Good evening! Clear and 14 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 0. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Wednesday around noontime. 🌡️ Kind of a cold evening, I turned up the heat a bit before bed to ensure things aren’t too cold come morning even though its comfortable right now in the apartment due to the sun hitting the building all day.

It was a good long weekend even if it was pretty cold and somewhat snowy ❄. It would have been fun to gotten out of town but it was pretty cold and they got quite a bit of snow up north and out west. Got groceries, hiked at Schodack Island State Park, finally emptied the overflowing paper 📄 recycling bin ♻ at the park and ride and took the other trash, recycling and compost out. Still need to return the beer cans the next time I go to the store. Made some progress on cleaning but there is more to do. Definitely lot of sun ☀ today but cold. The rest of the week should be quite sunny but cold.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 6 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal. Single digits. Cold but not that bad in the grand scheme of things. Maximum wind chill around -1 at 6am; Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2019, we had light snow. It got down to -7 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1994.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 14% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 6:50 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:21 am in the east-southeast (117°) and last for 3 minutes and 16 seconds. Sunrise is 38 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:04 am with sun in the southeast (125°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 26 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 54 seconds over last night.

Bathroom sink is plugged again 🚽 and I’m out of drain cleaner again. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the sink on and off during the past few months. I was put some in the morning but it’s not free so I ended up mopping up the extra water 💦 and hopefully by morning it will be freed up. If not tomorrow after work I’ll get more cleaner. I’m fairly certain the clog is in the trap, if I have to I will pull it off and clean it myself. I’m hoping to do it with vise grips but if I need I’ll get a bigger plumber wrench 🔧 for my tool box. But first I’ll add more lye from the store. Worse comes to worse I’ll call the landlord but it’s only in the trap so I think I can address myself.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 24 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. A year ago, we had snow in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 5 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 2006. 7.2 inches of snow fell back in 1990.❄

In four weeks on February 17 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (254°) at 5:29 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 23 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 31 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 18 degrees. The record high of 60 degrees was set back in 1981.

Looking ahead, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 3 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 4 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is a month away, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 6 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 7 weeks, Spring 🌷 is in 2 months, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 14 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 15 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 17 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 18 weeks, June 🍹 is in 19 weeks, Summer ️⛱️ is in 5 months, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 22 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 12 months.

Good evening! Snow flurries, cold, cloudy and 22 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 9. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. Maybe less as today was quite mild. But cold tomorrow and Tuesday. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Wednesday around noontime. 🌡️

Stayed home today 🏡, did a lot of cleaning, some reading and quite a bit of time on my now well adjusted quiet exercise bike 🚲 that is no longer making my knee caps hurt from the seat being too low and the sqweaks and noise levels are much lower. Ironically my neighbor is out of town this weekend so it doesn’t matter much but regardless when he’s home I don’t have to worry as much about the lower level of noise bothering him. 🔕

Making a lot of progress on cleaning the bathtub 🛀 which had quite a thick layer of soap on the back splash 💦. That soap can be hard to clean. 🧹 Did lot of dusting too. Just do one thing and then you need to clean another thing. I think when I own my own land I would want a house a lot smaller than my apartment with concrete, wood, or tile floors that are easy to clean.

Not really sick but been a bit congested 😷 so I figured if I stay home I will avoid getting sicker. It’s just the cold that’s been going around the office 🏢 – low level thing I want to burn off without getting sick.

Almost finished reading 📖 that book on Storm Lake, Iowa. Interesting story about what is happening in many rural communities – although I do think the author has a liberal bias – and he’s not necessarily telling the story as the farmers in many cases see it. 🚜

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 10 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -4 at 6am; Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. That wind sucks. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became heavier snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 0 degrees. Cold night. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.

Going to be a pretty cold night 🌃 and I probably should turn up the heat so it won’t be too cold in my apartment by morning.

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent 🌒 Moon with 22% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:07 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 16 seconds. Sunrise is 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:05 am with sun in the southeast (125°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 28 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 51 seconds over last night.

M. L. King Day will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 22 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal. Northwest wind around 10 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 21 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 2006. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄ I don’t remember it snowing that much on MLK day last year but I think it was a Saturday or Sunday. I’d have to look at the calendar 📅.

Tomorrow should be a nice quiet day. 😴 I want to get an early start, not sure if I will go skiing 🎿 or not Monday. Might be pretty cold based on the forecast, especially the wind. Definitely need to go shopping and later to the library. Also out going to the folks house for dinner, they’re making pork roast 🐖.

In four weeks on February 16 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (254°) at 5:27 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 20 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 34 and 22 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 17 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 2006.

Looking ahead, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 1 weeks, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 2 weeks, Snow Moon 🌕 is in 3 weeks, February Save the Pine Dinner 🦋 is a month away, March 🌨 is in 6 weeks, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 7 weeks, Ides of March ✝ is in 8 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 11 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 12 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 16 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 17 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 20 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 21 weeks.

