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It's not even 9am and this is what the local weather station has to say about the temperature here: Temperature 90.7 °F Feels Like 107 °F Yesterday it hit 102° by noon on the back porch. It was still holding above 90° when I went to bed after 11pm...We tied records around here…
The one thing that makes it worthwhile to continue to wade through each new David Brooks Column isn't the fantasy fiction Mr. Brooks turns out each time. It's the quality of the comments from the readers that makes me waste so much of my morning on the days I give…
There was a time not too many years back when the music never stopped playing in what ever room I was in. Then for a long time it was podcasts that played all day long. Then I began to notice that the predominate theme of the podcasts were all politics...…
Yesterday about mid-morning, I was sitting in the rocker on the back porch with a cup of coffee. The temperature had already passed the mid-eighties. The ceiling fans on the porch were the only thing making it doable. Later in the day, as Sherry was driving in from work, I looked over…
I never realized how much of my life I've spent on the Gulf Coastal Prairie...I found this video on line as I was looking for information on native plants. The original link fell by the wayside over the years so here are few new links ... https://youtu.be/aqknxErvs6Y https://youtu.be/_u1K-AQ9fCc https://youtu.be/VMDZ5GTQKhQ https://youtu.be/mZdsyKaIAYE
It all started last weekend. I walked out on the back porch and did a double take at the garden...Then I back pedaled into the house and call my wife and grandson to hurry out and see. There in the garden that Saturday morning were a couple of peafowl...Peahens, maybe. As…
Temperature 84.7 °F Feels Like 91 °F
I wandered over to the Wunderground.com to check the extended forecast for this first week in May and here is what I saw: Thursday Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy. High of 84F with a heat index of 91F. Winds from the SE at 5 to 10 mph.…
Now here's a diet I can dip my strawberry in...Or maybe even a carrot and a stick of celery? Chocolate may not be as hazardous to your waistline as you think — at least in moderation.A new study shows that people who eat chocolate frequently have lower body mass indexes…
Video No Longer Available As individuals creating something we are limited by time, talent, energy and (sometimes) money. When we act collectively though, magic happens. via Building more than a house | OdeWire. For some real inspiration, follow the link above...The story is almost as inspiring as the song.
It's beautiful outside. It has been beautiful for a week or more. My thoughts keep turning to digging in the dirt... Planting things that are beautiful, things that taste good, things that attract birds and butterflies. This is my way of saying I'll be missing more than I'm here on the web for…
There is a great dividing year in the history of coffee in America, and it is 1972. Before it, the percolator. After, automatic drip. via Here’s to Mr. Coffee, Known to Some as Sam - NYTimes.com. One of the co-inventors of the home drip coffeemaker died this month at the…
The world out my window this week has been rather busy. The hummingbirds are visiting the feeder off the front porch. That means it's time to pull the rest out of storage and spot them around the place. All of our trees are at some stage in their re-leafing. The Pecans and the…
Today 81 °F Rain Showers 20% chance of precipitation Tonight 66 °F Mostly Cloudy Tomorrow 86 | 64 °F Rain Showers 20% chance of precipitation Just saying...
Today' Weather81 °FT-storms 20% chance of precipitation So, we sprang forward again yesterday. And here we are with what much of the country would consider a summertime forecast. It's already 62° out and the sun isn't up yet. Not that that is an unusually high temperature to be starting the day,…
Spring Sitting here with my first cup of coffee, looking out my office window, my morning muse turns to the predominance of spring green. Even the scar left with the demolition of the old house is showing mostly green. It's weeds of course, but, from here with a good mowing just two…
Why we celebrate Texas Independence Day I grew up here in Texas. I have never thought much about the why's of Texas Independence Day. I was surrounded by the Texas myth from birth. Some of my ancestors were here at the time of the Declaration signing. Many others arrived with-in a decade of the event…
https://youtu.be/KSkF2wGAVdA Ever since I heard her for the first time...There is some thing in Mary Gauthier's voice that I just can't get enough of. Tania Elizabeth adds another dimension. I have loved her playing since Paste first covered the Duhks way back whenever... I see they'll be in the Woodlands next…
It's been a bit over a week since the Great Backyard Bird Count came to an end. This was my first ever participation in the nationwide (continent-wide) event. I have to wonder though...Who told the birds to spend four days hiding. It was almost like they heard a rumor that…
Set up a Google alerton your own name and have it emailed to yourself each day. Then you'll see how you make the news each day. You'll see arrest reports, obituaries, retirement notices, political reports...In other words, if your name is at all common, you'll see the full gamut of life…
Thinking creatively has been a goal in my life for as long as I can remember. Now I've run across this article...Who would've thought it could be this easy? Want to boost your creativity? Tomorrow morning, pour some milk into an empty bowl, and then add the cereal. That may sound,…
Image via Wikipedia I was sitting out on the backporch this afternoon having my last cup of coffee for the day. I had walked out to let my eyes enjoy focusing on something further away than my computer screen. Sitting there, enjoying the relative quiet of the afternoon I noticed a very…
The one thing that really hit me hard on this trip was how green everything is this winter. After last summer's seared color scheme, the winter's green and brown scheme is a bit disconcerting.
Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument returned this hi-resolution full-disc image of the Earth from several passes made Jan. 4, 2012.
Image via Wikipedia It's funny what a change of a hundred feet can do to a view. For almost 20 years we have lived on this property. For all but the last few months though, we were living up under the oaks with open field between the front "woods" and…
I was scanning through this months Southern Living yesterday and happened to read Rick Bragg's Southern Journal on the last page...I was captured with the first two paragraphs... The obituary made me smile. Ellis Ray of Moundville passed away Saturday...he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather, who loved to fish…
For the last week it has seemed more like spring than the middle of January. But, the screen capture above says it all...70° at 9am on January 22 just isn't right. If this holds for another week, there will be no doubt that this January will be one for the record…
What? You missed it? Quite a lot of the internet was blacked out yesterday to give you a hint of what would be in store for all of us if these two laws get implemented. Do you want a better explanation? Try this one from Clay Shirky (Thanks to Seth Godin…
My wife and I were having a conversation about the weather/climate of our youth. What brought the conversation up was the fact that I was mowing grass in our yard on January 11 as the temperature approach 70°. I commented on the fact that when I was a teenager in…
