Good evening! Snow and 22 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a south breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 11. At times there are some good gusts of wind. There is a four inches of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 8 am. 🌡️ Already warmed up enough that it’s very comfortable in my bedroom and the heat ain’t running non stop.

Decent little snow storm tonight ⛄, many years we’d call it a nuisance snow but this year has been so snow free except for that first big one in December its not been a very snowy winter. For a few weeks before Christmas we had some snow on the ground but recently in the city it’s been gone and based on the latest forecast it seems like it may very well be gone by the end of the week. Snow started around 2 pm here but didn’t make the roads noticeably bad until after 4 pm when I walked home from the library and had dinner.

I am definitely starting to get a cold or a bit of head congestion. 👃 I could feel it especially out walking 🚶 today at Kheler Preserve. I was going to just do Bennett Hill but I decided I hadn’t been on a walk on Wolf Hill in a while and it cleared out for a while so I wasn’t super concerned about having to drive the letter S or Cass Hill in the snow. It was definitely cold out hiking but manageable with gloves, jacket and a hoodie.

Breakfast with the parents at the local cafe was good but once again after eating there I had modestly bad diarrhea. 🍳 I don’t know if it’s from all the coffee ☕ I drank, the eggs or an ingredient in them but it always happens after going there. It’s kind of a hole in the wall place and the food is decent but it doesn’t do my stomach thing at all. And it’s not been a one time thing. My parents eat there all the time. I’d hate to blame the business but it doesn’t go well with my stomach. 👾 Fortunately I have zero regrets about taking a poop in the woods and wiping my ass with snow and leaves. 💩 Not sure if I’m going to go back to the dinner again though because I keep getting sick and it’s always awkward sitting there with your elderly parents while you wait for food to come out. Somehow Sunday dinner is different, out at their house your not sitting across from them waiting as they’re cooking or doing other tasks around the house 🏡.

Adjusted the exercise bike 🚲 to make the seats and handle bars higher so hopefully it will be easier on my knees. I was surprised that the bolts 🔩 are all metric, it’s my grandmother’s old exercise bike. Rode the bike for a bit watching some YouTube I downloaded. Burned off some of the calories from that game bih

I got the $10 bill in the mail from Nielsen Survey. ✉ Cool, real cash sent in the mail. I’ll stick it in my wallet. Now they’re trying to get me to do their week long TV 📺 survey and send back for another ten bucks. This one is paper in a business return envelope. I think I’ll do it, not hard as I don’t own a television or have internet at home. I can let them know that I watched a YouTube video I download 🐮 about milk quality testing and a science video about arsenic, oh and some true trash watching from Demolition Ranch shooting guns and Westin Champlain rebuilding a truck. Probably some of NB88 off grid cabin or Ohio Prepper before the week is up. Actually I’m not sure if I’m going to have to report that stuff I think it’s more cable television. Ten bucks, sure why not.

That said, I am trying to do more reading at home 📖, as I know it’s so much better for you and ones imagination then watching YouTube videos. Sure you can learn a lot from real people on the YouTube – I’ve learned a lot about trapping, hunting, butchering and off grid living even if not all of it is legal in New York. No snares in New York, only foothold or body gripping traps for example. 🔫 Reading is definitely something that I enjoy at camp by the fire or in the tent but admittedly I do less at home. Might do a lot more though at the park come spring time, especially when I get home each night at the 5:40 leaving a lot more evenings free to enjoy with a book at the park ⛲ – or I could even read just out back. I found five good books 📚 at the library that I took out and want to read all of them but it depends on how much time I have.

Tonight will snow, mainly before midnight. Temperature rising to around 31 by 3am. South wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -28 occurred back in 1971.

Tomorrow I want to do some cleaning up in the bathroom 🛁 and around the apartment. I also would like to get to the store and buy groceries after the snow stops, drop off paper 📄 for recycling ♻ and then possibly go skiing 🎿. Plus more reading 📖 and maybe some soldering I’m not sure the evening. Should actually be quite mild tomorrow but cold for Martin Luther King 👑 day. 💜

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent 🌒 Moon with 33% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:06 am, followed by dawn at 6:51 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:22 am in the east-southeast (118°) and last for 3 minutes and 17 seconds. Sunrise is 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:06 am with sun in the southeast (125°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 30 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 48 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow showers before 10am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 10am and 1pm, then a slight chance of snow showers after 1pm. Areas of blowing snow between 8am and noon. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 36 degrees at 11am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 19th. West wind 7 to 12 mph increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light snow. The high last year was 31 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1929. 8.5 inches of snow fell back in 1886.❄

In four weeks on February 15 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (253°) at 5:26 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 15 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, mild, rain showers and temperatures between 50 and 26 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 17 degrees. The record high of 55 degrees was set back in 2006.

Looking ahead, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 1 weeks, February 🌧 is in 2 weeks, National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is a month away, Average High is 50 🌸 is in 10 weeks, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 3 months, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 17 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 4 months, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 18 weeks, Last Day of Session 🏛 is in 22 weeks and Summer ️⛱️ is in 22 weeks.

