It Almost Feels Like Fall

At least for Texas... the morning started off clear and only in the mid seventies. As I sit hear on my second cup, it is still there... Though rising. And, the answer to yesterday's question... not one drop of rain fell on my house. All day long thunder rolled around,…

Will It Rain

For the past week the forecast has been for thunderstorms and each day we have seen them pop up and move past to one side or the other. Almost every day the sound of distant thunder has accompanied my morning coffee. Today I can even smell the rain. But, the…

Sunday Morning Starting Off Cool

After late afternoon thunderstorms lowered the temperature last evening, the morning coffee on the back porch was almost cool. At least while the ceiling fans are going. The two fans above my head have to be one of the best investments I made when we built this house. They are…

And The Heat Is On…

Stepped out on the back porch this morning for that essential first cup and the heat and humidity hit me full in my face... It's so sad that it's such a beautiful day. Blue skies with a scattering of white fluffy clouds. I hear my first hum of cicadas as…

And Now For The Steam…

It's still cool on the back porch, even as the sun peaks through the mostly clouded sky. There is a front sitting right on top of my house. Sadly "cool" fronts at this time of year aren't really very cool. Once we get past all of the rain we will…

Rainy Friday Back Porch Muse

At least it's cool on the back porch this morning. Still raining... but cool. Yesterday it was raining and hot. The yard is starting to look like a swamp in a lot of places. If you look closely, you can see where I stopped mowing on Wednesday when I was…

Autumn Muses

This time of year I find myself following the weather trends at the homes of my friends as much more than our own. As you can tell from the lack of activity here, I tend to go into hibernation come summer, and wait for the cooler seasons to show here.…

Summer Time Blues

This has been a poor excuse of a month. A couple of weeks ago I was greeted with an email telling me this website and all of the others I host here had been disabled... Shut down for a breach in my terms of service. Seems, at least according to my hosting folks, I had been hacked and malicious code or viruses had been inserted into my sites. They scanned everything and gave me a four page list of files that were bad. All of this during a period of time when my better half was recuperating from surgery and expected some entertaining.

Let’s Recap TS Bill

But given the information we did have—the city was in the path of a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of about 45 mph—did it make sense that all of the drinking water should be gone? Shouldn’t we have been armed with the knowledge that a storm like Bill likely wouldn’t incapacitate the municipal water…

June 17 Muse – 2015

Wednesday morning coffee... it looks like that two day rain event they have been threatening us with since Sunday night finally arrived just after I stepped out on the porch this morning. Starting the day at almost 80˚ with 100% humidity... lovely. After an all day TV weather event yesterday,…

And We Wait

When we went to bed last night the prognosticators were telling us the then still to be named Bill would be ashore when we awoke... Maybe. All morning the talking heads on the TV have been telling us Bill would be ashore in the next 45 minutes or so... For the last…

Happy May Day

I wandered over to the Wunderground.com to check the extended forecast for this first week in May and here is what I saw: Thursday Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy. High of 84F with a heat index of 91F. Winds from the SE at 5 to 10 mph.…

The Trouble With Spring

It's beautiful outside. It has been beautiful for a week or more. My thoughts keep turning to digging in the dirt... Planting things that are beautiful, things that taste good, things that attract birds and butterflies. This is my way of saying I'll be missing more than I'm here on the web for…