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Quiet Above Austin Falls
One of the clearings along Old Route 8B where you can see the Sacandaga River, with I believe Rift Hill in the background. The river is wide and quiet down by where it meets up with Robb Creek.
Taken on Thursday July 23, 2020 at Jessup River Wild Forest.Flags At Camp
I had a whole bunch of flags hung up when I was camping at Perkins Clearing.
Taken on Friday June 5, 2020 at Delmar, New York.January 8, 2021 Morning
Good morning! Happy Bubble Bath Day ๐งผ ! Never was into the bubble bath, but I do like the bubbly potholers on a hot summer day. ๐ Three weeks to my 38th Birthday ๐ . 17 years until I will be 55. That said I’m not sure if I will stick around in Albany for another decade and a half. ๐ด So many things to do before then. Cloudy and 21 degrees in Delmar, NY. โ There is a north-northwest breeze at 7 mph. ๐. There is a inch of snow on the ground. โ ๏ธThings will start to thaw out at around 2 pm. ๐ก๏ธ
Kind of a cold and gray morning. ๐ฅ I am rather disappointed with the weather. Fewer dog ๐ถ walker to have to put the mask on for and step off the trail for on the era of THE COVID. Hopefully, we will have more sun later โ as I like looking at blue skies with the endless work zoom meetings of lately. โจ๏ธ Normally I mute ๐ myself but lately with too many Ferris Buehler moments I left the microphone on and then my typing got picked up and I got yelled at during the meeting. I just find the phone zoom app is incredibly hard to unmute I a hurry. So it’s back to staring out the window. โฌ
I think today will be a work from home day, ๐ that is after I go for my morning walk on this most cloudy start of day. โ Yesterday was so nice with all that sun to get the morning started, but that’s definitely not to be today. But hopefully it will get nicer once that high level front passes through. But I was hoping for seven days of blue skies in the morning, but that was not to be.We can have hopes for nice weather, but that rarely comes to be. But still I enjoy my morning walks. ๐ณ I had a good pan of eggs with a chopped up ham-steak, broccoli, cheese and lots of coffee โ so I should have plenty of energy for the day. ๐ค Slept well last night.
Today will be cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing โ , with a high of 34 degrees at 3pm. I am surprised how cloudy it out this morning. I thought the week was supposed to be a lot more sunny. Debbie downer I guess. Geos-East shows a row of clouds pushing through. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 11th. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly clear by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 2008. 8.3 inches of snow fell back in 1923.โ
Solar noon ๐ is at 12:03 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.2ยฐ from the due south horizon (-45.6ยฐ vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour ๐ starts at 3:55 pm with the sun in the southwest (232ยฐ). ๐ธ The sunset is in the west-southwest (240ยฐ) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:40 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 5:11 pm, which is one minute and 2 seconds later than yesterday. ๐ The best time to look at the stars is after 5:47 pm. At sunset, look for mostly sunny skies ๐ and temperatures around 32 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 14 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear ๐, with a low of 17 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 11th. Maximum wind chill around 14 at 3am; Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. In 2020, we had light snow in the evening, which tapered off and the skies become mostly clear and cold by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 13 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1968. But not 1968 cold, as it rarely gets that cold these days around here, but who knows with the polar vortex roaring around, although it seems unlikely to hit here in New York.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny ๐, with a high of 33 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 6th. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly clear by afternoon. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 2008. 9.9 inches of snow fell back in 1953.โ
I haven’t decided yet for sure but I might just walk ๐ถ๐ป out to Five Rivers tomorrow ๐ฆ to watch the birds rather than driving anywhere. ๐ I just washed my truck yesterday and I don’t want to get it dirty plus the fuel tank โฝ is getting low and I don’t want to have to get gas until next week and I’ll save money ๐ต by not visiting Aldi for even more groceries. Although I do also want to explore the Van Dyke Preserve which is near Meade’s Farm Road — never been there before, and it’s a short walk from the house. Maybe I’ll hike to the Van Dyke Preserve then out to Five Rivers. That will give me a full day of hiking and keep me busy if the weather is decent. I never trust the forecast these days.
Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 34. ๐Northwest wind around 7 mph. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.
I am thinking Sunday I will go for a walk ๐ถ๐ปaround the Holt Preserve. Been a while since I was last there, and I don’t want to drive too far this weekend. ๐ Close to home and it’s an easy drive out there without too many back roads to get my truck dirty with.
