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Tag: Blues From The Red Side Of Life
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2023 Day 223
Friday August 11th It's just another hot August morning in Southeast Texas. There are a few clouds floating around in the sky but there's not enough moisture to even wet your mouth. It's exactly this time of year that I start hearing the call of the mountains... And I guess…
2023 Day 215
Thursday August 3rd It should be no surprise to anyone reading this blog that I am a bleeding heart liberal. And as such, I find today to be quite disconcerting. The very fact that this country has reached a place in its history or a large minority of its citizens…
2023 Day 206
Tuesday July 25th "A combination of slightly cooler temperatures and slightly lower dewpoints means that the National Weather Service, for the first time in more than two weeks, has not issued a heat advisory or an excessive heat warning for today. These moderately cooler temperatures—mostly highs in the mid-90s instead…
2023 Day 195
Friday July 14th There is just a slight haze hugging the ground this morning. It's not thick enough to be fog. Basically, it's just the 97% humidity. And when you add that humidity to the dew point of 78° our temperature of 79° feels much warmer. So needless to say,…
2023 Day 177
Monday June 26th Well, it's another day that I won't be sitting on the back porch. Even with the ceiling fans on, an 80° day with a 78° dew point and a 94% humidity just isn't conducive to back porch contemplation... And look at that.. it already feels like 88°…
2023 Day 117
Thursday April 27th Happy Birthday Caitlin McKenzie Thirty-three years ago today our youngest daughter was born. My hope for her birthday is happiness! This morning has been cool and blustery with a bit of rain thrown in. The temperature is 63°. As I got out of bed this morning, distant…
2923 Day 77
Saturday March 18th It's another wet and chilly morning. A light rain is falling. The temperature is 45°. It's almost 9:00 a.m. and it's still dark and gloomy out. Between all of the pollen in the air and the temperature changes I'm really sniffing and snorting around here. Since I'm…
2023 Day 42
Saturday February 11th Winter has returned to Southeast Texas... at least what we call winter anyway. It's 38° this morning on the back porch. But the sun is rising into clouds... Yesterday afternoon I wandered around the backyard. The woods are still more open than they will be come spring.…
2023 Day 30
Monday January 30th It's another dreary winter day. The temperature this morning was 50°. It's damp... it's breezy... it's chilly. But, all in all, it's not a bad day for the end of January. Although, it does look a little too green out. Since the temperatures are predicted to stay…
2003 Day 7
Saturday, January 7th It's the beginning of what the prognosticators are foretelling will be a wet weekend. As usual, we will have to wait and see what happens in the long run. Though at the moment it's a pleasant 62° out on the back porch. While reading yesterday, an old…
2023 Day 6
Friday, January 6th Good morning... It's a bit warmer this morning at 52°, but the humidity is up and that makes it feel cooler. On this anniversary of one of the darkest days in our countries recent history... It's good to see the Party that instigated the insurrection is still…
2023 Day 5
Thursday, January 5th It feels more like winter this morning, 45°... It's still, the sky is cloudless. It's even a little chilly inside the house because with our heat spell since Christmas I've not turned on the heat yet... Not that the house is cool down that much with all…
october eighth
saturday Every week or so I get an email from my congresscriter... Every email has a poll at the end, This particular poll question has shown up fairly regularly. It really makes me mad every time I see it because I can't think of a single American who could answer…
The twenty-third of September
It's Friday As I was sitting here reading and contemplating the changing of the seasons this song came up in my rotation... https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c Ever since I discovered Eva Cassidy I have been in love with her voice. But, truth be told it's not just her voice that's so special... there…
The seventeenth of September
It's Saturday Yesterday's email brought the latest propaganda piece from my Congress-critter, as Molly liked to identify them. And Troy E. Nehls, Member of Congress for my district, as he does every week ended his MAGA approved puff piece with a survey... A bit of history here about his surveys...…
August the 2nd
Tuesday Oh my God I've missed her wit and insight every day since she has been absent from Texas. Back in the day I would print out every column and bind them into hardbound volumes that ran from birthday to birthday for the mother of a high school friend. They…
The 26th of June, Twenty Twenty-Two
It's Sunday Mary Shelly Once a week I receive an email from Maria Popova that she calls The Marginalian. Maria's essays are always an interesting hyperlinked brain teasing, twisting through time tying together of thoughts and ideas. This weeks essay on Mary Shelly left me with a profound respect for…
The 8th of February, 2022
Tuesday https://youtu.be/Da1TdpwTBlk I walked out before sunup this morning and it was just a bit chilled on the back porch. I wasn't expecting the temperature to be as low as it was after the high of 70 degrees yesterday. But WeatherUnderground let me know it was all of 33 degrees…
January 6th, 2022
Thursday - Insurrection Day - 1st Anniversary https://youtu.be/3wNEMKjwftU It's another warm and foggy "winter" morning... I wandered out while the video was rendering and uploading and met my new neighbor. He seems like a nice enough guy. He was out trying to mow a break around his section of woods.…
August the 13th, 2021
Friday the 13th This would be an auspicious day for my grandfather. He always claimed that 13 was his lucky number. It always seemed to be good for him. Let's hope, it's good for me too... And good for you. We're having another of those cooler than normal August mornings.…
August the 9th, 2021
Monday I was pulled from my slumber by the roar of lawn mowers in the yard. The lawn crew was busy at work early on this Monday morning. By the time they were done and gone It was 9:00 a.m. . According to the online weather folks, it's already 85°.…
August the 1st, 2021
Sunday We are 18 days away from the local schools reopening. And the numbers above are not good. And the Governor of Texas has ended mask mandates for any entity that receives state funding... Like school districts. As a mater of fact the Governor has mandated that masks cannot be…
February 21st, Sunday
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 the rest of the week is going to look like, at least according to the…
Electricity and the grid
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, especially in northern states, don't seem to have this unusual difficulty. But not much seems…
February 2nd, Tuesday
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 is in the wash, my second cup of coffee is gone. And it's not even…
Friday, November 13, 2020
The morning starts out warm and gray. An overall, overreaching, overwhelming gray to the world. Even the normally unheard cows in the neighbor's pasture are mooing mournfully. This transitional weather leaves a lot to be desired. Waiting for the change, anticipating the change even, frustrated by the slowness of the…
Thursday, November 5, 2020
I woke up, once again, before the alarm. There was such a glow in the bathroom window I had to rush out and capture the sunrise... boy, was it worth it! Now I'm back inside checking to see if anything has changed in the counting of the vote... looks pretty…
Friday, October 30, 2020
Another very cool morning with starry skies. I added a layer to my henley... my fleece hoodie is just enough to keep me comfortable enough to stay on the porch for awhile. The weather app is reporting a temp of 46 degrees. An invigorating temperature to say the least. A…
Thursday, October 29, 2020
It's too cold to enjoy the back porch as the sun lightens the eastern sky... A clear, star filled sky. The thermometer is telling me the temperature on the porch is all of 47 degrees. That us just a bit too cool to enjoy without breaking out the winter hoodie.…
