Tuesday, After Hurricane Nicholas https://youtu.be/RoF5aQIG_ck Hurricane Nicholas made landfall at 12:30 am Tuesday on the eastern part of Matagorda Peninsula, about 10 miles west of the small city of Sargent. It had maximum winds of 75 mph at landfall. The storm is moving about 10 mph to the north-northeast, and…
Monday https://youtu.be/c4ztBxxPtAA It's a wet, almost stormy morning to start this week. Way down south in the Gulf is tropical storm Nicholas. The prognosticators are saying TS Nick will come ashore sometime today south of us on the coast. So, well we won't be looking for heavy winds, the prognosticators…
Saturday, 9/11 https://youtu.be/QZgOoG-vLPg This morning I'm out on the back porch enjoying unseasonably nice fall weather. The morning temperature was 64° when I walked out. The humidity is a livable 84%. In the hour I've already spent out here, the temperature is risen 2° as I watched hummingbirds battle for…
Friday https://youtu.be/f5qwTaOLAo0 There's a pleasure in visiting the outdoors when both the temperature and the humidity meet in the lower 70s. And this morning I reaped the benefits of that pleasure when the temperature was 73° with a 73% humidity. I really do understand that this is just a preview…
Thursday https://youtu.be/_471EK9YNqs Stepping out on the front porch this morning was one of those "Oh wow" moments. The temperature was a pleasant 69°. The humidity was a mehh... 93%. But, still it felt extremely pleasant. Even the light of the rising sun has a different look and feel to it.…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/nFUMp0YgTO0
Tuesday https://youtu.be/C12iyMzql2o There's been a real change in the feeling of the world today... But it's only the weather. And though the humidity is at 97%, with the temperature at 72°. It feels like fall might actually be on the way. And looking at the prognosticators foretelling for the next…
Monday, Labor Day https://youtu.be/z8QJmdAeP3I Walking out on the back porch this morning it felt cooler. Though, truth be told at 78°, it's been cooler of a morning. But then I pulled up the humidity... And in the mid '80s that's enough of a difference to make it feel much cooler.…
Friday https://youtu.be/tI6tGQ0XbFg I walked out on the back porch this morning in the pre-dawn dark with stars shining overhead and lightning flashing to the south. Thunderstorms offshore, headed our way. The temperature in the upper 70s and the humidity in the upper 90s, it wasn't particularly pleasant in that pre-dawn…
Thursday https://youtu.be/ldw7w2wTBrA Stepping out on the back porch this morning after waking grandchild number one, it was 79° with a humidity of 97%... Summer is still hanging around. Now I sit here on the front porch after getting both grandchildren on the bus to school, listening to the birds and…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/kfAkZVAVUBg
Tuesday https://youtu.be/b8ctGQR0tho Stepping out on the back porch this morning before first light it felt like I thought it should feel on a warm and humid last day of August. The temperature was 79°, cooler than normal was still quite warm. It felt humid, but there was no condensation on…
Monday https://youtu.be/KfH_snpm05A Last evening I sat out and watched the sun go down while I let the GoPro run. This morning I played with the resulting video as the grandkids got ready for school. I have to admit, when I walked out there were some nice cloud formations to the…
Sunday I don't have much to say today. And I'll let the image above say most of it. Stay safe out there, protect your family and your pets.
Saturday Hurricane Ida I wasn't going to post anything this morning because I slept in... Then I saw this animation of Ida on Windy.com. I started playing with the video recorder and then tried outputting it as a gif... So here we are.
Friday https://youtu.be/ai9yfQc-S9A Last night about midnight Mother Nature put on another light and sound show. When I woke up this morning a light rain was still falling. And though the temperature was nicely in the mid-seventies, that high humidity was stalking the earth once again... When I went out this…
Thursday https://youtu.be/j99EFe07ZY8 When I walked out to the car this morning to run the kids to the end of the driveway for their buses the car wouldn't start. It had been acting like the battery was getting low and the starter was dragging so now it was time to do…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/EGzYPUwWxiU
Tuesday https://youtu.be/Bq5y3n-v8SQ The kids are on the buses. The first load of laundry is in the washer. I'm sitting on the front porch watching the workday traffic go by. It's warm out right now, not oppressively. The humidity is high... Just not so high that there's condensation on the windows,…
Sunday https://youtu.be/pjVwlHmwMd8 Walking out this morning was almost painful. The temperature was already 78 degrees and the humidity was 90%... Pretty much right where it should be for this time of year, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. The only thing worse than summers on the Texas…
Saturday https://youtu.be/CSGocrLas_8 It's another warm August day in SE Texas. No clouds in the sky, no rain in the forecast. And being a Saturday, the normal running around is required. Grocery stores, Post Office, and assorted other stops as required. Here's a video from a singer I discovered quite awhile…
Friday Happy Birthday Mom https://youtu.be/C9xHpeDXuIw My mom turns 88 today... Happy Birthday Mom! I'm still playing with the Quik app from GoPro. I'm liking the ability to turn a series of photos (and videos) into quick short videos without ever leaving the phone. Each day I learn a little more.…
Thursday https://youtu.be/mgg4t4UbXXs It's the first day of school here. And both grandkids were not as hard to get up this morning as I expected. On this first day of school their mother is taking them. So I don't have to sit out at the road with them. This years bus…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/SSPp3ynjC5c
https://youtu.be/9EEntShZ1T4 My wife woke me up early this morning because see smelted something foul and gaseous this morning when she stepped outside. After making sure it was not just a gas escape ay our house, I went online to check with the local Facebook Group... Boy was everyone upset. It…
https://youtu.be/2rLqs9b-EGQ I was playing around with the video editing app for the GoPro and managed to put this together from shots and video in July...
Sunday It's Sunday morning quiet on the back porch this a.m. . Even the birds are keeping it quiet this morning. The temperature is 75°. Unusual, really unusual, for this time of the calendar. Even the humidity is down a notch at just 92%. I have to admit, that the…
Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who kept one foot in folk and the other in country and was blessed with a soaring voice equally at home in both genres, died on Friday. She was 68.Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68, New York Times…
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.…
Thursday I'm finding it a bit unusual for the morning temperatures to be below 80 at this time of the year. I'm not complaining, Lord knows I hate the heat. And the humidity is high as always... Right now it's 78°,, and the humidity is 93%. Since it's Thursday, I…
