The morning emails brought me this... Thu 8AM Thu 10AM Thu 12PM Thu 2PM Sky Rain Rain Rain Cldy Chance of Precip Moderate Moderate Moderate Slight Temp (F) 51° 46° 41° 40° Wind Chill (F) N/A 39° 32° 30° At this time it's 57° and that's down 2° since I…
I found out about these Blue Zones a month or so ago. Went on the expedition with them to a Greek Island (virtually), read the info on their website, was intrigued by...And impressed with the simplicity of the idea. So when this TED Talk popped up on my Facebook Feed…
It was a nice place to sit and think for an hour or two. Bayou to the south, woods to the north...Sun in my face, wind at my back. The temperature was in the low 40's, but in the sun that was warm enough.
"It is landscape in places, seascape in others. Fjords slice deep into the towering mountain islands while the low-lying islands remain barely afloat, waterlogged and pock-marked with thousands of lochs."
Happy New Year. The old year ended with a fog that hung on all day long. After the sun retreated we had an unexpected rain shower. The nice thing about that was we can expect little in the way of damage from the fireworks to celebrate the end of the…
It's Sunday morning, two days after Christmas, the shines bright in a robin's egg sky. It's cold out...Though, nothing like most of the country. Yesterday's rain has given way to a still, beautiful morning...At least from the point of view of the window beside me as I sit here at…
Sitting behind my chair, at the back door, are two pairs of my shoes...I put on one or the other whenever I go outside. The remarkable thing about these two pair of shoes is that one is a pair of hiking boots for those cold frosty mornings like I talked…
The top-10 coffee-drinking countries: Finland (11.8 kilograms per person per year) Norway (9.6 kilograms) Denmark (9 kilograms) Iceland (9 kilograms) Switzerland (8.2 kilograms) Sweden (7.8 kilograms) Aruba (6.8 kilograms) Netherlands (6.7 kilograms) Belgium/Luxembourg (6.6 kilograms) Bosnia and Herzegovina (6.1 kilograms) via Top 10 coffee-drinking countries. And I don't see the…
After fighting through the issues this week after upgrading WordPress I decided it was time to speed up the opening of these pages...At least as much as I can living here on GoDaddy with all of the other websites. Gone are the picture badges for my other sites. Gone are…
The sun came up this morning over a frosty backyard. Frost two days in a row...Pretty unprecedented for this neck of the woods. It's been a different sort of "winter" already...And it's only really just beginning. These frosty morns leading up to pleasantly cool afternoons with highs in the 60's...What…
After staying up late watching "Australia" last night, I woke up early thanks to an alarm clock reset to wake my wife on Saturday that I forgot to set back to a normal wakeup call. I started reactivating plugins this morning until the "white screen of death" as Cali called…
I deactivated all of the plugins on this site and things seem to be working again...I haven't figured out which of the plugins I had installed were causing the problem. But, enough of this for this day...I'm gonna go veg with a movie and hit this again tomorrow. For anyone…
Is it time to move my blog hosting to another provider? Intermittent problems with pulling up back-end pages in my blogs is beginning to get to me. For months I have had problems with getting the "Add New Post" page to open over at North Carolina Mountain Dreams...Sometimes it opened…
Updated my blogs overnight and this morning...My problems with NC Mtn Dreams seems to have migrated here now. I am beginning to be a little frustrated with the loss of functionality. Sadly, I don't know if I need to blame WordPress or GoDaddy. But after the reply I received when…
My backyard this morning... Fall is here... Tho' memories of summer days persist... Even as winter comes near. Blue kiddie pool... Cracked and faded from summer fun... Holds not but fallen leaves... A tree's memories of summer sun. The photo album is full... Electronic memories preserved... Photo screensaver on laptops...…
Houston Snow...Stayed north of us. Yesterday's weather event was a washout here at our place. As nice as it was to watch the heavy flurries fall off and on all day, the lack of anything sticking to the ground left us filling like a stood-up date...All dressed up for the…
Houston this morning broke a record with the earliest snowfall ever recorded in the city's history. Forecasters are still hedging their bets on the amount, but say the most likely scenario is 1 to 2 inches of widespread snowfall through the day. Some areas could get up to a half…
It's 9am and the snow is early...Rain started about 7am and it just turned completely to snow. Temperature is 37°F and falling. So far the big sloppy wet snowflakes. Should be an interesting day. Updates to follow...
Amazingly, it seems likely Houston will see snow Friday, the city’s earliest ever white stuff. Forecasters are still hedging their bets given all of the puzzle pieces that must fall into place for it to snow in Houston, but now say the most likely scenario is 2 to 4 inches…
The prognosticators are keeping the hopes of children of all ages alive across Southeast Texas... Weather forecasters are more confident Houston will see snowfall beginning Friday afternoon, but whether that snow sticks to the ground and accumulates remains a big question. “I would say right now it could be anywhere…
The outlook for snow on Friday is still in the forecast...With the following caveat. To get snow in our typically tropical clime the timing must be just right, with cold air arriving at the same time as atmospheric moisture. It seems plausible this will happen Friday afternoon. The National Weather…
My mom is very proud of being a Texan...And she collects birdhouses. Felder Rushing would be proud of her bottle trees and her use of all of the found "art".
We are spending the day with family...So from my walk yesterday... I hope everyone has a great day...
On my walk today to check the progress of autumn I ended up on my belly looking at the violet seed heads of the grass growing in our field. It made for an interesting photo. I was very happy to have the cloudless blue sky and a cool north breeze…
Walking my trail through the woods yesterday I was struck that the predominate color is still green... Once I made it to Mustang Bayou, the color pallet didn't seem to change... The temperatures this week have been great. My wife actually demanded the heat be turned on after our first…
...we've been having some fine October weather here in the middle of November. I love this season, when we get little junior-grade northers trying to push through, followed by three or four days of Chamber of Commerce weather -- no wind, soft light, high blue skies and temperatures we dreamed…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year. The firms -- the three biggest banks to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- will hand out $29.7…
November 6, 2008 One year ago today...Life took a turn. A new beginning. Like the photo above, a new day dawned, different from all of the days before it. On this day last year I went to work like any other day. My thoughts were on the weekend though. My…
I've been falling down on my duties as a grandfather this past month. So to play catch up here are two slideshows...First of #2 grandson's first birthday... Second, of #1 grandson's third birthday...