Good morning! Happy Sunday. After the rain late last night it has cleared and is quite warm and sunny. Not expected to stay so warm though with the temperatures dropping all day long. Two weeks to 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆. I like coming home and the sun is still up. Partly sunny and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 The dew point is 53 degrees. It’s fun to be thinking about the dew point in January although I should close my windows before I go for my morning walk. 🚶 Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 8 pm. ☃️

Just got done baking the qeiche for breakfast. 🍳 Took a while to cook up but I was up by 6:30 as I no longer am sleeping in on weekends 😴 to try to maximize my time and improve health. I like watching the sun rise each morning I knew it would be a beautiful morning and so it turned out. It was so awesome waking up with the windows open.

Soon I’m going to walk the rail trail 🚈 that is after I take a pee and poop 💩 and change my socks and replace my Don’t Tread on Me: Liberty or Death 🗽 with a long sleeve shirt 👚 as the mercury is likely to drop before I get home. 🏡 Plus I figure wearing a pro-tea party shirt is probably considered a hate crime these days on New York. I’m no fan of Trump 🎺 but I like my guns 🔫, my freedom ✊ and someday want to live off grid and farm 🚜 probably with a well ventilated burn barrel out back 🔥 .

But I’m voting for Elizabeth Warren in the primary as long as she stays off my land 🐷 and gives me affordable health care so I can retire relatively young, focus on my off grid cabin and hobby farm. Working a real job just for health insurance 😷 in my sixties would ducking suck. I’d rather be chopping wood, hauling manure on my own land and checking a trap line for dogs I can harvest their pelts to pass my time.🐺 Buy real fur, it’s good for the planet 🌏 if you like healthy working forests! Working in the city might pay big bucks but it’s so damn depressing especially in a windowless office. 💻

I just so wish there was more private locations along the rail trail to take a piss. 👨 I totally get it, they were to build outhouses along the rail trail citiods would be shooting heroin 💉in them but I find I often need to take a piss when I’m walking 🚹 and it’s not like when I’m in the woods and can pee on any old tree🌲, that is after I check above to make sure that I’m not pissing under somebody above me in a tree stand. Sounds like I have personal experience but I’m sure anybody who has field dressed a deer knows what male sex organs look like for most antlered animals.

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 39 by 5pm. Sin☀ Windy, with a west wind 25 to 30 mph becoming northwest 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. 🍃 No real wind yet this morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 2018. 12.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

It sounds like it’s going to get cold and windy but so far it’s beautiful ☀ with no wind or clouds but I’m sure the trails are pretty wet so alas I’m planning on doing the rail trail this morning for a while. Later I might hike somewhere else but I don’t want to be ankle deep in mud. 👢 Rain on January can really guck up the soil substructure. Not only is it tough in your ankles it really ducks 🐦 up the trails. Later on its Sunday dinner at the folks house! 🍲 Big pot of ham stew I hear. 😋

That said, later on I might go up to Partridge Run State Game Management Area later on if it’s quite sunny ☀ and not too cold. I always like spending time out in the wilderness country and it’s not going to as crowded as the rail trail.🌲If I walked on old Partridge Run road it’s not likely to be muddy but they probably still have snow and ice up there so I’d want my micro spikes. ❄ Might be too cold though, but I miss spending time out in the woods and in the country.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.7° from the due south horizon (-45.1° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:59 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) starting at 4:40 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:14 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:50 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 41 degrees. Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest. Today will have 9 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 27 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 23 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 8th. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. 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 10 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1968.

🌹🌻🌼Only 67 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

But it feels like spring already this morning. 67 bottles of beer on the walls, 67 bottles of beer. And I don’t even drink any more. 🍻 Well except in the wilderness. Spring is coming and so are the black flies and trout fishing. 🎣 Big Red gets so muddy come spring with those dirt roads in Madison and Chenango County. Muddier than the cows in spring with those dirt roads ! 🐮 I love 😍 being out in the real wilderness of deep rural New York.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm with dusk at 5:30 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 28 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1950.

Good morning! Happy Static Electric Shock Day 🧼! That’s quite shocking, especially in buildings where the HVAC system isn’t doing a good controlling the humidity in the air, or those heated by wood. My parents always keep a tea kettle on their woodstove to control moisture in their house. Two weeks to National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀. Without cows, we wouldn’t have cheese. Well, and other lactating animals, but we cows the best because they produce the most milk 🐄 and it has most neutral taste. 🥛 Mostly sunny and 15 degrees at the Bethlehem Public Library as I pass it by on the earlier local bus. 🚍 There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 4. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

Kind of a chilly morning out waiting for the bus. 🚏But I’m sure it can and will get colder this winter but I’m unadjusted to the cold ❄. Didn’t seem to cold this morning in my apartment but the wind had died down and it’s not that cold. These are the kind of mornings that I love 😍 to be in the woods next to the heater sipping a hot cup of coffee ☕.

