Good morning! Happy Saturday. A rainy start to the weekend! Rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌧️ Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear around 7 pm.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 73 at 1pm. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2018.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 56.5° from the due south horizon (-14.3° 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. Well, not today, it’s raining. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:58 pm with the sun in the west (277°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (283°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:36 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 8:03 pm, which is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (144°) at an altitude of 16° from the horizon, 239,276 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:40 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms ⛈️ and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 70 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 2am. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 59 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 26th. Maximum dew point of 71 at 6pm. West wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 57 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1982.

On this day in 1966, the Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco during a thunderstorm ⛈. After this, if you wanted to hear the beatles, you had to listen to them on vinyl records or AM radio.🎙️🥁🎸🎹 Their next album would be Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Club Heart band, and it would have a dramatically different sound then the Love, Love Me Do records.🔊📀

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:09 pm with dusk at 6:37 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 52 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1947.

Good evening! Partly clear and 72 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. 🌆The dew point is 59 degrees.

It was a nice walk 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers this evening 🐦 although I wish I had brought my binoculars and it didn’t get dark so early this time of year. Sat out back for a while but I’m tired 😴 and wanted to take my contacts out so I’m in bed. 🛏 Still a nice day out there and I prefer the walk out there to driving – somehow it just feels a lot farther away and more rural when you walk then drive.

I am continuing to research used bicycles 🚲 online, especially ones that are simple traditional bikes for commuting. Also started to look at good bike routes and how long it would take to bike to various places I like to visit locally. You don’t realize how far and quickly you can cover in an automobile 🚘 outside of the city. 🏙 But on the other hand, bikes are super fast for getting around urban areas when you consider the time it takes to park. 🅿 I do think I shouldn’t quit motoring 🏁 cold turkey 🦃 but should try to transition away from driving over the next year. Bicycling to get around town can be tricky with the snow and ice and the rusty chain and parts from the salt. Money 💵 is just always so tight these days and driving is expensive.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 61 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 13th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6am. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1982.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 83% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (156°) at an altitude of 20° from the horizon, some 236,328 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 February 24^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Tuesday, September 1. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 5:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:17 am in the east-northeast (76°) and last for 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:55 am with sun in the east (83°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 41 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Patchy fog before 9am. 🌧 High of 80 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 23rd. Maximum dew point of 71 at 1pm. 🏖️ South wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2018.

Tomorrow is going to be a stay home day. 🏡 I guess if it’s not rainy ☔ in the afternoon I might walk down to the Town Park but I don’t have big plans for the day at any rate. Sunday looks a whole lot better. I do want to read 📖 tomorrow and there may be some work stuff to do this weekend.

In four weeks on September 25 the sun will be setting in the west (269°) at 6:46 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 8 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 76 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 68 and 48 degrees. The record high of 91 degrees was set back in 2017.

Facebook suggested a bunch of new off-grid groups to follow 🏡 and they’re kind of interesting. I’m still following my saving and investments plan, but it’s just a matter of time. But truth be told I’m making good money at my job now 💰and the work is fun and interesting and varied from what it is. I like being able to visit my parents and travel while I’m still fairly young 🐮 before I own my off-grid property and are stuck there more settled down. But then I’ll have much less of a need to travel to the wilderness to get away. 🐺

I really do want to move back to a small town and own land, and it makes me jealous of those people who I know who have but maybe someday. 🐽 I know it’s all those North Idaho pig farmers I follow on the YouTube and the smell of silage 🌽 that is burned into my nostrils 👃🏻 after my week in the Finger Lakes.

