Good morning! Happy Average is High 70 🎑 ! Won’t be that hot today but it’s a true sign that autumn is coming on Tuesday. Next Sunday has More Night then Day 🀼/strong>󓀮 Partly cloudy and 41 degrees at the Black Creek Marsh WMA. ⛅ Calm wind.The skies will clear around 8 am.

Out hiking and bird watching 🐦 after the first frost of the year here. Cool but nice. Still not a lot of leaves in color and while I saw a doe 🦌 and some Blue Jays, a big fat Catbird and accidentally flushed out a grouse 🕊 I am hearing more birds than actually seeing them.

Had a quick cup of coffee ☕ and made some pancakes 🥞 before rushing out here for the first break of daylight. I hope I remembered to turn off the kitchen stove but if not the stove is on low and its a cast iron pan 🍳 so I’m not worried. 😯 It’s mostly just a waste of electricity and maybe a need to regrease the pan after washing.

In the afternoon I’ll probably hike at Partridge Run 🚶🏻 although I’m still considering my options. 💭 I am heading out to the folks house for Sunday dinner later on. Going to cool but still a nice day. Might want to get out there early so I don’t have to drive home when it’s pitch black out. With the rut underway, 🍆I find myself constantly scanning left then right, to avoid possibly hitting a deer 🦌.

Today will be partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞, with a high of 59 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 17th. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 8 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:50 pm with sun having an altitude of 48.2° from the due south horizon (-22.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:20 pm with the sun in the west (266°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (272°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:58 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:24 pm, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (234°) at an altitude of 16° from the horizon, 226,859 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:59 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have patchy frost after 4am. Otherwise, clear 🌃, with a low of 35 degrees at 6am. 15 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 31st. Light northwest wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1973.

My socks 🧦 were absolutely gross again when I took them off last night. I don’t know if it’s the boots 👢 or just my sweaty feet with the corn meal 🌽 based foot powder 👣 that replaced the talcum powder which isn’t sold anymore due to asbestos contamination. But they are soaking against in the laundry soap so I’m hoping the muck will come out. I will agitate them a bit and rinse them before pulling out of the bucket and putting in the wash – they just aren’t coming out real clean.

Still need to get the new battery 🔋 in my laptop. It should really improve the rate of battery life but unfortunately on this laptop it’s not a plug 🔌 and play battery, you have to physically disassemble things with care to replace the battery.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆 with dusk at 6:59 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 59 and 41 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1891.