And I’m on the road to being  proud again…Ain’t that America?

The globe recorded its sixth warmest February since record keeping began in 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA’s) National Climatic Data Center. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies rated February 2010…

For some reason this year my wife has spring break off. It makes no sense, she could never get spring break off when we, you know, actually had kids off on spring break. But this…

Wind power generation in Texas is growing so quickly that it is testing the limits of the state’s electrical grid. The state set a record on March 5 when wind turbines generated 6,272 megawatts of…

I found this in my email reading today…It makes you wonder if the modern world is really all that modern after all. Apparently for about a third of the world’s population not a whole lot…

Welcome to the International Year of Biodiversity You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their…

Spring Gradual warming that began earlier this week is forecast to continue through the weekend, and by early next week high temperatures should climb into the mid-70s as warm, wet air flows inland from the…

This afternoon I finally started working my way through my Google Reader subscriptions. The sequence of stories brought me up short and I tried to capture a screen shot. Evidently I had left the laptop…

Today, Texas celebrates 174 years of its Lone Star Identity. This past year has given me a closer connection to this piece of Texas history. Research has now connected our family to Willis West. Willis West arrived…

Blue jays and robins are a sign of winter in my neck of the woods. Over the weekend a notion of mine, one that has been percolating around in this head of mine, kept roiling…

I tossed and turned in bed last night in a perfect storm of  tax related muses…nightmares…planning. I had a meeting with a CPA yesterday. I had arranged the meeting to try to get a handle…

Mr. Will, from his pontificating height, has this to say about Sarah Palin in his latest column… She is what she is, and what she is merits no disdain. She is feisty and public-spirited, and…

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…