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…
Friday morning coffee... A person could easily get spoiled by these cool morning temperatures. A bit of haze in the air, dew on the grass, a almost full moon hanging high in the shy... birds singing on all sides... I couldn't ask for a better way to start a day.…
Thursday morning coffee...It's another cool morning here on the back porch. The humidity is back... which is paradoxical because it not only makes the afternoons feel hotter, it also makes these cool mornings feel cooler... but, then again... it could just be the ceiling fans. This morning started off with…
Wednesday morning coffee... caught the sun rise this morning. I got out early to try for a bit more quiet before work started next door. Shot this video first thing and managed to catch the moment the light hit the trees. From the silence on the video it seems there…
Tuesday morning coffee... it's another cooler than normal day for June. The birds were in fine form right up until they were overshadowed by the sounds coming from the construction site 500 ft away. 7:30 came way too early for my taste, I was still enjoying my back porch time.…
https://youtu.be/lnRRDSYgdmw Aaron Franklin has become my goto person when it comes to improving my smoking of big chunks of meat... It was probably his use of a small backyard smoker in his video series that convince me to replace my old rusted out charbroiler with a Old Country. So far,…
Monday morning coffee and the day is cool and bright. The sky from the back porch is blue from horizon to horizon without a single blemish. Our resident hawk passes over low, scoping out the possibilities for breakfast, while silencing the ever present bird chorus for the moment. I hear…
Sunday morning coffee is always so peaceful on the back porch. No traffic sounds from the bypass up the road. Just the birds (and this year... the frogs in the woods out back) singing their borders for all to hear. The cool front keeps trying to push through... that gets…
Yesterday, while trolling through the many folders on my hard-drive, I stumbled across the xml WordPress export file that I used back in 2013 to move Coffee Muses to a new host... So thanks to that, I am only missing the few posts I put up in the past two…
Saturday morning coffee... there is a crew working just over the the city limit line (about 500' away). They have been at it since a bit after seven. I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't for the OSHA mandated backup alarm on their forklift... When you are listening to…
I guess since this is a rebuild of the original, I suppose I should explain the name of this site. Way back in May of 2006 I started a blog I called North Carolina Mountain Dreams at WordPress.com. Over the course of that first year I noticed a lot of…
Friday morning coffee is cool and damp with a bit of un-forecasted rain moving through. At least, the weather underground was not expecting it. Rolling waves of thunder got me out of bed. And watching the clouds roll by to their bass rumble was not a totally unpleasant way to…
Thursday morning coffee and the sun is out, the humidity is ridiculous, and there is a faint odor of rotting vegetation in the air. Green lizards scamper across the porch at my feet. Bluebirds flutter down in front of me, stealing bugs from the lizards, while cardinals sing from multiple…
I tried to see if the Wayback Machine had the very first Coffee Muses post... It seems the earliest they captured was from Jul 13 2007. Here is what was occupying my mind way back then: Well, I meandered thru my email, read the headlines and opinions of the paid…
I find myself spending a bit more time on the back porch today. For some reason the temperature is still below 70. It has made for a while pleasant morning of breezes and bird songs... now of only we could get a break from the raining weather! I kept trying…
