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Maybe Autumn Does Exist In This World…

October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · weather

For the first time in the back half of the year it really does feel like autumn this morning…We are even feeling like the mountains I long for…

Alvin, TX

55.0 °F / 12.8 °C
Clear

Boone, NC

51.7 °F / 10.9 °C
Drizzle

Floyd, VA

53.4 °F / 11.9 °C
Overcast

What a way to wake up. Considering [...]

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Almost Fall? I Think Not…

September 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · just musings, weather, writing of place

For all of you folks up north feeling the beginnings of fall in the air, here is my morning forcast of what faces me on the way out the door…

Bobby Wright, Alvin, Texas (PWS)
Updated: 2 sec ago
Clear
79.7 °F / 26.5 °C
Clear
Humidity: 66%
Dew Point: 67 °F / 20 °C
Wind: 0.0 mph / 0 km/h
Wind Gust: 2.2 [...]

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After the rains…

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

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The weather here has been very dry…at least until the past week or so. We have been having a spring-like amount of rain. After complaining for so long about the lack, it seems almost sacrilegious to say anything about the water we needed so bad.
After months of not having to mow on [...]

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Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits—By Wendell Berry (Harper’s Magazine)

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

Anything Wendell Berry writes is worth the time it takes to digest…My recommendation is to go spend some time today with the man…
The general reaction to the apparent end of the era of cheap fossil fuel, as to other readily foreseeable curtailments, has been to delay any sort of reckoning. The strategies of delay, so [...]

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