Day: April 9, 2023

To imagine I was angry that I forgot to buy tofu this week while shopping.

I realized how much I’ve changed in my forties. I’ve always been a bit on the dour side of things but I can’t imagine half the ways I’ve changed in my forties. The world is changing quickly but so am I too.

Good evening! Clear and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Just saw a shooting star .

That shooting star was bright as it burned on up in the atmosphere. Things are changing in the world today , although not all things are bad like the preservation of the lands off Cheese Hill Road as forever wild as an addition to Rennselearville State Forest. Found some more ticks on me after exploring more of the Hillcross Farm Parcel but I think I got them all off.

Tonight will be clear , with a low of 28 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 23rd. Calm wind. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1974.

I was thinking once it warms up and gets green out, I want to hammock camp at the Hillcross Farm Parcel, now that it’s state land and sit down by the pond one summer evening and look at the stars over the Catskill Mountains.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 84% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:48 pm. The Pink Moon is on Wednesday, April 26. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 5:56 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:25 am in the east (79°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 41 seconds earlier than yesterday. The golden hour ends at 7:03 am with sun in the east (85°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 49 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Going to be a very mild week coming up, first real preview of spring. Should be nice, so excited about sleeping with the windows open but not until tomorrow night. Now that the evenings are longer it will be nice in the park, to say nothing about sitting out back.

Tomorrow will be sunny , with a high of 65 degrees at 4pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 27th. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 49 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1922. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1961.

Tomorrow my truck gets serviced with a whole bunch of stuff due for 100k. It’s running decently well this year and I want to get more years out of it if at all possible. Going to paint or at least prime over the really rusted parts of the undercarriage and wheel wells probably next weekend.

Already giving a little thought about my next vehicle, once again thinking about a small car or Prisus for easier parking and saving money on longer trips but mostly because I don’t want to spend a fortune on a new vehicle and may want to switch over to more tent camping and backpacking as my health improves. Big trucks are so expenses these days, or maybe I’ve just grown more cost sensitive in my advanced age. Priorities in your forties are different and a decade really is just a blink of an eye .

In four weeks on May 7 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (294°) at 8:03 pm, which is 31 minutes and 48 seconds later then tonight. In 2022 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 59 and 45 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 69 and 45 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 1930.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 is Next Sunday, 8 PM Sunset is in 4 weeks, Mothers Day ‍ is in 5 weeks, Fathers Day is in 9 weeks, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM is in 14 weeks, 6:30 Sunrise is in 22 weeks, Constitution Day is in 23 weeks, October is in 25 weeks, Average High is 65 is in 26 weeks, Average High is 40 is in 8 months, Earliest Sunset of the Year is in 8 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise is in 35 weeks and Christmas Eve is in 37 weeks.