairs and hopefully by evening it will nice enough for the evening walk.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.5° from the due south horizon (-44.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:05 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:19 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (215°) at an altitude of 29° from the horizon, 245,405 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:55 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 26 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before midnight, then a slight chance of snow showers between midnight and 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 31 degrees at 3am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 29th. West wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1971.

🌹🌻🌼Only 9 weeks remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 I can remember last weekend when it was 10 weeks. Each week is one week closer to spring and the black flies, the mud and tangy smell of cow shit in small towns everywhere. And trout fishing. Add about two months two that date, and the black flies will be out in full force and it will be Memorial Day Weekend or something like that. The windows will be open and fresh air.

As previously noted, next Saturday is National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 when the sun will be setting at 4:57 pm with dusk at 5:27 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 37 and 11 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. It’s supposed to be warming up at that point a little but I expect below normal temperatures’ in Biden’s America, at least to start out his term. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906. Wishful thinking.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Long weekend ahead but it’s Martin Luther King Jr weekend in the bleak of winter and it’s going to rain during the pandemic so don’t get so excited. Two weeks to my 38th Birthday 🎉 . Getting old you might say. Probably not wiser, but I haven’t burned my hand with dripping plastic in a few years. Maybe because I live in the city for now, less chance for making black smoke and injuries with fire.

Partly cloudy and 30 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ A little bit more sun right now for my talk then lately, but hardly a banner morning. But wait there is more — going to cold around my birthday but probably with more sun. Calm wind. So it make it feel fairly mild. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Honestly, right now a pretty nice morning for the walk 🚶🏻. Seeing the sun ☀ is refreshing not that is expected to last. But it is promising to return for late January and be cold ❄. I expect an absolutely frigid February like has been the norm but the strengthening sun angle means any extreme cold and snow 🌨 we get in late February won’t last.

Today will have patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 40 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1995. 13.4 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

Morning walk now, 🚶and later it’s off to head downtown for paperwork and a meeting. I am a bit hesitant with the Corona 👾 and riding the bus, but I’ll mask up. 😷 🚌 I was surprised to see from that graph I posted last night that 1 in 20 Albany County residents so far has had COVID — it’s really been popping up a lot the past two months, although some has to do with testing. At least Albany County is still not in the yellow or orange zone. 🚦 I really can’t complain about the weather. At any rate it’s nice to get out of the apartment — the morning and evening walks are great but working from home seems so trapping at times, especially when it’s cold and I can’t be outside or in the wilderness. ❄ No more of this working and camping outside of Speculator at least until the springtime.

Yesterday I got to the store and bought the world’s biggest box of Bisquick and cereal. 🥣I try to buy in bulk to reduce the amount of trash because I don’t like going to the transfer station as it costs money and living in the city means fewer opportunities to burn things. 🔥 No more free paper recycling. ♻ I think buying such a big box of Bisquick last time, and eating so many Bisquick biscuits like five years ago was why I stayed away from it. 🥞 I guess there is also Bisquick pancakes and other things on the package I can make to use it up. I also fueled up Big Red ⛽ because my tank was low, and I wanted to have fuel in case shit gets real next week 💣 and I need to evacuate. I don’t expect next week to be crazy, but there are some on the left who are sure it’s going to be nuts. 👊 Well I have my truck, and I’m working from home and I know plenty of places to hide out if necessary. 🚗 That said, I expect Inauguration Day to be boring, and I’ll watch it from home or maybe down at the library. 🖥 Really do need to cut down my bandwidth a bit to make it through the month. Too much streaming video, even though I have a so-called unlimited plan.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.3° from the due south horizon (-44.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:04 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:48 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:18 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (223°) at an altitude of 20° from the horizon, 242,654 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:54 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 39 seconds over yesterday.