Finally got to the bank yesterday, ๐ฆ and got the stack of checks I had been hoarding into the bank. I’ve gotten good at driving my big jacked up truck to the ATM. ๐ง There was a big line at the bank drive through as all the interior banking facilities are closed due to the COVID, and I had trouble making the turn to get to the ATM but eventually traffic moved ahead, and with a little jumping of the curb with the back wheel of Big Red and some careful negotiation of the drive through, I made it there safely.
I wasn’t going to do the IRA thing this year in favor of a Roth, ๐ต but after looking at my tax situation, I’ll probably do some of a regular IRA for part of $6k. If I do move to a low tax state in my later years for my homestead it won’t be that big of a deal, and if I have my own land, I’ll probably not be spending that much money on any particular year so my income will be lower. Then when I max out the IRA, I’ll just do the CD or investment account. Should do the trick. And I’ll keep looking at properties in rural Missouri and Neberaska to tease myself in thinking about a better tomorrow.
I also got a bunch of groceries, ๐๏ธ and cleaning supplies. ๐งฝ I bought this big bottle of ammonium – lemon cleaning solution and it stunk to high hell, ๐ฆจ but it did a good job cleaning the kitchen and bathroom. At first I thought I thought there had been a mixture of some of the old residual chemicals and the ammonium producing noxious chloramine but no, it just was a lot more pungent ๐ then the other knock-off Pine Sol I normally get. The stink quickly dissipated though, and it was very effective at cleaning the floors and countertops. I am trying to spend a few hours year week cleaning to keep things a bit nicer around here. โ Probably toxic as hell but so be it. We live in a world of chemicals.
I haven’t seen any mice since the mouse I caught yesterday, ๐ so that’s a good thing. I thought this would be a mice free winter, and until January 6th, that was the case. Then that one made a riotest appearance. Despite the news from that hick town some 500 miles south of me, I thought Wednesday was a pretty quiet day except for that one mouse I caught. I also bought more peanut butter for traps or to use with lunch.
The peanut butter will be good for snacks.๐ช I got kind of a sweet tooth when I got that big bag of Christmas cookies at Aldi’s two weeks ago, but I normally don’t have cookies or sweets at home, but a glob of peanut butter along with the frozen fruit in the freezer should help make up for it. I don’t like to have cookies at home, as they’re not healthy and there are a expense I can’t afford with my budget being as tight as it these days. ๐ธ๐ญ I’ll eat cookies and drink beer and maybe even drag on something when I’m camping but I refuse to do any of those vices at home.
I’ve been using less data then expected, ๐ถ so come April if I’m still working from home, I’ll probably switch back to the 10 GB hotspot plan and then back to the old, cheaper phone plan once I’m back to work again downtown. Right now, things are working out good, just spending one afternoon a week at the library parking lot when it’s not to cold to get the big files I need for mapping or other purposes. The extra $20 a month (or $10 if i go back to 10 GB) is reasonable these days with no or little bus fares to pay working from home. But I think I’d prefer to work down at the library or the park when the weather is nice and not have to be watching every megabyte on the gauge. ๐ Then I’ll be just watching the watt-hour gauge and resetting the undervoltage relay when it clouds up too much.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until 38th Birthday ๐ when the sun will be setting at 5:05 pm with dusk at 5:35 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy skies ๐ฅ and temperatures between 35 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 54 back in 2002.
๐น๐ป๐ผOnly 71 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!๐น๐ป๐ผ Tomorrow marks ten weeks until calendar spring. But sometimes we get nicer weather before then but who knows. It varies a lot from year to year, with sometimes the worse blizzards in late March, although that time of the year with average highs in the 40s, snow doesn’t last long.
December 18, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy Bake Cookies Day ๐ช! A good cold snowy โ day for baking cookies. Next Friday is Christmas ๐ . Partly cloudy and 9 degrees in Delmar, NY. โ There is a north-northwest breeze at 7 mph. ๐. The current wind chill is -2. There are 21 inches of snow on the ground. โ ๏ธThings will start to thaw out at Sunday around noontime. ๐ก๏ธ
I am up early but it doesn’t seem likely I’ll be going for my morning walk โ, but I guess that’s okay as it’s cold outside. Hopefully by the evening. I can be cranky about the incompetence of town leaders but what can I do about it, a less than humble boy ๐ง๐ป from the sticks. Maybe I’ll ride my exercise bike ๐ฒ later and go for the walk around 5 pm, by when hopefully most of snow will be cleaned up.
