Good evening! Rain showers and 72 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 69 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 3 am.

Went to the store and are continuing to get packed. 💼 I did forget to get paper towels and extra mantles for the lantern 🏮 so I may need to run to Walmart at lunch time. If I can find mantles in my truck, I’ll just get the paper towels at Hannaford. I don’t normally use them at home but they are handy up at camp and they burn just fine. 🔥

I got to return my overdue library books 📚 and renew the other ones. While there is no fines currently through November 1st due to the pandemic folks might be wanting to read about hog farming and homesteading. 🐽 I actually could have renewed all the books timely but I didn’t care because there aren’t any fines due to the delayed returns when they quarantine the books at the depositary.

Finally took a shower 🚿 after four days. I was kind of feeling hot and sweaty so I took a quick shower before bed 🛏. Yeah, I probably should do that more often but in the era of social distancing who knows how often you bathe or use deodorant. It’s not like anybody is allowed to be within 6⃣ feet at any rate.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 10pm. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1976.

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon with 98% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east-southeast (120°) at an altitude of 18° from the horizon, some 249,694 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 March 11^th. Buckle up for safety! The darkest hour is at 12:56 am, followed by dawn at 5:54 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:23 am in the east (79°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:00 am with sun in the east (85°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 55 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 82 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 9th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 6am. Light and variable wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. It’s going to quite summer like. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It became sticky as the day progressed. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.

It should be a nice run of weather after tonight ☀ up in Vermont. 🌲🌲🌲🌲 If I was packed and didn’t have that Zoom Meetings tomorrow I’d probably leave before work but I’d rather do the meeting where I have library bandwidth to do it. 📹 It should be nice working up in Vermont, just need to make sure that I get a campsite ⛺ with good cell service for work. I’ll have my work laptop but hopefully most things I can do for my phone.

Most of the long weekend looks quite cool so I’m packing my heater so I can warm up quickly ♨️ on the cold mornings. I don’t expect many days will be above 70 in Vermont which will be good in the sense the ice will last longer. I concede I will probably have to get ice by Monday, depending on how long I stay in Vermont. I am freezing all the meat 🥩 and cheeses 🧀 for the cooler but I know ice won’t last forever. ❄

I extended my blog contract yesterday for three 3⃣ more years. 📝 I like doing the blog and it’s only like $390 for 3 years so it’s not expensive. At one point I experimented with web ads and brought in like $120 but it is really ain’t a big expense. People spend a ton more on cable service or even streaming video. 📺 Next paycheck I’ll increase my investing but for now the extra money will pay for the car insurance and the web hosting at least in part. 🕸

In four weeks on September 30 the sun will be setting in the west (266°) at 6:38 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 30 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 68 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 66 and 45 degrees. The record high of 88 degrees was set back in 1905.

Looking ahead, Average High is 65 🍂 is a month away, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 8 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 9 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 10 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 14 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 15 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 16 weeks, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 17 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 19 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 20 weeks, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 5 months, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 23 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 24 weeks.