January 22, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Partly clear and 23 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 11 am. 🌡️ Without the wind, not too bad of an evening.

Busy day at work, went to the Guilderland Planning Board meeting, 💼 picked up a few groceries and drain cleaner. I think the drain is fine now but I want to make sure it’s good before I dump more water 💦 down it. Flipped through Facebook for a while on my phone and going to sleep now. Another day is ahead tomorrow.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 15 degrees at 4am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around January 28th. Maximum wind chill around 18 at 5am; Light south wind. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1970.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 2% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 6:49 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:20 am in the east-southeast (117°) and last for 3 minutes and 15 seconds. Sunrise is 42 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Starting to add more light in the morning. The golden hour ends at 8:03 am with sun in the southeast (124°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 22 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 59 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 40 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1906. 10.6 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

In four weeks on February 19 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (255°) at 5:31 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 28 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 24 and 4 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 18 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 1981.

Looking ahead, 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 1 week, February Save the Pine Dinner 🦋 is in 4 weeks, Average High is 40 ☀️ is in 6 weeks, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 10 weeks, Pink Moon 🌕 is in 11 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 12 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 3 months, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 5 months, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 22 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 52 weeks.

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Why New York should eliminate cash bail for smaller crimes | CSNY

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Why New York should eliminate cash bail for smaller crimes | CSNY

Money should not be the determining factor for someone’s freedom. That’s why our bail bill carefully balances public safety concerns with the need for fairness and justice, and protects the presumption of innocence.

The bill eliminates cash bail for all nonviolent felonies and almost all misdemeanors. Instead of setting cash bail, judges would have the authority to release people with non-monetary conditions, such as having someone check in with pretrial services agencies.

It levels the playing field by eliminating the shameful practice of imprisoning persons simply because they are too poor to pay their way out of jail. This change will go a long way towards advancing equal justice and making pretrial release the norm and pretrial detention the exception.

One Year Ago During the Week of January 22

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Last year …

On Wednesday 01/23/19 we had rain showers 🌦 and partly cloudy 🌤 with high of 40 and a low of 9, which is nine degrees above normal.

On Thursday 01/24/19 we had rain 🌧 with high of 48 and a low of 32, which is 17 degrees above normal.

On Friday 01/25/19 we had partly sunny 🌞 and snow showers 🌦 with high of 35 and a low of 15, which is four degrees above normal.

On Saturday 01/26/19 we had partly cloudy 🌤 with high of 28 and a low of 14, which is three degrees below normal.

On Sunday 01/27/19 we had partly cloudy 🌤 and snow showers 🌦 with high of 40 and a low of 11, which is nine degrees above normal.

On Monday 01/28/19 we had sunny 🌞 with high of 22 and a low of 8, which is nine degrees below normal.

On Tuesday 01/29/19 we had snow 🌨 with high of 29 and a low of 5, which is two degrees below normal.

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Pigs.

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Pigs! Lately I’ve been watching or actually more like listening to YouTube videos while at work including North Country Off-Grid and jnull0 and Our Wyoming Life. I also sometimes listen to the NRA’s Cam Edwards 40 acres and a Fool podcast, where one of livestock he raises in tammaworth heritage hogs.

Growing up my neighbors raised hogs besides other livestock. Some of my friends from high school still have them. Pigs are kind of smelly, they root around in grain and food scraps that ferments when they rot. They can be rough on fences too and can tear up a landscape rooting around in the mud, seeking a good wallow to cool themselves out. Wild hogs, which have long escaped shooting preserves and farms can be incredibly destructive to farms and forest alike.

I’m not that much of a fan of store-bought bacon, especially after I let some bacon spoil and then try to cook it, but there are many cuts of pork that are incredibly delicious. Definitely need a strong fence, truck and a cage to move the hogs around, although I guess I would be better to shoot and process the animal on my own land. I’m not much of a meat cutter but I could learn, burying the guts on my own land so they rot away in a few years rather than sit in a landfill for a million years, compacted next to plastic bags and crushed television sets.

When I own my off grid cabin, my hope is to live as close to zero landfill as possible, putting waste to as high of use as possible.I don’t generate that much in food waste, keeping it out of the garbage keeps it drier so anything I end up ultimately burning out back will burn hotter and cleaner. Turning food scraps into feed and ultimately food is even better. Sure, I can and will compost but feed us a higher use. Likewise paper trash like shredded junk mail can be used for bedding, one more thing to keep out of landfills and out my burn pit, as most paper products don’t really burn that well, especially if they are wet.

Owning hogs might mean that I’m more strapped to my land, but when I’m at the point of having an off grid cabin I don’t think I’ll be as interested in traveling and camping, as I’ll have much of the same adventures on my land.