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 evening! Partly cloudy and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 29 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 13. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around noontime. 🌡️

I stayed home and rode the exercise bike 🚲 for over an hour or maybe an hour and a half until my knees were getting a bit sore and I was tired 😴. I then worked on typing up the catalogue 📇 for John Wolcotts files 📂. We have roughly 220 categories. I need to spell check and do some research and then print the labels 🔖. I don’t have a printer but I think John or Lynne can do it.

I was watching that Canadian trapper video 📹 and then one on Homesteady about first time calving, then an electronics teardown video on Big Clive electronics. Read for a while too. Eat the last of the pork roast 🐖 from the other week that I froze. That was good, pork roast is a treat for a change. As I tend to keep my bedroom cool, use red lighting only and screen filters, I’m already feeling really tired. Going to bed early and getting up early each day has really improved my sleep lately. 💤

I turned the gas heat up to 55 or 56 so it will probably run all night ♨ but at least things won’t get too cold with the gas heat. I haven’t cleaned off the electric radiator up stairs but I rarely ever use that. I’m fine with keeping things cold – saves energy ⚡ and I’m comfortable. My main concern is pipes freezing although it is not super cold like some years yet.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 11 degrees at 6am. Three degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -5 at 6am; Northwest wind around 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1971.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon Moon with 55% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:51 pm. You should be able to see it tonight if you stay up late enough. The darkest hour is at 12:06 am, followed by dawn at 6:52 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:23 am in the east-southeast (118°) and last for 3 minutes and 18 seconds. Sunrise is 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:07 am with sun in the southeast (126°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 33 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 42 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 20 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 6 at 3pm; Northwest wind 13 to 16 mph. That wind chill is going to be frigid. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 24 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1889. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

I told John Wolcott I’d go to his house tomorrow after work 📂 but I’ll have my laptop and pack and I don’t want to carry it over there especially with the expected bitter cold ❄. Plus I’m thinking I might have a bit of a head cold. At least that’s what I can tell him assuming he doesn’t read 📖 the blog. Honestly I’d prefer to get the labels done and be working on the final sort before we do much more because the stuff we’ve been finding lately isn’t really all that historically important and interesting compared to previous stuff. I guess you never really know what a box has 🎁 until you open it. He saves too much paper 📄 in my opinion. Especially once I own my own place, I don’t need something it’s getting burnt or put in the scrap metal pile. There is just too much stuff in this world to keep with mass production – buy less and if your not using it, get some beer, get a big ol bonfire going and chuck it in it. 🔥 I can’t wait until I live in the country full time and have toys like four wheelers and tractors 🚜. I already have too much junk for sure and I always avoid buying stuff but it accumulates.

In four weeks on February 13 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (252°) at 5:23 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 3 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had snow showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 38 and 21 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 34 and 17 degrees. The record high of 58 degrees was set back in 1900. That was a long time ago for sure.

I tell you, that wind is really roaring around.

Looking ahead, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 1 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 is in 3 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 5 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 16 weeks and Average High is 70 🐮 is in 4 months.

Good evening! Cloudy and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 4 pm. ☃️

I walked down to the library for a while to return my books 📚. I was going to work on the John Wolcott project but I’ve had little ambition to do that much data entry after a busy day at work. 📇 He’s out of the hospital and feeling better, I’ll be back over on Friday. I really think I want to spend time cleaning up the existing sorted files 📂 and getting better labels 🔖 on the folders. Rode the exercise bike 🚲 for a few minutes but stopped as my neighbor came home and lately it’s been quite squeaky. I’m hoping I can lubricate and tighten it up and get rid of the noise. It is pretty old and hardly a quiet machine at this point.

Neighbors have a candle burning in their window as I go to bed. 🕯️ I sure hope they’re keeping an eye on it 👀 and not falling asleep with it at still burning 🔥. I actually am going to make sure that I know where my wallet is and laptop bag before bed in case my neighbor’s place catches fire. 🛋️ Its not directly connected to my building but if it caught fire, there is a risk of fire brands hitting my building so I would have to evacuate. I am all for using fire in a controlled way – its great for restoring habitats, heating buildings, cooking food and disposing of waste in rural areas – but it’s such a menace especially in the cities. 🌇 I’m sure it will be fine or so I hope.

Tonight will have a chance of drizzle or light rain before 11pm, then a slight chance of drizzle between 11pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 35 degrees at 6am. 21 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 8th. South wind 7 to 13 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1957.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous 🌖 Moon. The darkest hour is at 12:05 am, followed by dawn at 6:53 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:24 am in the east-southeast (119°) and last for 3 minutes and 19 seconds. Sunrise is 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:08 am with sun in the southeast (127°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 37 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 35 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 43 degrees at 1pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 12th. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph. Should be a very pleasant day. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 33 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1995. 13.4 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

It wasn’t a bad day at work, meeting went well. 💼 Busy today but I got another report finalized on my end of things. Making good progress. I got a nice complement from my boss to a client. Busy but so drab in that windowless office 🏢 with those cool white florescent bulbs. But I’m getting stuff done, getting results for clients.