And I can’t believe that Raymore and Flanigan is trying to sell me a sofa 🛋️ in the Podcast App I use nearly every time I open it. 🎧 With all the off grid and farm channels I follow do they really think 🤔 I’m going to be in the market for an expensive sofa. I heard moldy junk ones do burn really black in bonfires. 🔥 Maybe because I live in yuppie Delmar even though my heart ♥ is in the woods or maybe cow and corn country. But then again I’ve been seeing ads for boots after Googling the word boot-licker. 👢 I guess a boot-licker needs something to lick when they’re not sucking up. 👅

Looking ahead, Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 is in 1 week, September 11th 🇸 is in 2 weeks, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 3 weeks, Average High is 65 🍂 is in 5 weeks, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 2 months, Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 is in 11 weeks, Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ is in 13 weeks, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 3 months, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 14 weeks, Bake Cookies Day 🍪 is in 16 weeks, Christmas 🎅 is in 17 weeks, 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 4 months, New Years Day 2020 🎉 is in 18 weeks, Bubble Bath Day 🧼 is in 19 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 5 months and 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 22 weeks.

Oh, my birthday 🎂 is on a Friday. 😊 Might be fun if the pandemic is over but I have my doubts. Getting drunk at the bar during a pandemic 🍻 is probably a terrible idea and who knows how many of my favorite truly hole in the wall waterhole will survive the pandemic. At least I probably won’t have to work late that night. I do remember how I spent my 36th birthday but at least I got paid 💵 for it.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Final Friday of August, September starts Tuesday. Such an odd year. Next Friday is Labor Day Weekend Begins. 👨‍🏭 Get your cutting torch out. Partly cloudy and 63 degrees in the land of the Delmaritian. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. The skies will clear around 9 am.

Today will have patchy fog before 9am. Seems about right, the sun is breaking out now. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 78 degrees at 3pm. Typical for today. Maximum dew point of 63 at 8am. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1948.

I have that Zoom Meeting this morning at 10 am 🤳🏻 so I probably should shave and maybe shower 🚿 so I don’t look like the dirty hick that I am. 👨‍🌾 It’s a nice enough morning I’m tempted to drive down to the park 🏞 and do it there rather than the library. I think 🤔 it might be a more comfortable place to do it.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 56.9° from the due south horizon (-13.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:00 pm with the sun in the west (278°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (284°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:38 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 8:05 pm, which is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The days are rapidly getting shorter now. At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (157°) at an altitude of 20° from the horizon, 236,342 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:42 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 74 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 13 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 63 degrees at 3am. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 6am. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1982.

On this day in 1968, where the riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. 🐴 Hubert Humphrey would go on to be nominated president and say lots of silly quotes. The Yippees had some great protests ✌🏻✌🏿 and really put a bright public spotlight on some very valid concerns about the war. 💥

Tomorrow will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. 🌧 High of 78 degrees at 2pm. Typical for Tomorrow. Maximum dew point of 72 at 1pm. 🏖️ Muggy but wet so hardly beach weather. South wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2018.

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 72. 🌞Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Maximum dew point of 57 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

I am hoping in two weeks after the Labor Day Holiday 🍂 to get up north and camp in the Spectulator area for an extended weekend and work from the Spectulator Library if we have some nice weather. By then I think the crowds will have cleared out. I do think Labor Day Weekend will be crazy 🤪 so I’ll probably spend that weekend either at home or maybe hammock or tent camping at a state forest somewhere. Never been one for crowds but with the pandemic I’m shunning them even more. ⛺

I was reading 📖 more of that backyard pig 🐖farming group I’m a member of on Facebook. 🍊 Apparently a lot of pigs don’t like citrus and they can be quite picky eaters. 🍽️ You can’t feed a pig everything that is wet and won’t burn well in your burn barrel. 🔥 But most of that other stuff rots or chickens 🐔 will like it for a treat. Between using paper for bedding, feeding scraps and reusing plastic containers there is a lot one can do to reduce the amount of trash 🗑 going up in smoke 💭 on a homestead.

As previously noted, next Friday is Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 when the sun will be setting at 7:24 pm with dusk at 7:52 pm. On that day in 2019, we had thunderstorm and temperatures between 80 and 59 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1929.

Good evening! Cloudy, damp and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 60 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 9 am.

It was a pretty quiet day at work today, especially in the afternoon. 🤫 I worked from home all day and it rained a lot. I have a Zoom meeting tomorrow morning so I’ll probably drive down to there for a while. Watched some YouTube videos 📼I downloaded weeks ago after work and started to read but I couldn’t get into the book 📙 I got from the library. No big loss for sure.