I got up early again because I knew I had to leave earlier for the local and needed extra time to get my suit and tie ready. 👔Last minute when I was putting my dress shirt on I discovered a stain and had to switch shirts. That’s fine although this shirt didn’t get ironed so the pocket has a wrinkle but you can’t see it under the jacket. So be it. I’ll save the other shirt for wearing with the vest. That said, I really enjoy getting up bright and early, 🌆 watching the sun rise as I drink my coffee. ☕ That is with a little hot coca mix put in it. I’ve heard it’s good to get a constant amount of sleep at regular times, so maybe I’ll continue to getting up at 6:30 AM come the weekend (and retiring to bed before 10 PM). 🛏

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 29 degrees at 2pm. One degrees below normal. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 2008. 9.9 inches of snow fell back in 1953.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:03 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.2° from the due south horizon (-45.6° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:55 pm with the sun in the southwest (232°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (240°) starting at 4:37 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 21 seconds with dusk around 5:11 pm, which is one minute and 3 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 27 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 16 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 21 degrees at 7pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 29th. Maximum wind chill around 21 at 6pm; South wind 5 to 13 mph. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1968.

Still looking at mild conditions and rain heading into the weekend. ☔But maybe not quite reach the sixties but at least the heat will be off. Saturday, rain likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. South wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Sunday, rain likely before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

Going to be a rainy weekend but I don’t mind. 💦 I’m still thinking about heading back out to Madison County for the Martin Luther King weekend if it’s not going to be too cold, wet or snowy. ⛺ Seems like they won’t have much at this point but it could change. I still sure we will have some good snow ⛄ and an artic blast before the end of the winter season.

🌹🌻🌼Only 70 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

I am looking forward to spring now that it’s only seventy days away. Everyday is one day closer. 🌷 I do believe time will go by quickly but that’s to my advantage because I’m a saver and investor and time gives a chance for growth.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 when the sun will be setting at 4:56 pm with dusk at 5:26 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 40 and 9 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906.

Good evening! Cloudy and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 1 am. ☃️

I got home this evening and was feeling kind of sick again. 😩 Achy and tired. Not sure what’s wrong again and I should have made the doctors appointment today but I was busy and had a headache. Skipped my evening walk 🚶 although I did ride the exercise bike 🚲 for a while. I thought about going to the library but I’ll probably do that tomorrow. If it’s raining I’ll probably drive down to the library and go to the store after that. 🏪 I do need to get milk for my coffee ☕ tomorrow – I’m totally out of moo juice 🐮 right now.

One good thing was that my contact lenses arrived today. 👀 I was surprised they approved them as I was pretty sure my prescription was expired but I didn’t want to go to the eye doctor. I will go the next time I need contacts to the doctor to ensure my eyes are healthy but a yearly contact lens exam seems a bit excessive when I can see fine and my eyes aren’t irritated – plus the price had come down sufficiently on the contacts I wear that it’s a pretty big savings compared to the eye doctors co-pay and spending time with that pushy miserable business and then going work with dilated pupils unable to see anything in the office. 🏢

Tonight will have a chance of rain, mainly after 3am. Patchy fog before 3am, then patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, cloudy 🌧, with a low of 37 degrees at 5am. 22 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 13th. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -15 occurred back in 1904.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 59% illuminated. At dusk you’ll see the moon in the south-southeast (149°) at an altitude of 47° from the horizon, some 250,920 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 Moon is a lot closer to earth 🌎 than last night. Well, at least 1,000 miles closer. The darkest hour is at 12:00 am, followed by dawn at 6:54 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:26 am in the east-southeast (121°) and last for 3 minutes and 24 seconds. Sunrise is 2 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 That’s good, finally getting more sun in the morning. The golden hour ends at 8:12 am with sun in the southeast (129°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 51 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 55 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. 🌧 High of 39 degrees at 12pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly clear by afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1950. 8.8 inches of snow fell back in 2003.❄

Should be a good day for washing my truck and going shopping 🏪 and maybe down to the library. 📚 Sunday definitely will be the best day of the weekend.

At least in the near future it looks like January will be a mild one ♨without much snow. Pattern could change before the end of winter but let’s be honest – once we get into February we can have bitterly cold weather but by the end of month it gets hard for the cold to stick around, especially as the sun angle increases as spring gets nearer.

In four weeks on January 31 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (247°) at 5:06 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 46 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, sunny and temperatures between 14 and -3 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 32 and 15 degrees. The record high of 58 degrees was set back in 1913.

I’ve so gotten into watching trapping videos online. 🐺 It is really a good way to make a little money 💵 in the woods while supporting healthy eco systems and maintaining a balance of wildlife. I am sure if I had my own land 🚜 and more of a place to clean and store pelts I would do a lot more. Maybe eventually when I own my off grid property.

I am tired 😴 and don’t feel great. 💤I should really get some sleep and be in no rush to get going tomorrow. And maybe going forward plan to get a sleep by ten 🔟.

Looking ahead, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 1 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 is in 5 weeks, Valentines Day ❤️ is in 6 weeks, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 10 weeks, Spring 🌷 is in 11 weeks, Good Friday ✝️ is in 14 weeks, May 🕊 is in 17 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 22 weeks, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 10 months.