After watching rain showers bypass us on Tuesday, we managed to be in the way of a passing cloud yesterday. With an hour of steady rain, the ground soaked up every drop as fast as it fell. Sherry and I sat on the front porch and watched the amazing sight…Water…Falling from the sky…Then I went [...]

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These clouds are moving south just west of us this evening. We have already had an hour or more of heavy rain…All soaked in.
Nobody was anticipating this. The temperature after the rains moved through was registering 72°…Now back up at 76°. The lightning was amazing! The wind was blowing!
And for over an hour we had [...]

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Currently (on Thu 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport)

Cloudy
Temp:
81° (Heat Index 87°)

Dewpoint:
75°

Wind:
Calm MPH

I stepped out on the back steps this morning as the coffee pot dripped and ran into a wall of heat. Yesterday at this time it the thermometer was reading 72°. What a difference a day makes. With this kind of headstart, the afternoon high [...]

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I stepped out my back door as the thermometer passed 100° F today and snapped this picture. The prognosticators say we had a heat index of 108° and it will be as hot tomorrow…
Statement as of 4:04 PM CDT on June 24, 2009
… Heat advisory in effect until 7 PM CDT Thursday…
The National Weather Service [...]

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It seems the culprit in my WordPress upgrade problems was a plugin called “Events Manager” Version 2.0rc1. Once I disabled this plugin my menu problems went away on my North Carolina Mountain Dreams Blog.
Now this cannot be the only problem because Virginia Mountain Dreams still works fine…Both blogs use the same theme, same plugin list, [...]

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I find myself spending more of my time outside than I am used to. Yes, it’s hot out…And dry. It almost reminds me of my summer in south Texas back in the early 1970’s. Unusually dry heat for Southeast Texas at this time of the year.
Walking the trail I’ve laid out around the backyard and [...]

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There are times my hometown newspaper makes me proud…This is one of them. In an editorial yesterday they laid out the argument for health care reform and touched many of the  reasons that what is being argued in Congress is just BS. These three paragraphs tell the story… but you really should follow the link [...]

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It looks like the recent round of upgrades to both WordPress and Advertising Manager has screwed up the layouts of my blogs totally.
Originally, I was using Adsence Manager as a Widget Control Panel. Paste any code into an add, give it a name, it showed up in your widget list by name. The change to [...]

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