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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I find myself still borrowing my wife’s laptop to take care of online chores…Number two son should be by this afternoon with his set of diagnostics disks and tricks to see if what I have is a hardware problem to turn over to Dell…His being in New York every week for the past couple of [...]

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Standing out in the backyard with my morning coffee as the sun rises, it was still. There was absolutely no breeze stirring, an unusual occurrence for here, at least lately…Cool and damp with dew on the grass, my body warmed by the rising sun. I was astonished to note the background roar of traffic coming [...]

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The day started out overcast but by 10am the clouds were mostly moved out. Temperatures are already mid 70’s outside. It should be what would pass for a beautiful summer day in most parts of the country…Here it’s just spring!
More spring shots from my afternoon walk of the other day…
In this neck of the woods, [...]

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We had a “cool” front blow through here this morning…Cool is now at 71° and rising. The front brought an hour or so of rain and then clear blue sky.
The real sign of spring though is the cardinals, you know…Red birds chasing other red birds out of their perceived territory. When the cardinals start enforcing [...]

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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration moved to block a mountaintop coal-mining project from going forward and said Tuesday it would scrutinize more than a hundred mining permits amid concern about the waste that is dumped into rivers and streams.
It was viewed as the first time in at least eight years the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]

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Ten days into March and the weather feels more like late spring or early summer from my childhood. This week we have seen 80’s over and over again. So far the March winds (which began blowing in November) have kept the house reasonably comfortable. I don’t like to think about what this will mean for [...]

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This past week the signs of the season’s change have sprung up all around…The oaks that were stripped of their leaves by Ike in September, now are leafing out with all of that bright, spring green color that changes the very light. Around the edge of this little house the pastel colors of the azaleas [...]

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