Current Weather (on Wed 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport)

Partly Cloudy
Temp:
72°

Dewpoint:
66°

Wind:
SE 6 MPH

What isn’t shown in that snipit from my email is the humidity. Right now it is 94% and rising…Just think, we call this spring around these parts. You should see what we call summer…
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Handling violations found at 4 beef slaughterhouses | Chron.com [...]

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Another Reason To Be A Localvore…

Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird? - New York Times

Migratory songbirds like bobolinks, barn swallows and Eastern kingbirds are suffering mysterious population declines, and pesticides may well be to blame. A single application of a highly toxic pesticide to a field can kill seven to 25 songbirds per acre. [...]

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The weather out is delightful, even the humidity has fallen below 90%. Morning temperature is 64°. The skys are clear and the day has yet to break. We should be heading into a beautiful weekend. It could be time for a photo road trip…
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Well…It looks like the Industrial Agriculture/Food Industries strike again.
Food & wine | [...]

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Bush the philosopher has one thing right: Human dignity is served when people make choices for themselves rather than being nannied by the government. But only simpletons suppose that this principle is absolute: Where unfettered private initiative produces evidently bad outcomes, most people prefer an alternative. This is why we have a police force, food [...]

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