I am watching the bandwidth I’ve been using with my phone 📱 over the past three weeks, and I think 🤔 I need to be careful about how much data I use. While I’m well below the 20 gb Hotspot limit I want to keep the unlimited mobile under the 60 gb for a month to avoid potentially triggering a teems of service review even if I think my usage is consistent, but I don’t have Wi-Fi at home and I use it for a lot of work video streaming and video meetings. 📹 But I really don’t need to watching hour long videos on my phone of manure drag lining as fascinating as that may be. 🐮 🚜 💩 I can always download those kind of videos at the library and watch them on my laptop.💻 I also don’t want to get to addicted to watching videos on my phone — one the pandemic is over or warmer weather comes back, I fully plan on going back to my cheaper phone plan without the hotspot or unlimited mobile data. I like walking down to the library or the park when I want to use the internet at night. Keeps me on a schedule, makes it so I’m not staying home all of the time.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow before 10pm, then rain. 🌧 Low of 36 degrees at 8pm. 22 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 11th. Southeast wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2020, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1971.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly before 1pm. 🌧 High of 41 degrees at 12pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 7th. East wind 9 to 14 mph becoming light and variable. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

Well I could have dreamed of getting up to the Adirondacks this weekend, 🏕 but I knew that was unlikely with the normally lousy weather that is the norm this time of year. It’s going to be kind of wet, but I downloaded several videos and I have books to read too. 📚 I really should do more reading. I am probably going to go out to the folks house on Monday, but I’ll see what it’s like. I would be nice to get out and some hiking — maybe Martin Luther King Day but it’s going to be cold.

Looking ahead to Sunday, isolated snow showers. 🌧 Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. Breezy, with a west wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 64 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Day by day spring is coming. Did you see my post about Rensselearville and trout season? It’s only like a few months away until April 1st, although truth be told, most of the good trout holes are located in places where I don’t have cell service which makes it bit hard to work on the laptop with a fishing pole in the opposite hand.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until my 38th Birthday 🎉 when the sun will be setting at 5:05 pm with dusk at 5:35 pm. Happy Birthday to Me. I am working from home so I won’t have to stay in the office or necessarily do anything special. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 35 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 54 back in 2002.

Good morning! Happy Saturday on this first weekend of the New Year! Twenty Twenty One. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ Tomorrow is week 1️⃣, officially. Hopefully a time of change, we will have a new president in 20. 🕴 Or well, maybe a throw back from the way-back machine. 👴 Normalcy this year with the vaccine? Adults in the White House? No more midnight crazy tweeting? I am glad I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts, and created new private ones for browsing only. Honest. No more inappropriate comments except my own on the blog. It feels good. Next Saturday is Static Electric Shock Day 🧼. Be careful when you are referenced to ground this time of year. ⚡ That dry air, walking over carpet can make some good shocks and make your hair look wild. 🤪 Not that you’d know with the pandemic and working from home. Rain and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There is two inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 7 pm. ☃️

While it looks like it was mostly snow up north, 🌨 I am thinking I am glad to be back home as it would have been kind of a cold and wet morning, and I enjoyed sleeping in my bed at home. The tent was fine but the ground was hard sleeping on a sheet of ice, below the ground tarp and layers of sleeping pads of course. But with the ice and snow, I’d probably be stuck up north, and I’m not sure how early it would clear out. Plus I enjoyed hiking back to Stewart Creek 🚶 yesterday, although that drone 🚁 was a bit odd to see fly over head when your in the wilderness. But I tell you, drone footage sure is cool. 📽 That said, I had fun on Campsite 7 on East Branch and I’m thinking I might do another winter camping trip, hopefully for multiple nights, should the weather cooperate later in the winter. The trick is to bring a shovel, park at Cod Pond, then dig out enough space on the driveway before carefully backing in. 🅿

Today will rain and sleet likely before 10am, then a chance of rain between 10am and 3pm. 🌧 Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 41 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 7th. Breezy, with a south wind 7 to 12 mph becoming west 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no sleet accumulation expected. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1890. 7.1 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

Today I am planning on going out to the folks house later. 👪 We are doing a socially-distanced fondue, which I know seems like a stretch but I guess it involves masks, 😷 a soup ladle 🥄 and sitting on opposite sides of the room. ↕ Or something like that. It’s not like any of us go out anymore anywhere, with everything shutting down. 🧀 And who knows, time is tight and limited. 👵 Tomorrow with the snow coming, I’ll stay home, well except maybe for the evening walk.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 24.5° from the due south horizon (-46.3° vs. 6/21). A long ways until summer but right now the transit is perfectly at noon. A six foot person will cast a 13.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:49 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:34 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 5:05 pm, which is 53 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:41 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 36 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 25. ☃️ Breezy, 21 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 36mph. Today will have 9 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 51 seconds over yesterday. It won’t be long before we gain a minute each day — lots in the evening, and even

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 23 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 8th. Maximum wind chill around 20 at 6am; Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light after midnight. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1970.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 when the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 30 and 13 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2008.