Good evening! Cold and damp and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 10 pm. ☃️

We got some pretty good icing midday ⛄ so I’m kind of glad that I stayed home. The commute home in the ice and slush could have been miserable. Never got to upload my photos from my trip as the library was closed. 📙 My truck is not solid froze with ice. I know they predicted it in the outlying areas but I didn’t expect any ice in Delmar. I’ll deal with it eventually. I haven’t been shopping yet this week so I do got to kind of dig it out.

Tonight will be drizzle at times, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy ☁, with a low of 33 degrees at 1am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 12th. Light and variable wind. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1917.

Tonight will have a with 31% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:01 am. The is on Wednesday night with partly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:25 am with the first light at 6:53 am, which is 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 37 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of drizzle before 10am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 10am and 11am, then a chance of rain showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 41 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 3rd. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1895. 7.9 inches of snow fell back in 2007.❄

I looked at a lot of dash cam videos and photos 📷 to share on my blog over the coming days when I get a chance to upload them. I want to better tell my story and how seeing the open farm country and rural lands really made me feel. It was so nice to get away and out of the basement where I work, even if I didn’t make it to the Finger Lakes. I also have been getting really interested in the path of moon and sun and are going to incorporate more astrological data into my blog 🎑 in the coming weeks.

I am leaning towards backcountry camping tomorrow night 🌃 to close out the decade but that’s to be decided in the morning. 🎇 I think they’re is enough snow and ice left out in the hilltowns to drag my gear back on a sled. I’ll have a nice fire 🔥 and toast out the end of the decade. I might even buy some egg nog or hot coca to have around the fire. It will be a simple campsite with the heater to keep me plenty warm. Too much ice and snow might make it hard to get a fire going. Not a done deal though for sure.

In four weeks on January 27 the sun will be setting at 5:01 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 58 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 40 and 11 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 62 degrees was set back in 1974.

Looking ahead, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 2 weeks, National Popcorn Day 🍿 is in 3 weeks, National Pie Day 🍰 is in 3 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 6 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 7 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 9 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 10 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 17 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 18 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 20 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 21 weeks, June 🍹 is in 22 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 25 weeks.

Good evening! Rain and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a east breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Back home on this rainy evening. It would have been fairly miserable camping tonight and it looks like we are stuck in this rainy pattern for a while, then it will get cold. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Wednesday around noontime. ☃️

I got home and unpacked. 💼 Not too difficult as my gear didn’t get that muddy and I only had one day worth of food and clothing packed. Moreover I’ve been leaving more and more of my camping gear in the truck year round and I have seperate cooking utensils now for at home versus at camp. 🍴 I had fish for dinner 🐠 and started looking at storing the dash cam photos and videos 📹 I got. Tomorrow I’ll walk down to the library and upload them if it’s not raining too hard. It’s kind of nice that I don’t have to work tomorrow.

Tonight will rain before 1am, then rain or freezing rain. 🌧 Low of 33 degrees at 10pm. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 12th. East wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. Probably just rain here. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 23 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1933.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌙 with 22% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:33 am. The is on Wednesday night with partly cloudy skies. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:52 am, which is 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 55 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 33 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain or freezing rain before noon, then rain between noon and 4pm, then rain and sleet after 4pm. High of 34 degrees at 12pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 22nd. Southeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 33 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1984. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

I have tomorrow off because the original plan had me out camping. ⛺ It will be a bit of a staycation I guess. Tuesday if there is still snow left in the hilltowns I’m thinking to a local state forest to back country camp in a hot tent for New Years Eve 🎇 but the key 🔑 is I need snow on the ground and roads not too icy for that to happen. No guarantees at this point.

I do want to do more winter camping for sure. Ideally I’d prefer to stay somewhere I can drive my truck to so I have electric 💡 and gear nearby but that’s not a show stopper for me. I’m really interested to find out if Moscow Hill campground is plowed, as that would be perfect even if it’s just far enough to get off the road. That said, I bet there are a lot of snowmobiles that assemble in that area going brap brap all winter long but even so I bet it thins out at night. 📞 I’ll have to call the DEC office in Sherburne and find out. Also if the snow isn’t deep I should be able to get there as the ground is really solid there due to the reinforcement for the horse trailers and hooves during the summer 🐴.

I don’t know but I was just taken in by the beauty of Southern Madison County and Northern Otsego County. 🐮 Yeah things did kind of smell earthy and like cow poop 💩 but that’s country living. The browns and the grays were pretty, they stirred something in my soul. I think it’s so fortunate to those who are able to chip a life out of the rural country, if by agriculture and one of many other jobs, some small, some decent paying but all tough with limited opportunity compared to the big cities.

Between the forested, snow covered hills full of wildlife and the rich farmlands below its such beautiful country. ⛲ So many quaint old farm houses and run down trailers, homesteaders with a family pig 🐽 or cow to muddy farms with old fashioned tie stall barns 🐮, milking twice a day with surge milkers and fifty year old open cab tractors with box spreaders. Weeds growing up around broken and forgotten farm equipment, piles of manure rotting away to be spread someday in the future. Trees to be split and someday warm the farm house. Four wheelers for fun and getting around the farm, a goat 🐐 tied to a tree, piles of junk to be scrapped some day or burnt to a crisp in a bonfire. 🔥 Rural scenes like this exist across the nation but I live in the city and make my money 💵 doing the urban thing now saving for a better tomorrow when I can own land in a freer state and have an off grid property, hopefully in an area as beautiful and wonderful as Southern Madison County.

