Fall…Well, it’s in the air.

When I wandered in to the kitchen for that first cup of coffee this morning the weather station on the shelf informed me that the outside temperature was at 70°.

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Saturday morning muses at the end of summer.

I began thinking of the wordsmiths I enjoy who make their primary living working on the farm. I haven’t made it a point to search these folks out, but maybe I should. There is something about the solitude of farm work that seems to allow the wordsmiths it produces to let their words steep and age before they commit them to paper (or electronic replacements thereof).

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It’s Friday, where is your head at?

Had I written that sentence in my earlier years someone would have answered “between the “A” and the “T” to remind me about ending a sentence with a proposition or

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After the storm that almost was…was…somewhere else.

Humberto Update: Wunder Blog : Weather Underground A surprise Hurricane Humberto ripped into Texas near the Louisiana border this morning, bringing winds of 85 mph and torrential rains to the

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Tuesday in Paradise…Or, Every Cloud Does Have a Silver Lining.

Our cooler, wetter summer sharply cuts West Nile cases | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle Along with greener lawns and lower water bills, this summer’s abundant rainfall is being credited with

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TGIF – There is talk on the airways of a cold front coming…

There has been talk the past few days by the weather prognosticators of a cold front heading for these parts. Now granted, at this time of year a weather change

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Thursday Shorts….

Jim Hightower | CORPORATE AMERICA’S “CHEAP” IMPORT ADDICTION Let’s be honest. China’s trillion-dollar-a-year export economy is based squarely on the country’s deliberate lack of humane standards. That’s precisely why our

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