Today will be mostly sunny ๐, with a high of 30 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal. North wind around 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1921. 17.0 inches of snow fell back in 1887.โ Seems small after yesterday’s snow storm.
Solar noon ๐ is at 11:53 am with sun having an altitude of 24ยฐ from the due south horizon (-46.8ยฐ vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour ๐ starts at 3:39 pm with the sun in the southwest (230ยฐ). ๐ธ The sunset is in the west-southwest (238ยฐ) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:25 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 26 seconds with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 23 seconds later than yesterday. ๐ At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter ๐ Moon in the south-southwest (199ยฐ) at an altitude of 27ยฐ from the horizon, 241,320 miles away. ๐ The best time to look at the stars is after 5:32 pm. At sunset, look for mostly sunny skies ๐ and temperatures around 27 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 10 seconds over today.
Tonight will be mostly clear ๐, with a low of 4 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -3 at 4am; Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. 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 6 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1973.
Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite ๐ฐ is launched today in 1958. Didn’t do much communicating compared to satellites today. A decade or so before the first GPS satellites. ๐ซ Of course it’s hard to imagine a modern economy today without satellite data or GPS technology to provide both timing and location data.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny ๐, with a high of 30 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal. Light and variable wind becoming south around 5 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 18 degrees. The record high of 54 was set in 1895. 7.8 inches of snow fell back in 2008.โ
I am thinking about going skiing ๐ฟ at Schodack Island State Park tomorrow with the binoculars and look at the winter birds. ๐ Then maybe pick up some supplies at Aldi’s. ๐ I should try to get an early start tomorrow while the sun is still shining.
Looking ahead to Sunday, a slight chance of snow showers before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of snow showers after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. โ Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees.
As previously noted, next Friday is Christmas ๐ when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:59 pm. At least we are getting more sunshine in the afternoon. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 39 and 20 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1889.
Not sure if I’m getting up to the Adirondacks next weekend. ๐ I want to but I’m not sure if that’s a realistic goal with the weather. Maybe Christmas Day through Sunday. But it’s going to be real cold. โ I don’t know.
November 8, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy Sunday. Four weeks to First Sunday of Advent โ๏ธ. Sunny and 45 degrees at the Stoney Pond State Forest. ๐ There is a west breeze at 6 mph. ๐. Mist is evaporating off the land, going to feel more like summer than late summer later. The sun feels quite warm.
Camp is all taken down โบ and I’m sitting down by Stoney Pond. In a little bit I’m going to head to Bouckville and hike some of the canal trail before heading home. The pond is very still but with a lot of people up this way, there isn’t really the solitude I would hope for. I don’t like hearing a bunch of voices in the woods. Usually it’s quiet ๐คซ up here in November but the weather is exceptionally nice.
Today will be sunny ๐, with a high of 68 degrees at 2pm. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 27th. West wind 3 to 6 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1975. 1.7 inches of snow fell back in 1894.โ
Solar noon ๐ is at 11:47 am with sun having an altitude of 30.4ยฐ from the due south horizon (-40.1ยฐ vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour ๐ starts at 4:06 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (241ยฐ). ๐ธ The sunset is in the west-southwest (248ยฐ) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:48 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 9 seconds with dusk around 5:16 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds earlier than yesterday. ๐ The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies ๐ and temperatures around 67 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 25 seconds over yesterday.
After I head home, I’ll get unpacked and head out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. ๐ฒ At one level I wish I could extend the weekend but I have a busy Monday on tap at work and I might end up having to go downtown. ๐ข With winter coming, I expect things to return more back to normal but I’m also aware that spring will always return again ๐ผ that is after a long harsh winter. โ
Tonight will be clear ๐, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 27th. Southwest wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of 11 occurred back in 1971.
I will miss Madison County ๐ฎ and the farm country but while things may continue to change its going to be here much like it was a decade ago when I was here. I might not like everything I see in our country and our state but it’s good to get away. ๐บ๐ธ I might not agree with everything happening in this world ๐ but I’m mostly focused on improving my own life and not changing things beyond my control.
Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until First Sunday of Advent โ๏ธ when the sun will be setting at 4:28 pm with dusk at 5:00 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow showers, cloudy skies and temperatures between 34 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 39 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 2001.