I’d someday love 😍 to live in a place like that but not in an oppressively liberal state like New York which doesn’t really understand rural communities. After all two out of three New Yorkers live in the metropolitan region 🚇 – that is Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, New York City and Long Island. Might soon be 70 percent of New Yorkers. Pennsylvania is nice but it kind of suffers from the same problem – and its also an incredibly expensive state to live in especially with the recent gas tax hikes ⛽. City life may be getting better, as may regulations for fair commerce with business but its also an incredibly hard to make it in the small towns. I don’t think Trump is the answer but neither is his counterpart closer to home who exists 180 degrees out of phase but in many ways is similar.

2020 is going to be a big year for all of us 🎇 but my hope is it will be another step forward towards a better life. I’ll work hard and try to advance my career and help my company grow and move forward. What’s good for them is ultimately good for myself. 💼 I know working in the windowless basement office 🏢, paying my dues, someday will pay off with more career advancement, more money to save 💵 towards that off grid property out in the country.

Climate change will probably really kick in during the next decade, and it’s going to be a wild ride for mankind. I don’t think whatever comes out of the next election in the coming year will change that but it will bite us in the next decade and prove that we are doing much too little too late. 🌎 People use per capita stats to blame the guy with the rusty pickup and burping cows in the tie stall barn in Madison County but if you don’t look at the big cities for the root of the problem your just playing games with statistics. 🔢But my focus is enjoying life and saving for a better future and not saving the world.

In four weeks on January 26 the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 26 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 28 and 14 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 59 degrees was set back in 1950.

Looking ahead, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 1 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 4 weeks, 37th Birthday 🎉 is a month away, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 5 weeks, Snow Moon 🌕 is in 6 weeks, March 🌨 is in 9 weeks, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 10 weeks, Ides of March ✝ is in 11 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 14 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 15 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 19 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 20 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 23 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 24 weeks.

Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 7 pm. ☃️

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 33 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 12th. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1951.

Tonight will have a with 8% illuminated. The moon will rise at 9:24 am. The is on Wednesday night with partly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:52 am, which is 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 24 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 30th. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1982. 7 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

Tomorrow should be a really nice day but not sure about the rest of the week. ⛺ As I noted I’m pulling the plug on going to the Finger Lakes through New Years Day but I’m thinking about going to the Adirondacks tomorrow. Or maybe Madison County? I got thinking I’d like to see a more rural landscape for a change. NY 8 is always so noisy to camp along and I might be camping in snow, pretty sure I will be up north. Snow can be bad if there is a big snow bank and nowhere to park up north. But I’m a bit concerned about snow and ice up on Brown Road in Brookfield.

At any rate, I’ve packed gear for one night 🌃 and I have enough food and supplies for one night camping trip without going to the store. Multiple nights would require buying more food and packing more clothes. I’ll study for the webcams in the morning. And the radar and satellite images.

I mean I really want to get away but not if it means I’ll get soaked, muddy or chilled through. Sure I can read books at home 📖, cook on the regular stove a fancy meal and even turn up the electric heat if I want but I’d rather be up in the wilderness where I can have a fire and listen to music and nature with my headphones off. 🎧 Working in the basement office with no windows kind of has me bummed out and with the early snow storm and getting Lyme disease I didn’t get out as much as I wanted this autumn. 🔥

In four weeks on January 24 the sun will be setting at 4:57 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 19 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 48 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 54 degrees was set back in 1999.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 1 week, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 2 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 is in 6 weeks, Valentines Day ❤️ is in 7 weeks, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 11 weeks, Spring 🌷 is in 12 weeks, Good Friday ✝️ is in 15 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 4 months, May 🕊 is in 18 weeks and 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 23 weeks.

Good evening! Cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️ Not a terrible evening for the day after Christmas.

I was over at John Wolcott house after work for a while 🔎 looking at old historical documents 📄 as I often do on Thursday nights 🌃. It wasn’t a bad evening, some of the articles about the Knickerbocker Arena were fascinating. So much corruption in Albany during the final years of the Corning administration into the Whalen era. And it was County Executive Jim Coyne who ultimately was the fall guy but he certainly wasn’t the only crook in Albany. 🏫

Getting ready for the camping trip tomorrow ⛺ although first I’m getting to bed early. 😴 Might as well get to bed early if I keep waking up so early. I’m hopeful that camping will improve my sleep. The nights are certainly dark and long this time of year in the woods – nearly fifteen hours darkness each night. I’ll probably retire to bed by eight or nine most nights at camp but I might read or listen to podcasts for a while. 🔊 Certainly the tent will be the warmest location, especially with the heater on that expected damp and rainy Sunday night. I’m just glad to be away from Albany for sure. I really miss the rural landscape. Sure, it’s not West Virginia but it’s still a big change from Albany or the parts of the Adirondacks I visit regularly.

Tonight will have a chance of rain or freezing rain before midnight, then a chance of rain showers between midnight and 3am, then a chance of freezing rain after 3am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 32 degrees at 11pm. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 16th. South wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1914.

Tonight will have Waxing Crescent Moon 🌙 a with 4% illuminated. The moon will rise at 8:39 am. The is on Wednesday night with mostly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:52 am, which is 21 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 21 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly before 3pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 45 degrees at 2pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 23rd. South wind 5 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1895. 15 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄ Well before my time – 110 years earlier.

In four weeks on January 23 the sun will be setting at 4:56 pm,🌄 which is 28 minutes and 44 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 40 and 9 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 64 degrees was set back in 1906.

Looking ahead, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 2 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 4 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is a month away, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 8 weeks and Flower Moon 🌕 is in 19 weeks.