That YouTube video on Justin Rhodes channel of the unassisted cattle birth 🐄 really is quite amazing video to watch 📺. I was also watching the Arms Family Homestead chase around pigs 🐽 that had gotten loose and NB88 chop down trees 🌲that were in risk of falling across his driveway 💥 during the winter. Yeah, I do watch videos sometimes but I don’t have commercials when I watch them at home 🏡 and I am sure most of commercial television is about glammer and not about shoveling poop 💩 or moving cows.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before 11pm. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 58 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 60 at 9pm. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1982.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 74% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the south (183°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, some 233,655 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. Plan appropriately with your Oldsmobile with its Rocket Engine 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by February 21^st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Tuesday, September 1. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 5:47 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:16 am in the east-northeast (76°) and last for 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:54 am with sun in the east (82°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 39 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 26th. Maximum dew point of 65 at 10am. Another warm muggy day then cool on Saturday. Southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming northwest in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1948.

In four weeks on September 24 the sun will be setting in the west (270°) at 6:48 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 2 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 73 and 56 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 69 and 48 degrees. The record high of 90 degrees was set back in 2017.

I remember that day well when I was at Moose River Plains.🍂It was a hot day but the leaves were all past peak at the higher elevation in the plains due to the cold snap earlier in that month. Very odd year for sure that September. No hurricanes at least. 🌀

Looking ahead, 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 is in 2 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 3 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is a month away, October 🎃 and Harvest Moon 🌕 is in 5 weeks, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 7 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 13 weeks, Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ is in 3 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 15 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 17 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 18 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 20 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 22 weeks, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 24 weeks, National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 25 weeks, and Snow Moon 🌕 is in 6 months.

Good morning! Happy Thursday. Two weeks to 6:30 Sunrise 🌇. Cloudy and 58 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Coming soon is the rain according to the radar. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 53 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around noontime.

Today will have showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 5pm. Some storms could be severe, with large hail and damaging winds. Mostly cloudy 🌩, with a high of 70 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 21st. Maximum dew point of 67 at 2pm. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1948.

It seems like I’ll stay home 🏡 most of today. I have a lot of projects going on for work and no Zoom Meetings. I think it will be too wet today for the morning walk 🚶🏻. That’s fine. I don’t have to go anywhere and it’s going to be quite wet at times although I’m not convinced all day will be a soaker with the radar.l

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 57.2° from the due south horizon (-13.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:01 pm with the sun in the west (278°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (284°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:39 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 8:06 pm, which is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (171°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 233,561 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:44 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 13 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 62 degrees at 4am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1982.

Today in 1859, Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well. 🛢 To this day, that town still smells like petroleum, and it floats in the creeks, but they produce much less oil today then at the peak around the turn of the century. Now most of barrels you see around Titusville are used by farm folk to incinerate their trash 🔥.

Saturday looks increasingly wet thanks to the remnants of the hurricane. 💦Saturday, showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 78. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. 🌀 Maximum dew point of 72 at 1pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 73. 🌞Maximum dew point of 58 at 7am. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

It looks like Saturday will be a good day to stay home and read 📖 while Sunday might be a good day for hiking and fishing 🎣. I am not planning on heading out of town next weekend but after Labor Day Weekend I might take a trip somewhere. I was hoping that the Piseco Powley Bridge would be open by then but it doesn’t seem likely with the bridge re-opening being pushed back. So for all intents and purposes I don’t see myself camping until September although honestly that’s next Monday.

Facebook keeps showing me auto 🚘 ads as I thumbed through some of them. But I’m so tired of owning a truck and I just think I could save a lot of money not owning a car and using a bicycle 🚲 to get around town. But I still have a little over a year to decide – I do wonder about the costs of not being able to buy in bulk at Walmart, not being able to haul my own garbage to the transfer station or even taking laundry to the laundromat. Motoring is such a big chunk of change 💵 for something you have to throw away – your car – every ten years or so.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 7:13 pm with dusk at 7:42 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 77 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1931.