Good evening! Rain and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 61 degrees. First real summer night for sure. Long day at work, I ended up taking the nine o’clock home. 🏡

I really like how they have displayed the pride flag over the Capitol 🏳️‍🌈 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewell Rebellion. Certainly in some ways society has come so far in the past half century, even if in other parts like race relationships or even the rural urban divide we’ve made a lot less progress. Too much of society is about our own tribes and forcing our will over other tribes, too little is about mutual respect for diversity and people different than ourselves. Later in the week I want to bring in my high resolution camera and get a picture of the flag. It’s really a beautiful flag, especially when blue skies return.

Tonight will have showers likely before 11pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 11pm and 3am, then showers likely after 3am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌧 Low of 64 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 1am. 🏖️ Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1971.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 17% illuminated. The moon will rise at 8:24 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night. The Strawberry Moon 🌝 is on Sunday, June 16th. The sun will rise at 5:18 am with the first light at 4:43 am, which is 20 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 48 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 59 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly before 2pm. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing 🌦, with a high of 76 degrees at 5pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 7th. Pretty close to summer weather. Maximum dew point of 63 at 7am. Light and variable wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1925.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 78. Maximum dew point of 51 at 8am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 80. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees. Definitely going to try to maximize the weekend even if I’m not heading out of town to camp. Hopefully this nice weather will be back for a second round the following weekend.

In four weeks on July 3 the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm,🌄 which is 6 minutes and 55 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 94 and 74 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 102 degrees was set back in 1911.

Looking ahead, Last Day of Session 🏛 is in 2 weeks, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is a month away, Altamont Fair Opens 🎡 is in 10 weeks, State Fair Opens 🎡 is in 11 weeks, September 11th 🇸 is in 14 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 16 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 85 weeks.

Good morning! Talk about a beautiful Tuesday morning. Three weeks to Primary Day 🗳️. It will be summer by then. One of these days I’ll have to research the primary candidates. I kind of like voting for interesting people. 😂 If you’re going to vote ❎ for the grafter they should be at least colorful and fun. Like Mike Connors. Plus Independence Day is a month away. 🎇 I think soon they’ll be selling fountain fireworks and sparklers. Yeap, I need some to light off in the wilderness and disturb the peace.☮

We may lose and we may win
Though we will never be here again
So open up I’m climbin’ in

I heard the lady in the flat bed Ford was in her mid 70s at this point, hands calloused from years hauling slop buckets and working with heavy machinery on the farm. 🚜 I bet she packs too. 🔫 Probably if she’s in New Mexico she has solar on the house.

Sunny and 52 degrees at the CDTA Bus Stop #10595. 🌞 There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Still need to figure out how to get that temperature probe working in my apartment so I don’t really have an idea on the temperature at home. I’ll probably have to desolder things and test with a voltmeter. ⚡

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 2nd. West wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1919.

Heading in somewhat earlier than normal 🏢 because I have a project to do this morning. At least it’s a nice morning for a change, not too cold or rainy. And it’s amazing we haven’t had any super hot and humid days. 🔥 But I know those days are coming as are days at the Potholers. 🏊

The sun will set at 8:28 pm with dusk around 9:03 pm, which is 43 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 47 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 5 mph. Duck, I didn’t bring my umbrella ☔ by I might have one in the office for what’s it’s worth. Today will have 15 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 5 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly between 7pm and 11pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 53 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 50 at 4am. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1990.

I have narrowed down my list of camping hammocks 📃 to replace my torn one. They really are quite affordable and they do provide a lot of pleasure 😌 up at camp. Forty or fifty bucks doesn’t go that far anymore.  I want to finalize my decision by mid week so I have it for the following week should I go to either Piseco-Powley Road or Perkins Clearing. Probably the later as I need cell reception 📶 for work and there is no reception at Piseco-Powley Road or very spotty, although I might spend my day down in Little Falls should I go up to Piseco-Powley Road during the third weekend of June.

I’ve continued my search for USB rechargable flashlights on AliExpress and EBay. 🔦 Ideally I’d like something that I could plug directly into one of the many the USB ports on my truck for charging, 🔌 although I guess I could use a cable. A lot of them are based around the 18650 rechargable lithium ion battery that has the advantage that many chargers are available, and they are easy to swap in and out of the flashlights, although they make things more bulky. I just want something I can keep fully charged up at camp when I need them when things are dark, so it’s ready with bright light.

