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I am sitting here with my last cup of coffee. The kids have caught the bus. The grandbaby has been dropped of at daycare. Breakfast has been cooked and eaten. And now I find myself…

One of the things I heard mentioned after the Supreme Court disallowed Trump’s tariff excuse was how Kavanaugh provided a “roadmap” of alternative legal pathways. I forget who I was listening to at the time…

Yesterday after breakfast I was sitting and doing what one does of a morning with a podcast playing on the YouTube in the background… I was listening… But just barely registering what I heard before…

When I walked out this morning for the bus run, there wasn’t a bit of fog in the air. As a matter of fact, there was no moisture on my car. A little over an…

When I walked out on the front porch this morning it was already 70 degrees and the humidity was just shy of foggy. Our house owl and guard pig were both on duty guarding the…

I wake up these days and start the coffee really early. Then I start waking people up for the day. My granddaughter is usually up when I get up at 4:15… If not she gets…

As I sit here this morning, before sunrise, thinking back on the past decade. I keep finding myself despising the contractor who organized the construction of the mess our country has become. And though he…

I am out on the front porch waiting for the school bus to pick up my two highschool bound grandkids. It’s cool and damp. But not cool enough to make me sorry I’m just wearing…

I’ve spent the morning lost in genealogy research. I’ve been working with the AI to do some things that when I did them manually used to take me many trips to the Clayton Library in…

for my granddaughter! The image above was taken about 14 years ago… Back when I could still get down on the floor to play. She’s grown quite a bit since then. We share a birthday…

Well, it’s been a long time coming… I thought it would never get here… But, today’s the day… And you know what? When I woke up this morning I felt no different than I did…

Yesterday I spent most of my day in New England (virtually). I started out in Maine the day before. Then it was a day concentrating on New Hampshire and Vermont. As the day changed into…

Yesterday the sun rose into a cloud covered sky. We caught a glimpse of it for about 5 minutes before it hid it’s face for the rest of the day, Granted, the little bit of…

Aging…As I approach another anniversary of my arrival into this world, I find myself dwelling on the concept of aging more and more. Pausing to contemplate an almost full moon rising behind a winter’s bare…

Yesterday we decided to pickup sandwiches from Schlotzsky’s. Every time I eat an “Original” the taste memories pulls their magic trick, and I find myself stepping into the original location on South Congress with friends….

It’s Sunday morning as I start this post… If just barely. But no matter the time I just poured what will be my last cup of coffee for the day. I can’t say I’ve done…

And we’ve lived thru , and most of us have survived, the first eon of 2026. This morning I slept in until all of 7:30am. God I love weekends. I can be the last one…

I woke at my normal ungodly hour and started a pot of coffee. I sat down at the laptop while it brewed. I had a message from an old friend so I worked up an…

The first thing I saw this morning was the current weather. I gotta say. While it’s cold outside this morning, it’s going to feel like spring by the afternoon. I got a wild hair today…

One of the first things I noticed this morning in the news was the number of deaths from this ongoing winter storm. The latest additions were reported as three young brothers from here in Texas….

Boy it’s Texas cold outside this morning. By that I mean for SE Texas is really cold, colder than normal. But considering what most folks around the country are experiencing, It’s just a balmy winter…

Wrap your hands around the mug, friend. You’re going to need the warmth today. The steam rising from your cup is the only gentle thing this morning, because the world outside the window is shivering—both…

Will Your Brew Survive the Blackout? Texas Coffee Emergency Guide 1. The French Press Strategy When the grid goes down, the French Press is your most reliable ally. It requires zero electricity—only a way to…

The Rainy Watch | Coffee Muses January 24: A Place-Based Dispatch Sound and Fury in the Gutters I woke up this morning to the sound of rain running in the gutters as lightning flashed outside….

7:52 AM. 62°F. The morning is starting out with a thick, heavy blanket of fog here in Alvin. According to the National Weather Service, we’re under a Dense Fog Advisory until 9:00 AM, and it…

Yesterday I was experimenting for the first time with Google’s Gemini. I asked it to research this site. It needed to come up with a blog post that would line up with my past posts….

OK – Sunrise and Sunrise As winter finally arrives I’d like to remember those summers of my youth…

It would seem the Iranians are in good company. Or maybe, they are just a member of the majority around the world. Trump tends to betray everyone eventually. I feel sorry for the Iranian protesters,…

I have been thinking a lot about the chapters and volumes of life I have seen. I realized something just the other day. My memories of life (so far) have been bookended by two major…

Could it be, maybe, that he can see the future? And the vision he sees isn’t very pretty… He will finally draw that “biggest crowd anyone has ever seen” for real this time. And they…

And it’s only the end of the second week! OK… Call me stupid… What’s the difference between the Venezuelan gang members that are “supposed” to be in our “blue” cities and the gangs of thugs…

January 3, 2026 As I sit upon my back porch, on this day when The United States of America has decided to go to war with The sovereign country of Venezuela. I have to wonder,…

Should we call this winter? January 2, 2026 at 4:45pm Just a couple of mornings ago we woke up to our first frosty start to a day this “winter”. My car was covered with a…

And winter won’t be visiting until tomorrow… December 28, 2025 You would think that after 71 winters in this neck of the woods I’d be used to the idiosyncrasies of our climate… But really let’s…

A funny thing happened on Christmas day… My youngest daughter was siting in the chair next to mine musing about whether it was too late to get a photo of my new grandson with Santa….

It’s been eight days since I snapped the last image. It’s the Saturday before Christmas. December 20, 2025 We are sending out fewer and fewer Christmas Cards these days. With the Christmas stamps I purchased…

When the lights went out just before sunrise this morning I was greeted with this “light” brightening my dark house. December 16, 2025 Luckily, the lights are back on…

The coldest morning this season. December 15, 2025

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December 12, 2025 December 6, 2025 Growing up in SE Texas, we didn’t get the Fall color show that most of the country enjoys. About the only Fall color I can remember from those days…

Eight Years In My Backyard I’ve been looking out my back window this past week and thinking fall was running just a bit behind. And it seemed funny as I have been listening to the…

It’s a week before Thanksgiving and the sight I saw walking into the local HEB was a strange overlapping of two seasons… Summer watermelon and Winter poinsettias.

October 11th 2025 It’s almost a fall-like morning. And it says a lot, that for us here in Southeast Texas, a fall like morning has a temperature of 75°. Needless to say, the ceiling fans…

https://youtu.be/YVhn1edWaDA?si=HfJvT2xOEzdYtJ6O There’s something happening hereWhat it is ain’t exactly clearThere’s a man with a gun over thereA-telling me I got to bewareI think it’s time we stopChildren, what’s that sound?Everybody look what’s going downThere’s battle…

The prognosticators are hinting at cooler mornings coming… I can hardly wait. But, today definitely isn’t one of them…

I’m still in the world. I am beginning to drag myself out of my summer’s hibernation as the mornings start to almost cool.