I got bumped by a car 🚙 in a crosswalk today 💥but I wasn’t injured. I thought I made eye contact 👀 with the driver but I was kind of day dreaming and neither of us were looking. I bumped my hand into the hood of his truck but I never hit the bumper and didn’t do any damage. Got to be more careful crossing the streets. I haven’t had a close call like that in years – once before something similar happened in college – but I know it’s definitely possible to get in a much worse accident then getting brushed by a car. 🚶 Drivers just don’t pay attention. Neither do I at times when I say dream. 💭 Pine Busher Lynne Jackson and bicycle activist Burt Shou has been warning ⚠ me about this for years.

In my suit 👔I do see myself getting old and gray in parts and with only a little over 3 years until I’m forty years old I really should try to understand myself and my future better. 👴 Still researching counseling services. I should just make an appointment and its only $25. I don’t like it, I don’t have to go back. But I could become a better person. 👪 It’s great to save for my future but I really should figure out if I should be looking to do other things in the meantime. Old age creeps up suddenly and I don’t want to be at a place where I can no longer do the things I want to do, like moving out west to rural town, my off grid property or hobby farm. 🚜 Watching YouTube videos has me constantly thinking about all the other way people live and put food on their table. Some options will never be open to me, but if I have a better plan and more confidence I can open new doors for my future. 🚪I wish I could walk into a room, have a firm hand shake and be more charismatic and not a reserved somewhat crude hillbilly in a suit.

As I mentioned earlier, Iowa always seems like a fun state but not a lot of public land and land there can be super expensive due to amazing soils. 🌽 I follow Iowa Dairy Boys and a few other farm channels on the YouTube 🐮 and while some of the farming isn’t that different than here in New York with old tie stall barns, they also have some really big and very fertile fields that are uncommon except for a few deep valleys in New York like the Genesee Valley of Western NY. But those are tiny in comparison to the vast fertile Iowa prarie. They also get quite a bit of snow and cold in Iowa – they’re winters are cooler than New York but hotter on summer due to the lack of moderating Atlantic Ocean. I also follow an off gridder in a shed to home 🏡 in Iowa, as you might guess in a rural state like that many of rural areas are reasonably laid back on zoning and codes. I do love 😍 learning about how those farm families fight the forces of nature and the market to scratch together a living often on the margins. They might have a lot of investment in their land and operations but even in Iowa are often struggling to make ends meet.

In four weeks on February 11 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (251°) at 5:21 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 47 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 18 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 34 and 17 degrees. The record high of 59 degrees was set back in 1981.

Looking ahead, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 4 weeks, Valentines Day ❤️ is a month away, National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 5 weeks, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is in 9 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 12 weeks, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 16 weeks, Fathers Day 👨 is in 5 months, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 23 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 42 weeks.

Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 5 am. ☃️

It was a nice mild evening for my evening walk 🚶. I also road the exercise bike 🚲 for nearly an hour after dinner. 🍲 Read 📖 for about an hour. Now I’m getting ready for lights out as it’s nearly ten 🔟 o’clock.

Dinner was macaroni and cheese with frozen sweet corn 🌽 and diced tomatoes 🍅. Those canned diced tomatoes add a lot of kick to macaroni and cheese, top it all off with some grated cheese up top. 🐮 Plus serve it with a good glass of milk and its dairyific! Gotta love them cows. Not a lot of waste in packaging and an inexpensive meal.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 31 degrees at 6am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 29th. Light southwest wind. 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 8 degrees. The record low of -24 occurred back in 1957.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌒 Moon with 86% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:05 am, followed by dawn at 6:53 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:24 am in the east-southeast (119°) and last for 3 minutes and 19 seconds. Sunrise is 22 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:09 am with sun in the southeast (127°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 38 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 32 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 39 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 28 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1932. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1999.❄

In four weeks on February 10 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (251°) at 5:20 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 37 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 33 and 16 degrees. By then things will be warming up a bit, well in theory. The record high of 53 degrees was set back in 1955. Who knows, this year we could best that but it seems like soon we will be in a cold spell. But the warm weather so far this season has made up for higher heating bills later in the year I guess.

Looking more and more like a big snowstorm ❄ next weekend but we will wait and see. No guarantees but I still see a cooling trend by next weekend. I really doubt my trip to Brookfield will be an reality but I could camp after the snow storm somewhere locally. Or just stay home.

Looking ahead, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 1 week, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 4 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 5 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 7 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 8 weeks, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 2 months, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 15 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 16 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 18 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 19 weeks, June 🍹 is in 20 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 23 weeks.