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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
That is all...
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Thursday Morning Coffee Muses... warmer this morning than yesterday even... The Weather Underground is telling me it feels like it's 85 and I'm here to tell you it feels even warmer. Even the ceiling fans on the back porch can't seem to move the heavy, muggy air enough to make…
Wednesday morning coffee... it looks like that two day rain event they have been threatening us with since Sunday night finally arrived just after I stepped out on the porch this morning. Starting the day at almost 80˚ with 100% humidity... lovely. After an all day TV weather event yesterday,…
When we went to bed last night the prognosticators were telling us the then still to be named Bill would be ashore when we awoke... Maybe. All morning the talking heads on the TV have been telling us Bill would be ashore in the next 45 minutes or so... For the last…
The following quote always leaves me with a queasy feeling... Michael Lowry, hurricane specialist with The Weather Channel, points out that three of the five wettest tropical cyclones on record for the U.S. mainland occurred in Texas, and none of them attained hurricane strength. These include Allison as well as…
Monday morning coffee... humidity up... check. Temperature up... check. Skies threatening...check. Local news weather prognosticators beginning to run in circles and cry the sky is falling... check. Bill might be paying us a visit... and I don't mean Bill Clinton (now that would be end of the world bad). No,…
Sunday morning coffee... The word for today boys and girls is humidity. It hits you in your face when you walk out the door. It coats your glasses with a film of moisture. You have to wait before you can use your camera... for a long time. The warmer it…
Saturday morning coffee... It's damp on the back porch this morning. Overnight some rain has already fallen. Thunder rolls in from the southeast promising more to come. A look at radar shows a long band of thunderstorms wrapping around us... Believe it or not, we can use the rain. When…
Friday morning coffee... another warm morning on the back porch. If you are in the sun, a very warm morning. Though, even in the shade under the ceiling fan, it's not what I would call cool. It's so warm even the clouds, what few I've seen, are little wispy things…
Thursday morning coffee...Another warm start to the day. At least we can see great big white fluffy clouds floating in from the Gulf. Yesterday afternoon we had pocket showers moving inland... nice circles of rain about a mile in diameter falling from high clouds so you could actually see the…
Wednesday morning coffee... a bit warmer on the back porch. It's also a bit quieter, not much in the way of bird noises, a dull far away rumble of traffic on the bypass. Way, way, far away the almost not heard sound of a train whistle drifts up. So I'm…
Tuesday morning coffee... after the beautiful skies of yesterday afternoon, we have returned to the mostly clear promise of 90+ degrees for today. Even the birds have been a bit subdued this morning. The sound that is moving to the front of our outdoor soundtrack though, is the sound that…
I guess what surprised me was I actually agreed with Republicans 19% of the time. To here my friends and relatives tell it, that's just way too high a percentage. Maybe they are talking about Maine Republicans, I always liked their Senators... Test Yourself... It's all in fun... Right?
Monday morning coffee... starting another week on the back porch. The temperature this morning is closer to normal, it's already passed 73 and headed up. The humidity is making it feel thick out... and the sky is full of clouds. The birds are singing their normal morning salutations... the crickets…
Sunday morning coffee... the day is as still as any I've seen. Yesterday ended this way, and it was miserable out on the back porch... even with the ceiling fans working overtime. Watching the wind cups on the weather station sitting perfectly still is just depressing... and not very common…
Saturday morning coffee... it's still dripping in the machine. The grandkids have been up and Sherry is already fussing with Abbie. We slept in and I already hear the work crew bumping around. Messing around with this little tablet I've been using has been an experience. I knew when I…
The sun, for starters. Also lightning, choking on a chicken bone, drowning in the bathtub, and people who text and drive. But probably not terrorism. Source: What to Be Afraid Of Timothy Egan has I point that has never left my mind since the first World Trade Center bombing... It's…
