While we still look like winter, the morning temperature of 68° lays false to that claim from my eyes. It’s definitely shorts and tank top weather. And the AC is definitely on here in the…

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I’ve already opened the windows this morning. The outside temperature is 59°. Overnight the house held a 69° temperature. With the forecast high being in the seventies today, and lows overnight being forecast for the…

The sky is blue, the sun is up, and it’s 42°. Welcome to the start of the week. The grandkids have caught their buses. I’m back in my chair. I’m ready to get on with…

Sunday morning, sunny and 52°. Not a cloud in the sky. Just a hint of a breeze. It’s funny the only hint of green on the ground is next door where the grass burned. Everywhere…

It’s a bit cloudy out this morning. It’s a cool 53°. And there’s a bit of breeze blowing. I was laying in bed awake prior to the alarm going off. So after turning the alarm…

It’s overcast outside, 58°. Sometime today, the prognosticators are predicting a 50% chance of precipitation. From the looks of the clouds, they will probably be right. Once again the birds are celebrating the feeling of…

Sunrise is earlier and earlier each day… At least for another week or so, then it’s spring forward. Temperature this morning is 41°. Cold enough to see your breath, but not cold enough for a…

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The ground is soggy, water standing everywhere from the overnight rain. We’ve slipped back into our normal winter weather. It’s 49° outside. Not only does it have the feel of winter, it has the look…

It’s foggy out this morning. And with the temperature at 70° with the forecast for it to fall until tomorrow morning, it should be an interesting and wet day. The kids have departed on their…

It’s misty out this morning… 69°and damp. We haven’t seen but glimpses of the sun in days and days. Ever since that week of freezes, the Earth is visibly browner. The grass, the shrubs, even…

It’s 69° outside this morning. And the skies are cloudy. Birds are playing. Winds are blowing. What a winter we are having. I’ve been catching some of the political arguments going on. Can’t say I’m…

Ever since the grandkids went back to school after New Year’s, this has been my normal morning routine. At least, has spring approaches, it has now begun to be light as the bus approaches. The…

It’s much warmer this morning than it was even yesterday. First trip out to the bus stop it was 64°. It’s another cloudy day with a chance of rain. Even with all the clouds, the…

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Chee… I got a little busy this morning and forgot to post this. Not that I had a lot to say. Spent most of the day reading. Doing chores. Just another Tuesday in paradise… oops…

From the deep freeze of winter, to pleasant mornings of spring, the temperature this morning is 55°. The forecast high for today is 71°. That means by early afternoon the temperature on my back porch…

Winter has decided to move back north and let some spring in the air… The temperature this morning is 56°. It should be 70° on the back porch by the afternoon. That’s pretty much what…

It’s frosty out this morning. A cool 28°. A beautiful cloudless winter morning. The yard is probably the brownest I can recall seeing in a couple of decades. I can’t recall this many consecutive days…

It’s 10:00 a.m. and 38° outside. The one result surviving the rolling blackouts is that we’re sleeping later each morning. I can’t go on for long, school will start again on Monday. But even going…

Well it’s late. Afternoon actually. Our power came back on at 10:00 p.m. on the money. And surprisingly, it stayed on. After making the rounds of the house and making sure everything was copacetic, I…

Working on our third day of rolling blackouts. I don’t think they figured out how to make the blackouts roll though. We’ve had two periods of power each 30 minutes long one on Monday, one…

It seems very strange, to me anyway, that in the year 2021 power generating companies in the state of Texas can’t seem to figure out how to run as the temperature approaches zero. Other states,…

I woke up this morning due to the chill in the air in the house. Overnight, the house is temperature had dropped to 58°. Not bad, compared to some of my neighbors, one of whom…

It’s still 23° outside. The low tonight is supposed to be 12°. Our electricity has been out all day. We don’t expect it to be back on anytime soon. Guess I’ll have to throw another…

It’s 18° outside, a wintry mix off and on overnight. And that’s what it looks like out the front window by the door. The power went off about 2:30. About 6:00 it came on again,…

Valentine’s Day It’s chilly outside, and only going to get colder. We’re looking at some kind of frozen precipitation overnight. Weather underground just say it’ll be snow in the morning. We’ll just have to wait…

It’s 36° and chilly with a wind chill in the mid twenties. The countdown is on for the coming winter storm. Everyday that goes by, the forecast below for Monday night drops a little lower….

Baby it’s cold outside… 37° at 7:30 a.m., there’s a steady wind blowing, and a lot of moisture in the air. All day yesterday, where the forecast called for rising temperatures, that kept falling. Forecasted…

There was a low rumble of thunder outside as my alarm went off this morning. by the time the grandkids were up and eating breakfast rain was falling. It’s a cool, wet, winter’s day, heading…

Dense fog this morning has turned the world into mostly shades of gray. And with a moderate 63° outside air temperature, it’s really hard to anticipate the low 30s the prognosticators are foretelling for the…

Well I made it out for an abbreviated road trip today. Swung through the Brazoria Wildlife Refuge where it was the emptiest of bird life I have ever seen it. Then I had it on…

It’s another spring like morning in the middle of winter. It’s already pushing 60°. It looks like we have three maybe four days of this before went to returns. I think I feel the need…

Why is it that when it looks like winter it feels like spring, and when it looks like spring it feels like winter. The conundrum of Texas gulf coast weather… It’s bright and sunny out…

It’s not very cool out, just 56°. But it’s quite windy, and misting a bit of rain. The wind chimes on the front porch have been making a racket all morning long. The prognosticators have…

It’s definitely not chilly today. The temperature this morning before sunup was 64°. Clouds are moving back in from the gulf. The prognosticators are foretellingof a good chance of rain today and tonight… We’ll have…

It was a chill 40° this morning, with a bit of do on the car and the grass. And, a very, very beautiful sunrise. The grandkids are on the buses, the first load of laundry…

Happy Birthday Abby It’s chilly this morning, and there’s a bit of a breeze blowing, but it’ll warm up some by afternoon. Sitting at the bus stop, the temperature on the car dashboard is 44°….

And once again… Just because I can and I’m obsessed with her voice…… https://youtu.be/axfNDZXkUOY

It’s very bright out today. A cloudless blue sky. But still, it feels like spring, in the middle of winter. The weather app says it’s 57° out. While on the back porch, the sun has…

It really looks like winter out this morning, but it feels like spring. It’s 66°, heading for the mid-70s. There’s a 40% chance of rain according to the diagnosticators. Once again I slept in way…

Walking out this morning to sit with the grandkids waiting for the school bus, the moon was impressive as it set to the west. Last evening, after watching the fox eat on the back porch,…

This one’s for you Linda.

It’s nippy outside this morning, 42°. All of the color in the sunrise is to the north, so my pictures don’t show it. There are some individual crows out and about this morning, cawing as…

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