Good morning! Happy Tuesday. A four day work week after a four day Labor Day Weekend well at least for me. School is back tomorrow. 🚸 I expect long traffic delays tomorrow, especially on the evening commute and later running buses in the morning. 🚍 Although honestly, Interstate 787 hasn’t been so backed up since they changed the traffic light timing. Two weeks to Constitution Day 📜.

Otherwise despite being September expect an almost summer like day. Partly cloudy and 62 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. Pretty much what you would expect for early September which should dry up yesterday’s rain.

Today will have patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 1pm. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was very sticky. The high last year was 94 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953. Last recorded high above 100 in Albany.

Being that I was out Friday I expect a busy day at work. 💼 But I’ll get caught up on things. I uploaded some new maps for the blog but I’m not sure when I’ll have time to post them. 🌐 Maybe I’ll go down to the library after work to do that. 📚

The sun will set at 7:26 pm with dusk around 7:54 pm, which is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 59 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 63 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 6am. South wind 6 to 10 mph. In 2018, we had rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1946.

Cool but sunny early September weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Maximum dew point of 53 at 4pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6am. Summer has called it quits early this year. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees.

I was reading more about the logging capacity Renology MPPT solar controllers ⬜ and the logging library that they have for using with Linux and the Raspberry Pi.🔣 I’ve been talking about building a smart relay between the starting battery and accessory batteries in my truck – the solar controller could be a good source of information to feed into it. 🔌 Plus a simple text based interface probably would be the best way to get information as I don’t have room on my phone for any more apps. 📱

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Constitution Day 📜 when the sun will be setting at 7:01 pm with dusk at 7:29 pm. On that day in 2018, we had humid, mostly sunny, warm, mist and temperatures between 82 and 67 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 72 degrees. We hit a record high of 89 back in 1942.

It looks like my autumn road trip will be starting in about a month 🚙on October 5th. The first day I will drive down to Tonawanda Penna and camp overnight then head down to Cannan Heights West Virginia via Interstate 99 and US 220 and another connector road to Corridor H. I may sped a good portion of my week there this year, as I like it down there.

Good morning! Happy Labor Day 👨‍🏭! Kind of a rainy, wet Labor Day although things seem to be improving. I made some coffee up ☕ and are finishing taking down my campsite. I took down the flags last night and my truck cap stayed pretty dry last night despite the intense rain we had for a while. 💦 This campsite is well drained so the rain wasn’t really an issue.

This Labor Day morning is cloudy, damp and 57 degrees at the Perkins Clearing Easement. ☁ There is a south breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 57 degrees. Not going to be a real nice day but it looks like the rain has let up and the skies will clear around 7 pm.

Labor Day will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 5pm. 🌦 High of 64 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 2nd. Maximum dew point of 61 at 2pm. 🏖️ South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of Perkins Clearingprecipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became sticky as the day progressed. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.

The sun will set at 7:31 pm with dusk around 8:00 pm, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 58 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 52 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 14th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6pm. West wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 73 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1976.

So Labor Day Weekend has come and gone. Well at least the camping ⛺ part of it once I finish taking down camp. I am in no rush at any rate. I might go for a walk 🚶 at the Speculator River Walk before heading home 🏡 but then I’ll be home. Four weeks from now I’ll be West Virginia, 👍as I’m doing my road trip a week earlier this year as usually the colors are done by Columbus Day Weekend in the high country and because I’m house sitting as my parents house the following week. 🐶

The camp stove continues to work well with both burners ♨ and I’ll replace the broken chair 🚮before the next time I camp. 💺Need to get propane, especially now that I know they don’t sell it at Tractor Supply 🚜 in Amsterdam. That said, there were plenty of other places that sold propane, but I skipped it and I made out okay, although I’ll need it for the next trip.

I could have gotten propane at Frank’s Gun Store on the way up here but I’d probably end up buying yet another gun 🔫 and honestly I need to save some money as my car insurance is due at the end of the month. 💵 I thought about switching insurers but I’ll probably just drop off my insurance reduction certificate from the class to State Farm. I like the coverage and rates of Progressive but it’s a pain figuring out all the details of the switch. 🔎 The difference in price for equivalent plans isn’t that great.

Probably cheaper to get propane at Tractor Supply, it’s a loss leader for them to sell more cowboy hats 🎩 and in my case more Carhart shit that I just got to have. But self restraint is possible in hopes of a better life tomorrow in a freer state. ✅ Gotta have the AR-15 to ventilate that garbage burning barrel, when you live out in the sticks in a red state. How else are you going to have fun putting holes in your barrel?🛢🔫

Changing topics, I need to get a better shovel. It’s hard digging through the roots to bury the poop at the end of the camping trip. 💩 A troel works but it’s hard work. While the bucket shitter means I’m only digging one hole, I like digging a deep hole because I hate finding toilet paper flowers in the woods. I guess I should separate out the toilet paper and burn it but as long as it’s buried deep enough with the bacteria from the poop it should rot away quickly. I bet the local hardware store would sell a small spade ♤ for such purposes.

Cool next weekend with temperatures running 15 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 63. Maximum dew point of 49 at 12pm. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 59. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees. Probably won’t be so cool back in Albany but hardly swimming weather at any rate. I might hunt next weekend 🐀 at a local state forest 🌲 but I doubt I’ll head out of town for a few more weeks. I like traveling but becomes a lot of work after a while and there is a lot of things I could be doing closer to home. 🐢

Plus all that beer drinking 🍻 around the campfire 🔥 probably ain’t that healthy for me or my finances. I returned 107 beer cans from camp to Shoprite the other day. ♻ It’s all from camping because I don’t drink at home. I don’t always eat the healthiest crap up at camp and maybe have a smoke from time to time. 🍴 Camping is fun but maybe too much fun at times.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Columbus Day 🛥️ when the sun will be setting at 6:27 pm with dusk at 6:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had cloudy, mist and temperatures between 72 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 63 degrees. We hit a record high of 89 back in 1963.