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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Tuesday I was awakened by thunder in the distance. Once up the sun was out. It's 80° outside, 93% humidity. Just another midsummer's day. The tufted titmice are all over the feeders this morning. When they're not being spooked by a cardinal. My first load of laundry is in the…
Thursday For the first time in a long time the humidity is below 80% this morning. As a matter of fact The humidity and the temperature are both at 77. The front actually made it through and out into the gulf. So while the cooldown wasn't much, the lower humidity…
Saturday Just another morning in the heat of summer. Hot. Humid. Still. The final day in the months of July. Don't have much to say this morning... So I'll let you get on with your day... Y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray...
Thursday I had to walk the garbage bin out to the road this morning. It was quite warm and humid... To be expected this time of year. Makes me realize how spoiled we were for the last month with the overcast and the rain keeping the high temperatures just a…
Wordless Wednesday
Monday It's only in the seventies this morning, but, the humidity is at 90%. And as usual for this time of year, it's going to be a hot one. The predominant bird sound outside this morning are Cardinals. Last night, in the middle of nothing, the power blinked off. It…
Thursday There's still water standing in the low spots. When I took the garbage bins to the road yesterday evening water was standing across the driveway and the yard itself was squishy. So needless to say, the ground around here is saturated. It does make it nice for the waiting…
Laundry day, Tuesday Water is standing everywhere outside from the overnight rains. It's coolish at 78°. But, the humidity is at 93%. According to the weather underground in the last 24 hours I estimate we've had 2 and 3/4 in of rain... I would believe it. When the thunderstorm moved…
Monday It's cooler this morning. Only 77°. But the humidity is 96%. There's a breeze. So I'm sitting on the front porch listening to the Cardinals cheep, cheep, cheep. In the background the cicadas or adding their buzz... Each day has brought a decent amount of rain in the form…
Friday It's in the upper 80s this morning. The humidity is in the 90% range. So I thought I would step out into the shade of the front porch. There's a frontal boundary running from North Texas all the way up to New England. The radar shows quite a bit…
Tuesday It's just another midsummer laundry day here. But all of the cars are home for the day, which in and of itself is quite unusual. It's hot. It's humid. At least it's not overcast, though I'm sure showers will appear. All in all it's another good day to chill…
Friday And the rains continue... It's a pleasant 73° on the front porch this morning. And yes, the humidity is high, but what do you expect when it's raining. And the range just keep on falling. We had a small murder of crows on the front on yesterday. I've been…
Monday The temperature this morning is almost 80°, the humidity is above 90%. And with all that being said, my allergies are acting up. Par for the course for July and Texas on the Gulf Coast. I see the business across the road is not giving their employees a holiday…
Thursday The sun is out this morning, and it's warm, and it's humid. There's not much breeze blowing. But, the birds are singing. The cicadas haven't woken up really. And I just pulled the garbage bin to the road... The weather pattern this last week has been strange. Blue skies…
There's a light rain falling. The temperature is 75°. That's the coolest I felt outside in a month or so. A person could learn to really like summertime temperatures like this. Looking at the prognosticators foretelling a future weather, I see a change from last evenings Oracle like ramblings... Today's…
When I walked out this morning to take the garbage to the road it was muggy. The temperature was 80° but the humidity... My, my, my... The humidity was 93%. Welcome to my world... Summer on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. Is there any reason to not understand why I…
Wordless Wednesday
Back out front this morning. Another June morning that feels like it should be in August. The temperature is 87°, the humidity is 86%. In the state of Texas is still suffering through the unreliability of our electrical grid. ERCOT such an oxymoronic name for an industry backed panel whose…
I decided to step out on the front porch this morning. Where the heat and humidity doesn't feel quite as oppressive... Though the numbers are pretty much the same on both sides of the house. It's 77° out this morning, the humidity is at 90%. And, the temperature expected to…
Another warm and humid morning. The summer doldrums have set in. Mornings start out in the '80s while humidity hovers around 90%. It really is time to hang in the coolness of the air conditioned house. In my youth these were the days to enjoy that summer job at the…
