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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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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After months of fighting with signal strengths on the different televisions scatered around the house I was already starting to dread the day when a analog signal was no longer available as a backup. So this morning as I sat with my first cup of coffee I switched on the tv in the kitchen with [...]

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Growing up, we spent many summer days visiting my grandparents house in Orchard, Texas. Every evening, after supper was over and cleaned up, we would all grab a folding lawn chair off the back porch and set them up in a rough circle on the east side of the house. We always picked an area [...]

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