Image via Wikipedia There are a few reasons I subscribe to Cook’s Illustrated Magazine…One of the main ones is to read Christopher Kimball’s Editorial first thing when each issue comes in. More than the recipes,…

The logical outcome to the Supreme Courts twisted reasoning… Murray Hill is planning to run in the Republican primary for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, which would be pretty unremarkable national news but for the fact…

Talk about getting your head in a spin…Today I went through my daily routine of reading email as I listen to yesterdays “news” via podcasts downloaded to iTunes. I do this every morning, without fail…Coffee,…

Blogging or not. For some reason, I find myself unable to get in the muse on days when my wife is supposed to “not here” but she is…And thus yesterday was the end to an…

The Weather Yesterday, when I went through my daily email, this is what I saw from the weather gurus at My-Cast.com… Currently (on Fri 6:22AM CST from Pearland Regional Airport) Thunderstorm Temp: 70° Dewpoint: 64°…

morning haze; as in a painting of a dream men go their ways Buson ~ (via The Haiga Pages) The sun rising through the morning mist last week drew me out my backdoor armed with…

And it looks like if this keeps up, I’ll have more company than ever before… Shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops may be in order today and this weekend as unseasonably warm, spring-like weather is forecast for…

Image via Wikipedia Have you ever Googled your own name? No you say…Go ahead do it now I’ll wait… For those of you who answered yes…Did you find yourself? On what page? How many times…

I really hate to post this knowing what my friends along the Blue Ridge are going through, but… Today we hit 80° here with the sun out in a perfectly clear blue sky. I guess…

Over the past few days I noticed all of my Google AdSence blocks had disappeared. Also missing were some other blocks of code I had used a WordPress Plugin to place in my sidebars and…

The computer lets us approach in a startling demonstration of general-to-specific. The world becomes a continent becomes a region; a particular city surrounded by mountains; a set of streets; a house on a certain corner,…

NOTE: AS USUAL BACK UP EVERYTHING BEFORE PROCEEDING! (Only takes a couple of minutes!) Here’s how. Login as “Admin” user. Pull down the “Users” menu in administration page. Click on “Add New” Add a new…

All of the folks that are claiming that the Earth is and has been in a cooling cycle are being disingenuous…Using weather trends to infer climate trends breaks down when you watch the averages over…

It has been a misty, rainy, quiet day today. Nothing spectacular in the weather, just a slow drizzly, yukky  looking winters day. It’s been quiet because number two grandson and number two daughter went off…

Coffee Muses require solitude…Having a non-blogging significant other across the table from you as you wander through your morning routine tends to put you in a different place. Not a wandering the web, not a…

Thanks to Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen for the link to this…It really started my morning off right…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

…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…

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…

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…

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…

It was a cool misty morning as I poured a cup of coffee…Looking out the back screen the light looked intriguing. I grabbed the camera and slipped on the flipflops and wandered out into the…

We are now entering my favorite time of the year. Cool fall days in the low 70’s and nighttime lows dipping down into the 50’s. Skies so blue that if you could capture the color…

Another reason to change our methods… A ground beef recall for more than 545,699 pounds of meat has been expanded to states from North Carolina to Maine on fears of E. coli contamination. Fairbanks Farms…