While I guess CDTA has had this for a while on their website, I noticed just yesterday if you go to their mobile website or website, they will show you the estimated position of buses along the line. 🚌 (Look for the bus icon along the stop) That’s a feature I’ve looking for for years, if only for a psychological benefit of having something to look at on my phone while I wait for the bus. Real time bus information is nice — with a minute delay, but I think I kind of prefer to see the estimated bus location. It’s not perfect as the buses only ping the bus service servers once a minute, and sometimes downtown the signal is blocked by the buildings.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Primary Day 🗳️ at least for us democrats locally when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 78 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1898.

Good evening! Clearing a bit with rain showers and a few rumbles of thunder around and 74 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 9 pm. A few fireflies around. Not a lot, they’ve been tardy with the cold spring. 🐝

We had some heavy rain for a while. I got caught out walking in the rain. ☔ But now it has stopped and I’m sitting out back. 🚶I bought some milk and ice cream and are now sitting out back as the rain has stopped. 🍨Happy Dairy Month! 🐮 It wasn’t that bad of a day but pretty busy. Lot of little things to get done.

Tonight will be scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then isolated showers between 2am and 5am. Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 61 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around July 3rd. Maximum dew point of 60 at 10pm. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1971.

Tonight will have a New Moon. The Strawberry Moon 🌝 is on Sunday, June 16th. The sun will rise at 5:19 am with the first light at 4:45 am, which is 28 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 52 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 14 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Some of the storms could produce small hail and gusty winds. 🌦 High of 77 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 10th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 12pm. 🏖️ South wind 8 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1895.

I accomplished everything I planned on doing today which was good. 👍 The big thing was buying the battery 🔋 and getting that hooked up, so I’ve doubled my storage for camping. The solar works well on the truck except during long cloudy periods and I’m producing enough power to really float the batteries relatively quickly. It was easy enough to tap into the bus bar although I had to exchange the first battery I got because I got the wrong size and when you get batteries to run in parallel you want the same size so they charge properly. But I got that battery returned and ended up having to go to Glenmont Walmart for the battery as only one in Albany was over a year old. The Glenmont store had a battery dated 6/19 so it must be pretty new. Granted a few things about set up isn’t perfect but I plan to experiment and with costs under $120 it’s not the end of the world. I’m continuing to learn a lot.

It was a nice walk 🚶 today at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve with lots of lupine around. It really was fields of purple. I didn’t spend a lot of time hiking there but enough to enjoy it. Didn’t see any Karner Blues unlike I did a few weeks back but I was hiking in a different location. 🌲

I tried warranting the hammock but because the rip wasn’t at seem they wouldn’t exchange it. The hammocks aren’t expensive so I’m going to try to get one online somewhere. They are a lot of fun and for under $50 are worth it. 😏 That said, it won’t be an LL Bean hammock as I don’t use that credit card 💳 anymore in favor of the cash back card I have with my bank. I don’t mind that much, that LL Bean hammock was shitty from the day I got it and with my rewards card only spent $4 and the hammock straps are still good.

Hooked up the outside temperature probe for my display, 📈 and used thin wires to sneak it out past the window screen so I can keep it hooked up with the windows closed. Unfortunately I can’t test it because I don’t have the necessary libraries to make it work. I’ll have to download them tomorrow. In the process I accidentally disconnected a wire and things stopped working but they are good now. It will be interesting to monitor the outside temperature especially as cooler weather approaches come the autumn.

Tomorrow I’m planning on going to over John Wolcott’s house 🏡 to keep going through his files. 📂 I found some interesting documents from the Erastus Corning Era. Then I’ll head over to my parents house for Sunday evening dinner. 🍗

In four weeks on June 29 the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm,🌄 which is 10 minutes and 29 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, mostly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 89 and 62 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 96 degrees was set back in 1944.

Looking ahead, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 3 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is a month away, Hottest Time of the Year 😅 is in 6 weeks, Ugly Truck Day 🚚 is in 7 weeks, August 🌻 is in 2 months, Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️ is in 12 weeks, Sunset Before 7:30 PM 🌆 is in 3 months, Average High 70 🎑 is in 16 weeks and October 🛥 is in 4 months.