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…
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…
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…
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,…
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°…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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°.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Wow, the temperature this morning has dropped into the seventies... after the past week it almost feels cool. There was some rain overnight and the sunrise was colorful with the sun hitting the clouds before coming over the horizon. The prognosticators are foretelling off a good possibility of more rain…
Talk about a blast from the past that is oh so relevant today... https://youtu.be/80_39eAx3z8 [Verse 1]There's something happening hereBut what it is ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over thereA-telling me, I got to beware [Chorus]I think it's time we stopChildren, what's that sound?Everybody look what's going down…
A cloudless sky greets me this morning. Sun on the concrete, warning an already warm world. Just a breath of breeze, a breath almost held. A faint tinkle of wind chimes barely heard. There's a sameness to the daily grind that is Donald Trump trying to break America. The schoolyard…
I'm enjoying the almost, but not quite, coolness of the front porch again. I have my native American flute playlist playing in the background... and strange as it may seem, the birds have moved in close to join the band. A chickadee sits above my head. Some fledgling woodpeckers, downeys…
Once again I'm sitting on the back porch listening to the birds and a distant train whistle. It's 74 out already, but the ceiling fans make it just right. There's enough moisture in the air to make it hazy in the distance. The birds today are very active. I guess…
It's the middle of winter but you'd never know it from the weather... Our ten day forecast looks like this... We're heading up to almost 80° in the coming week. I've been noticing a difference in our bird visitors in the past few years. I haven't seen any Crested Titmouses…
It's warm outside... warmer than normal for this time of year. Almost as warm as it is inside. And the heat is on. Outside it's 65º... inside it's 68º. And, it's overcast. The prognosticators have been foretelling of storms forming by tomorrow... and not the metaphorical storms caused by the…
It's frosty out there this morning. I wasn't expecting it... It's also pretty frosty in Washington. I listened to much of the hearings yesterday. What really came thru for me was the hate Republicans feel for Democrats... even as they accuse us of hating President Trump. Even as President Trump…
A cool, bright morning with clearing fog. Sadly, the fog in America politics isn't clearing. Between alternative facts and subjective truths, there is a fog of obstruction, a smokescreen of lies and conspiracy theories. With the President and his apologists screaming about fake news of their own admittance, Fox News…
Another warm, humid morning coffee muses.
Warm and foggy, a muggy start to a long election day... morning coffee muses.
Another not really cool, not really foggy, beautiful Sunday morning coffee muses.
Hazy, bright, and cool on the back porch for my morning coffee muses.
It's much cooler, and sunnier for this end of week morning coffee muses.
Another overcast beginning to a fall day in paradise... morning coffee muses.
For the third straight day the sun is out, the humidity is down, and the heat is back for my morning coffee muses.
The humidity is so high that every surface outside has a film of moisture on this morning coffee muses.
The humidity is up, the temperature's steady in the mid seventies, my morning coffee muses will happen indoors.
Another In a long line of cool, overcast morning coffee muses.
Cool, lite rain falling, thunder booming softly all night, morning coffee muses.
Cool, overcast, breezy start to a morning coffee muses.
The sky is gray, flat featureless gray, the air is cool and damp on the morning coffee muses.
High thin clouds are cutting the sun's heat on this morning coffee muses.
It's chilly in front of the fan as the sun rises for this end of week morning coffee muses.
The heat and humidity from earlier in the week seems to have moderated for my morning coffee muses... and mowing later.
It's perfect grass growing season, hot and humid with weekly showers... July's first morning coffee muses.
Oppressive humidity to start this morning coffee muses.
The rising humidity makes it feel warmer than it is for the morning coffee muses.
Slightly cooler, but still humid, cloudy with a chance of rain morning coffee muses.
Our prayers go out to our neighbors up the road in Santa Fe, Texas. The American tragedy is playing out in their homes today. We are protecting gun rights at the expense of student's right to go to school unafraid.
Not as cool, sunny, cloudless and heading for a near record again, morning coffee muses.
It's a bright but cloudy, almost cold, morning coffee muses.
It's nippy out for this early morning coffee muses.
Warmish For Early Fall Morning Coffee Muses
The Pledge of Allegiance is a mystery to me, promising fealty to a piece of cloth — and “to the republic for which it stands” — what does that mean?
PHOENIX — President Trump on Tuesday threatened to shut down the government over border wall funding, said the North American Free Trade Agreement is likely to be terminated and signaled that he was prepared to pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is anathema to the Latino community. So, taking…
There Is A House Growing Next Door Morning Coffee Muses
A Much Drier, Less Humid Start To A Week Morning Coffee Muses
Already Hot and Humid Midweek Morning Coffee Muses
Humidity and overcast skies for this Morning Coffee Muses
A Late Spring Tease Of A Cool Morning Coffee Muses
Overcast And Humid Morning Coffee Muses
Cool, Really Cool May Springtime Morning Coffee Muses
Well, they did it... Now I start dealing with my Republican Senators. As far I'm concerned my Repugnant Representative will have one very pissed of old hippy doing everything I can to see that he has to go back to fixing air conditioners.
Another In An Innumerable Overcast Morning Coffee Muses
Another Warm And Muggy And Overcast Morning Coffee Muses.
Cool And Windy Coffee Muses Morning
Here's the truth of the 2016 Election... Donald Trump was elected by 19.5% of the American People. 22% voted for someone else.
Another Springtime In Winter Morning Coffee Muses
Cool Damp Misty Morning Coffee Muses
Cool And Cloudy Coffee Muses.
A Bright and Sunny Winter's Sunday Coffee Muses
I find myself torn between ignoring the day and watching it unfold in a forlorn hope that my worst fears will be unfounded.
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 bad for my country... It's how bad will he be. When Obama took office, Republicans…
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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 millions of people vibrate like tuning forks to her rhetoric. When she was suddenly forced…
When I read this yesterday I wasn't surprised. Gov. Rick Perry today told the federal government that Texas doesn’t want $555 million to expand benefits for the unemployed in exchange for widening the program to include part-time workers. The Legislature can decide to accept the money, but Perry said the…
Life throws you that spitball. Your plans don't count because your plans were based on being allowed to work out your career and end it when you planned.
Currently (on Tue 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport) Clear Temp: 41° Dewpoint: 34° Wind: Calm MPH I woke up this morning at about 3:45 smelling something burning. Sherry sat up at about the same time and said something. We both jumped out of bed before I realized it was the…
Every time Joe Biden made mention of the last eight years, Sarah Palin would chastise him for looking to the past not the future. Look who's digging deep now. SEDONA, Ariz., Oct. 4 -- GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin opened a new assault on Barack Obama on Saturday, accusing…
Makes sense to me...