Good morning! Happy Flower Moon 🌕! Been so cold fewer flowers 🌷 then normal this time of year but still quite nice. Sunny and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. A beautiful morning. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around morning. ☃️

Beautiful morning. ☺. Started my day with a nice walk 🚶 around the super block and then I’m planning to work outside most of the day. 💼 Maybe go down to the library books 📚 where I can work with the faster internet and upload new stuff to the site blog. 🌸

Feeling quite well now 💊 with the doxycycline doing its magic. Aches and soreness in my legs are mostly home not as tired 😴. Lyme disease sucks. Heck even my phone 📱 autocomplete knows that now. I was told that the reason I was so much more tired and sick from the doxycycline this time was the Lyme disease infection was recent and the disease was much more of a fight. Pretty good now but still a bit sore.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 27th. Light northwest wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. 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 92 was set in 1930. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

I’m thinking about going down to the Pepscanne Preserve 🐦 this afternoon if the weather is nice. I really enjoy seeing all the birds down there and sitting out by the river especially on such a beautiful day. Then get groceries at Aldi’s and gas. ⛽

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.4° from the due south horizon (-6.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:23 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (288°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (294°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:03 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 10 seconds with dusk around 8:34 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:14 pm. At sunset, look for out for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, then gradual clearing toward daybreak 🌧, with a low of 36 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 12th. West wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1968.

Mothers Day Weekend looks cold but Sunday might be slightly better. 😏 Saturday, a chance of snow before 8am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 8am and 10am, then a chance of rain showers after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees. Saturday is definitely a stay home day. 🏡 The internet will be happy 😊. Sunday maybe I can see if I can get another tick bite at Partridge Run? 👀Or not.

One month 📅 from now will be Strawberry Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:05 pm. The average high temperature is 32 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895.

Good evening! Cloudy and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 am. Not a half bad night, I went out for my evening walk. Honestly, though I do wish I had done more walking but it was kind of a cloudy and gray day. Plus I had some work come in at the end of the day, so I never made it out to Five Rivers like I thought about going out earlier in the day.

Kind of a rather quiet day although work was modestly busy. 💼 I ended up spending quite a bit of the morning at the library parking lot, doing work and then working on several blog posts. Then I came home and worked on a few other little projects, going through a lot of old digital elevation model data I downloaded some time ago. Honestly I am feeling a lot better on the doxycycline but still awful tired. I’m hoping by tomorrow things really start to kick in. Already I’m not so sore. I do hate ticks.

Tonight will have isolated showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 21st. Northwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1874.

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon with 99% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the southeast (136°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, some 227,867 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 October 26^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:12 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:44 am in the east-northeast (66°) and last for 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 14 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:23 am with sun in the east-northeast (73°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 39 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 21 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 24th. Light northwest wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1930. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

In four weeks on June 3 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (302°) at 8:28 pm,🌄 which is 26 minutes and 49 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 65 and 44 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 75 and 53 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1925.

So yes, June is just around the corner.🏖 It is coming so quickly with everything is PAUSE. I am not expecting the swimming pools to be open this summer, although I expect the potholers to be cool and water in the various swimming holes to be quite refreshing. I do worry that it might be a bit hot working this summer from home, so I’m hoping at least my air conditioned office downtown will be open. I’m not interested in getting air conditioning at home, just like I refuse to have Internet at home.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 7 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 37 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 16 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Mostly cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. ☁

Today will have isolated showers after 3pm. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 59 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 17th. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1930. There was a dusting of snow in 1994.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.1° from the due south horizon (-6.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:22 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (287°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (294°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:02 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 9 seconds with dusk around 8:32 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (118°) at an altitude of 12° from the horizon, 227,783 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:12 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 14 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 21 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be scattered showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. Light northwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1874.

Weekend looks pretty cold but Sunday will be sunny. ☀ Saturday, a chance of snow before 8am, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 53. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 85 and 56 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.

Good evening! Mostly clear and 48 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. It’s a pretty nice evening out, I sat out back for a while but soon I’ll retire to bed. Fairly nice evening.

