On Vacation In The Rockies
It's a different kind of Mountain Dream...
Author: Gary Boyd
Smoke on the Horizon
Morning on the back porch with my coffee, music playing softly in the background, reading my email and checking the news... I began to notice the one fluffy white cloud on the horizon wasn't moving. It would build up for a while then dissipate... then build up again and dissipate...…
And Now A Weather Joke
Do you see the joke? How about now? At 10:30 in the morning it already feels like 99º and the forecast is for today to be much cooler than yesterday. Southeast Texas weather in June just sucks all the life out of you...
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…
Cool Afternoon Thunderstorms
After a scorching day of sun, a line of heavy thunderstorms dropped the temperature like a rock. For a change we are enjoying our front porch. We came out front because the storms were blowing in from this side of the house. And the rain keeps falling...
Saturday morning on the back porch.
https://youtu.be/nMjBCIviFGQ Summer heat has set in this week.Temperatures are pushing the century mark and heat indexes are in spitting distance of 110.
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…
Ditto
Another day of rain on the back porch...
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…
After The Rain
I spent yesterday on the back porch enjoying the cool that came with the all day rain. Though the actual rain did not start till almost 2pm, the day was overcast from it's beginning and the temperature stayed below 70 for most of the day. It wasn't until the end…
Monday on the Back Porch is Rainy and Cool
https://youtu.be/wOxW5YWqqdU The pitter patter of raindrops hitting the roof. Rumbles of distant thunder rolling across the land. If the Weather Underground is to be believed... This is what my week will look like. My backyard is in need of a cutting but my Deere is in need of having the…
Saturday on the Back Porch
Between the frog, the birds, and my podcasts playing on this tablet I am typing on, the back porch is seldom quite. Unless, that is, I decide to turn off the podcasts...
I’m Still Here
Short lived rain, even shorter rumblings of thunder, flashes of sunshine in between... None of it stops the songs of the birds.
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.…
Cruel August | Redtree Times
...most years I struggle with the month of August and this particular one is no different.Source: Cruel August | Redtree Times I find myself in agreement with GC Meyers on the subject of August... But being in Texas and not New York, I find myself adding in July and September.…
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.
July 3 Muse – 2015
Friday morning Coffee Muses - there is a smell of rot in the air... a feeling that vegetation has sat too long in water. It is a smell that has been all to common this rainy year. It is the odor of life forced into overdrive... growing too much, too…
July 1 Muse – 2015
Wednesday Morning Coffee Muses - As I set here on my back porch reading the morning news, the stories are beginning to make me sad. We Americans keep fighting the same battles over and over and over again... Why? Because it's God's will... That seems to be the only answer…
June 26 Muse – 2015
Friday Morning Coffee Muses... It's a nice morning to be sitting on the back porch with my coffee. The summer weather pattern looks to be well established... Clear blue skies with just wisps of white to start the day... then beautiful cumulus clouds building up along the coast to my…
June 25 Muse – 2015
Thursday morning Coffee Muses from the back porch... Well it doesn't feel as cool as yesterday, but, then again... it doesn't feel as hot as Tuesday. So all in all, that's a good thing. Sitting here on one of our rare cloudless days makes me glad to be able to…
Wandering Around The Web
You never know where a thought may lead... I was reading my Facebook feed this morning and saw a post from Texas Music TV... https://youtu.be/q3zOYn6Ewgs When Pat mentioned that the song was from Jon Randall, It led me to a song I've loved for a while... Carolina Moon by Jon. Googling…
June 24 Muse- 2015
Wednesday morning Coffee Muses - Walking out on the back porch today was much different than it has been for the last week or so... The humidity is down to a less tropical feel and the temperature is a few degrees cooler than it has been trending. It's funny what…
June 23 Muse – 2015
Tuesday morning Coffee Muses... still hot and humid on the back porch. I have been struck by a continuing feature of this year... The lack of sunny days continue to be in stark contrast to past years. When I wander back thru the almanac feature in the Weather Underground, for…
June 22 Muse – 2015
Monday morning Coffee Muse... Well, summer has descended upon us and the back porch in the morning is becoming a place to sip iced coffee. The trouble with that is, I've never developed a taste for iced coffee... I still managed to make it through my email and Facebook updates…
Just Saying
That is all...
June 21 Muse – 2015
Sunday morning Coffee Muses... it's another overcast, warm, muggy, still morning on the back porch. Before 7am and above 80º, not the way I like my days to begin. It's mornings like this that leave with my mountain dreams... a rocking chair on a back porch watching the fog rise…
June 20 Muse
Saturday morning Coffee Muses... even the birds are happy to see the sun this morning. It's still warm and muggy on the back porch. It just doesn't feel as bad as yesterday. The blue skies should promise a bit of dryer air. Yesterday I was surprised by an unexpected thunderstorm…
June 19 Muse – 2015
Friday morning Coffee Muses... You know you are in trouble when you head for the back porch and you notice the windows are fogged up. These aren't single pane windows either... double pane low e... and still it's so humid and warm outside there is condensation on all of them.…
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…
