Just testing the automatic sharing settings to see if I fixed a problem only I noticed.

Another warm and gloomy Coffee Muses. A mourning dove has decided to join the morning chorus. The disc of the sun is sometimes visible, sometimes not, through the rising clouds that were once heavy fog….

Foggy morning Coffee Muses… It’s loud out this morning. Birds are singing all over the place. And the fog seems to act as an amplifier. Somewhere, way off, I hear what sounds like a cuckoo…There’s…

Friday the thirteenth coffee muses… It’s warm, humid, overcast again… Just about a perfect summer’s morning except it’s winter. As I sit here listening to the birds… and cows… and dogs… I can hear the…

It’s already above 70 here on the back porch. The sky is crystal clear and the sun is warming. The prognosticators are talking about how we could break a record high for today and tomorrow….

The sky is mostly clear… At least for now. It’s a bit cool too. Not so cool as to require more than shorts and a t-shirt while I wait for the sun to clear the…

The temperature on the back porch is pushing 70 degrees this morning. There’s a wind advisory until early afternoon. Wind out of the south will be blowing a weather system north into the plains. I…

This morning we are back in that gloomy weather groove to start the week. Though, I must admit, the mid 50’s feel much more comfortable than the mid 20’s of a day ago. Who am…

Frosty cold this morning. Two nights in a row the temperature has fallen into the mid-twenties. The temperature on the other porch is still 29 degrees. It’s a funny thing though, the thermometer on the…

It’s so cold this morning it froze the internet. You have no idea what it’s like to have a couple of grandkids who are used to on demand television sitting around with no internet connection……

When it’s colder outside than it is in your refrigerator… All day long.

Brrrrr… Were the prognosticators ever wrong, it’s already in the upper 30’s out here. And, did I mention the wind? This weekend is gonna be screaming fireplace, and my woodpile is a little low. So,…

The Devil’s in the forecast…

Another overcast day to start the new year. It’s so quiet today that traffic sounds from far away are prominent. Even the birds are subdued. Well they were, right up until I wrote about it….

Do you see what’s wrong in the screen capture above? Today’s projected high of 56° is forecast to be “much warmer” than yesterday’s 81°. I do not know what has happened at the Weather Underground…

High clouds, hazy sun, light breeze, cool temperature, a motorcycles roar breaks the morning quiet. Slowly the sound of the many birds comes back only to be broken by the air horn of the passing…

Sitting in my easy chair, I looked up and noticed a bit of color outside..

There’s a fine line the winter temperature must walk for this porch to be comfortable with the sun shining brightly. Today’s temperature is flirting with the upper limits of that line. The temperature on the…

So far, 2017 has started off warm and humid. That’s about to change tomorrow. It’s windy this morning and I’m seeing, and hearing, more of the winter birds around the area you see in the…

Warning Political Rant Follows Is it the weather or the political outlook that has me so down in the dumps on this New Year’s morning?  As we begin this the question isn’t will DJT be…

2016 comes to an end just as dreary looking as much of the year has felt. For the record, it’s already in the mid 60’s this morning and heading north of 70 by afternoon. Ditto…

Friday morning Coffee Muses… It’s still out here this morning. And the low 50’s on the thermometer feels nice. As 2016 comes to an end I find myself wondering how much…

Testing the latest iteration of the WordPress app on my Kindle. The last time I installed it, it kept not playing nice with the memory card. But, I miss being able to post from the…

I seldom find myself rising with the sun… At least not since the fall of 2008. And so, I don’t see all that many sunrises. Be that as it may, this shot from just around…

Our first cool snap is here. The temperature is 66º right now and I’m loving it. And, as the picture shows, there is a bit of ground fog coming off the bayou this morning. That’s…

Yesterday was overcast and rainy all day. The low for the day came right at noon. That low was bracketed by higher temps, the morning hit 84, the afternoon topped out at 88. Way too…

But the thermometer isn’t convinced. I walked out on the back porch with my coffee this morning as the sun came over the horizon… the air is beginning to have that fall feel but, the…

The forecast called for partly cloudy with the chance of rain in the teens… I am now at the end of my second hour, and second cup, on the back porch. If not for the…

At least for Texas… the morning started off clear and only in the mid seventies. As I sit hear on my second cup, it is still there… Though rising. And, the answer to yesterday’s question……

For the past week the forecast has been for thunderstorms and each day we have seen them pop up and move past to one side or the other. Almost every day the sound of distant…

The property behind mine lays along Mustang Bayou. With all of the rain we have had this summer, the grass had grown quite tall. This week my neighbor spent a day on his big green…

I had a crew out the last two days working on my trees and clearing the downed limb. The new view from the back porch is much improved… it doesn’t hurt that the heat is…

… and I like it. It’s been raining for the past few days and the temperature has almost been nice. Here is the view from the back porch this morning… After running errands all morning,…

It must have made a sound… Right? Sometime overnight that limb on the ground broke away from the oak you see to the right. When I stepped it off, the length of the limb on…

Alvin Weather @ 11:00 am Tuesday 8/9/2016 For the second time in as many days dangerous scorching heat is forecast Tuesday in the Houston region. Source: Another high Heat Advisory for…

I walked out onto the back porch this morning and immediately noticed a difference. For one thing, my glasses did not fog up. For another, it actually felt… dare I say it, cool [caption id=”attachment_10892″…

It was late last week when Linda from The Task at Hand left a comment on a post here. In her comment she mentioned having traveled to the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge and seeing some/a wood…

I walked out this morning for my morning coffee and the day slapped me in the face. Yesterday’s cool had been replaced by our normal heat and humidity. But, sitting here reading my email and…

On another overcast morning, breezes blowing cool, I should be moving, but after the heat of last week I can’t make myself give up on the pleasure of my morning coffee muse here on the…

You have to love the Weather Underground… when they say it will start raining by 2:00, you can almost set your watch by it. So here I sit, on the back porch, the Deere parked,…

It’s a different kind of Mountain Dream…    

Morning on the back porch with my coffee, music playing softly in the background, reading my email and checking the news… I began to notice the one fluffy white cloud on the horizon wasn’t moving….

Do you see the joke? How about now? At 10:30 in the morning it already feels like 99º and the forecast is for today to be much cooler than yesterday. Southeast Texas weather in June…

After late afternoon thunderstorms lowered the temperature last evening, the morning coffee on the back porch was almost cool. At least while the ceiling fans are going. The two fans above my head have to…

After a scorching day of sun, a line of heavy thunderstorms dropped the temperature like a rock. For a change we are enjoying our front porch. We came out front because the storms were blowing…

https://youtu.be/nMjBCIviFGQ Summer heat has set in this week.Temperatures are pushing the century mark and heat indexes are in spitting distance of 110.

Stepped out on the back porch this morning for that essential first cup and the heat and humidity hit me full in my face… It’s so sad that it’s such a beautiful day. Blue skies…