Well I think despite my doctor’s doubts 😷 I have Lyme and the doxycycline is working well now that I finally started taking it. The soreness and stiffness is gone from legs. While it was never totally debilitating and I kept walking and hiking 🚶 I had the fear of not being able to climb the stairs in my apartment because the Lyme really was making me stiff at times. But that is already gone. But the doxycycline really hit me hard this time – all day I thought I’d need tooth picks to remain awake through five o’clock. Fairly slow day at work, had a project come in and phone call 📞 to make in the afternoon but I made it to five. It also made me feel like I needed to puke half the morning.

Between my before work and evening walk 🚶 today I got five miles of walking in. Not too bad. I tried replacing the battery and testing my bathroom scale ⚠without much luck. I’m sure weighting myself everyday isn’t going to tell me much besides the fact I just drank a lot of water 💦 or more likely milk. 🐮 I don’t believe the doctors scale plus I was wearing my carhartt vest, steel toe boots 👢 and a rain coat.

Bought two gallons of milk at Stewart’s for the week, ironically standing behind a local dairy farmer at the store who was buying coffee ☕. Pre pandemic I’d buy a gallon and go like twice a week for the freshest milk 🐄 but I know they say you should avoid unnecessary trips to the store. 🏬 Next week is the big half gallon ice cream sale. Price has gone up 20 cents to $3.19 during the sale. I don’t normally buy ice cream these days but when the sale is going on I’ll have to spring for a half gallon. 🍧🍨🍦Too bad it’s going to be mad cold next week.

I am thought about going out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center or maybe Schodack Island State Park after work ⛲ but I was pretty tired from the doxycycline and was worried about falling asleep driving 🚘. I don’t need groceries right away at any rate. I feel so much less stiff but keeping my eyes 👀 open all day has been a challenge.

Tonight will have patchy frost after 1am. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 97% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southeast (131°) at an altitude of 28° from the horizon, some 226,726 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 October 24^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:14 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:45 am in the east-northeast (67°) and last for 3 minutes and 9 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 17 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:25 am with sun in the east-northeast (73°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 42 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. More sun than I expected. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1930. There was a dusting of snow in 1994.❄

Tomorrow I may drive down to the library 📚 to upload maps 🌏 and reply back to the numerous emails 📧 I’ve gotten related to people’s questions about state lands. 🌲🌳 At times I feel like I’m an unofficial ambassador to state land. I also should try to make my mind up on what screen house I want to buy for camping and just order it. 🎪 It will make long weekends in black fly season and summer vacation a lot more enjoyable.

With the state campgrounds closed Memorial Day Weekend I am pretty sue I’ll stay in town that weekend and maybe take the following Friday off for a long weekend at Piseco Powley Road and the potholers. ⛺ I can always make my own three day weekend, I have quite a bit of time in my time bank 🏦 at this point working from home as no need to clock out if I feel a bit sick or need to run a quick errand.

I bet in a few more weeks the cold will pass ❄ it will be so sultry out. I’m kind of hoping to be back working downtown by then because I don’t have air conditioning at home and it could be a bit sultry working out of my truck. 🚘 I guess there is always a fan and lots of water with ice cubes.

In four weeks on June 2 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (302°) at 8:27 pm,🌄 which is 27 minutes and 12 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 76 and 49 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 74 and 53 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1895.

Looking ahead, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is a month away, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 7 weeks, and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 26 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 17 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Happy Cinco de Mayo 🤠! No Corona beer for you. 🍻 I do got Lyme but not that kind of lime and fortunately no beer virus. 🍋 I do hope they have the real beer come nice summer nights camping as much as I hate returning those dirty glass bottles with the rotten fruit in them.

Mostly sunny and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 . Chilly start to the morning.

