Friday, January 27
Cool And Cloudy Coffee Muses.
Tag: #coffeemuses
Thursday, January 26
Just Another Overcast Winter Morning Coffee Muses, But Cool
Tuesday, January 24
An almost perfect Tuesday morning Coffee Muses, just warm
Monday, January 23
Another Sunny Winter's Coffee Muses.
Sunday, January 22
A Bright and Sunny Winter's Sunday Coffee Muses
Saturday, January 21
Soggy Morning Coffee Muses.
Friday, January 20
Slightly Foggy Coffee Muses
Wednesday, January 18
Another Muggy Morning Coffee Muses
Sunday, January 15
Another warm and gloomy Coffee Muses. A mourning dove has decided to join the morning chorus. The disc of the sun is sometimes visible, sometimes not, through the rising clouds that were once heavy fog. There's a blue jay announcing itself in my woods. A blue jay's call doesn't match…
Saturday, January 14
Foggy morning Coffee Muses... It's loud out this morning. Birds are singing all over the place. And the fog seems to act as an amplifier. Somewhere, way off, I hear what sounds like a cuckoo...There's a slight breeze blowing cool, damp air out of the south, making it feel much…
Friday, January 13
Friday the thirteenth coffee muses... It's warm, humid, overcast again... Just about a perfect summer's morning except it's winter. As I sit here listening to the birds... and cows... and dogs... I can hear the sound of a train horn in the distance. All of those sounds can be heard…
Thursday, January 12
It's already above 70 here on the back porch. The sky is crystal clear and the sun is warming. The prognosticators are talking about how we could break a record high for today and tomorrow. I sometimes wonder what it's like to actually have winter again like it was when…
Wednesday, January 11
The sky is mostly clear... At least for now. It's a bit cool too. Not so cool as to require more than shorts and a t-shirt while I wait for the sun to clear the horizon. I watched President Obama give his farewell address last night right after I saw…
Monday Morning Coffee Muses, January 9
This morning we are back in that gloomy weather groove to start the week. Though, I must admit, the mid 50's feel much more comfortable than the mid 20's of a day ago. Who am I kidding, it feels better than the 40 degrees it was at sundown last evening.…
Sunday Morning Coffee Muses, January 8
Frosty cold this morning. Two nights in a row the temperature has fallen into the mid-twenties. The temperature on the other porch is still 29 degrees. It's a funny thing though, the thermometer on the post to my left is already reading 40 degrees. Microclimates... aren't they fun? It's what…
Saturday Morning Coffee Muses, January 7
It's so cold this morning it froze the internet. You have no idea what it's like to have a couple of grandkids who are used to on demand television sitting around with no internet connection... No Netflix... No Hulu... No PBS Kids. And, since we replaced the living room television,…
Thursday Morning Coffee Muses, January 5
Another overcast day to start the new year. It's so quiet today that traffic sounds from far away are prominent. Even the birds are subdued. Well they were, right up until I wrote about it. The prognosticators are calling for a high today of about 66. Then the temperature will…
Wednesday Morning Coffee Muses, January 4
High clouds, hazy sun, light breeze, cool temperature, a motorcycles roar breaks the morning quiet. Slowly the sound of the many birds comes back only to be broken by the air horn of the passing train. Steel wheels on steel rails make a subtle roar in counterpoint to the rubber…
Tuesday Morning Coffee Muses, January 3
There's a fine line the winter temperature must walk for this porch to be comfortable with the sun shining brightly. Today's temperature is flirting with the upper limits of that line. The temperature on the other side of the house is just now moving into the sixties, but here on…
Monday Mornng Coffee Muses, January Second
So far, 2017 has started off warm and humid. That's about to change tomorrow. It's windy this morning and I'm seeing, and hearing, more of the winter birds around the area you see in the photo. Today will also be the last full day of a full house. My wife…
January One Twenty Seventeen Coffee Muses
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…
Friday morning Coffee Muses…
It's still out here this morning. And the low 50's on the thermometer feels nice. As 2016 comes to an end I find myself wondering how much more craziness this old world can dish out at us... I suppose we will find out soon enough. Everyone keep your fingers crossed.…
A New View
The property behind mine lays along Mustang Bayou. With all of the rain we have had this summer, the grass had grown quite tall. This week my neighbor spent a day on his big green machine mowing the right of way visible from the back porch. Now, once again, the…
Another Cool Back Porch Coffee Muse
On another overcast morning, breezes blowing cool, I should be moving, but after the heat of last week I can't make myself give up on the pleasure of my morning coffee muse here on the back porch. Cup number two is down to dregs. Excuse me while I get a…
Monday on the Back Porch is Rainy and Cool
https://youtu.be/wOxW5YWqqdU The pitter patter of raindrops hitting the roof. Rumbles of distant thunder rolling across the land. If the Weather Underground is to be believed... This is what my week will look like. My backyard is in need of a cutting but my Deere is in need of having the…
I’m Still Here
Short lived rain, even shorter rumblings of thunder, flashes of sunshine in between... None of it stops the songs of the birds.
June 6 Muse – 2015
Saturday morning coffee... it's still dripping in the machine. The grandkids have been up and Sherry is already fussing with Abbie. We slept in and I already hear the work crew bumping around. Messing around with this little tablet I've been using has been an experience. I knew when I…
Oops, Where Did That Week Go?
It's Sunday morning and we are sitting here with the back door wide open. Listening to a light rain fall outside as the cool outside air filters in. It feels more like spring than the middle of winter. The low last night must not have fallen below 60°. The last half of…
Summer Continues
Sometimes it seems like summer will never end here along the Texas coast. Yesterday afternoon the temperature was pushing 97° according to the weather station on the mantle. I checked with the WunderGround and the heat index was almost at 110°. For the last few weeks I have been spending the early…
It Only Takes A Fresh Perspective
Lila Kerr was drawing her own blood and handing it over to a room full of health directors in Yatzaputzan, a village in the Ecuadorian Andes, as they prepared to test out a portable centrifuge created by a team of Rice University undergraduates. The anticipation was high as they pushed…