I went for a walk before work. 🚶 Pretty nice morning but I was feeling like I could puke after taking the doxycline on empty stomach as the container suggests. 💊 Doctor said I could eat a bit with the doxy but I’d rather it be more effective than less. Hopefully soon the Lyme symptoms will go away. I’m achy but I know if I don’t walk and keep moving the Lyme will only get worse. Only 14 days of low dose doxy this time so hopefully I will recover quickly. I so hate ticks.🐜

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 11th. Northwest wind 15 to 17 mph. A year ago, we had light rain through the day. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1900.❄

This afternoon I plan to go shopping I think it’s 🏬 and then also maybe for a walk at a local nature preserve. It all depends on how I feel later on and how cold today works out to be.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 63.8° from the due south horizon (-7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:21 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (287°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (294°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:01 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 9 seconds with dusk around 8:31 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌖 Moon in the southeast (125°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, 226,712 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:11 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 49 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 23 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have areas of frost after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌃, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1969.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, snow likely, possibly mixed with rain before 8am, then a chance of rain between 8am and noon, then a chance of rain showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

One month 📅 from now will be 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ with dusk at 9:04 pm.

Good evening! Partly clear and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. That breeze makes it’s a bit cold. After my evening walk 🚶 I came inside and are laying on my bed.

Fairly quiet day at work today 💼 so I brought my laptop to the laundromat and worked there. Got my wash and sheets done and then worked down at the library parking lot on my laptop. Got a bunch of videos and data for future blog projects and uploaded a bunch of content to the blog. 💻

Walking on my evening walk 🚍 I saw a CDTA bus. You don’t see so many of them now that they are running only the Saturday schedule and with so few people riding them. Seems so werid to see the buses now they it’s been eight weeks since the buses shut down except for the bare bones 💀schedule 🚏and working from home.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 33 degrees at 4am. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. Northwest wind around 10 mph. Cold night barely above freezing. My windows are closed. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1974.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 92% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (158°) at an altitude of 44° from the horizon, some 226,299 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 October 23^rd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:15 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:46 am in the east-northeast (67°) and last for 3 minutes and 9 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 17 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:26 am with sun in the east-northeast (74°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 44 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 11th. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1900.❄

Going to be cold but sunny tomorrow. ☀ It would be nice to work out back but I think it will be too cold. I do need to get milk 🐮 in the morning, I’ll probably buy two gallons so I’m good for the week. Next week is Stewart’s Half Gallon Ice Cream sale 🍨🍧🍦and I’m definitely looking forward. That said, I should probably cut back as lately I’ve been putting on weight. Despite my efforts to get out walking 🚶 it seems like I don’t get as much walking as I did when I was catching the bus 🚍 downtown.

In four weeks on June 1 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (302°) at 8:26 pm,🌄 which is 27 minutes and 32 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, thunderstorm and temperatures between 81 and 49 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 74 and 52 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1918.

Still chewing over my summer vacation plans ⛺ but with the pandemic much may change. I’m still thinking about Piseco Powley Road for a week if I can get a camping permit for the weekend week. In a campsite with a lot of sun for the solar ok my truck and the screen house for buggy and rainy days. And maybe a swimming 🏊 hole within walking distance.

Looking ahead, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 2 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 3 weeks, June 🍹 is in 4 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 7 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 18 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Happy 8 PM Sunset 🌇! Two weeks to Flower Moon 🌕. Partly sunny and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃.

It is a rather beautiful morning, ☀ I got out and got some fresh air before getting down to work this morning. Its going to be much colder this week so I figure enjoy it before it gets nastier out. ☁

Today will start out partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 9am. Clouds will push in by midday. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

Today in the afternoon I’m going to head to the laundromat 👚 and get my clothes washed while I work out in my truck. They have Wi-Fi there and it should be a decent enough day to work in my truck.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 63.5° from the due south horizon (-7.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:20 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (287°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (293°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:00 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 8 seconds with dusk around 8:30 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (132°) at an altitude of 36° from the horizon, 226,292 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:09 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 53 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 14 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear ☁, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1974.

Bitterly cold weekend on tap for March, I mean May. ❄ Saturday, a chance of rain and snow. Snow in May in Albany. Not just the outlying areas. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. I checked, it was colder in 1977. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

Needless to say I plan to stay in town this weekend ☀ but I might try to go somewhere close and do some hiking. 🚶 I want to figure out what kind of screen house I want to buy for camping as if I go north the following weekend I’m sure the bugs will be our full blast. Although I’m learning more towards Duck Pond in Schoharie County.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Flower Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:14 pm with dusk at 8:46 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 73 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 2017.