Saturday August 5th I was in no hurry to get up and get moving this morning. So here it is not quite an hour before noon and I'm still drinking coffee. As you can see from the pictures above it's hot, it's dry.. like most past Augusts the grass is…
It's another hot muggy morning. My weather app tells me it is 81° outside. It also tells me that it feels like 91° because the humidity is 83%. Whatever the reason, after I snap to my pictures and came back inside only to discover the third one was a really…
Sunrise is earlier and earlier each day... At least for another week or so, then it's spring forward. Temperature this morning is 41°. Cold enough to see your breath, but not cold enough for a jacket... At least not if you're just walking to the car. The birds seem to…
From the deep freeze of winter, to pleasant mornings of spring, the temperature this morning is 55°. The forecast high for today is 71°. That means by early afternoon the temperature on my back porch with the sun shining down should reach almost 80°. Life in my little piece of…
It's 10:00 a.m. and 38° outside. The one result surviving the rolling blackouts is that we're sleeping later each morning. I can't go on for long, school will start again on Monday. But even going to bed at a normal time finds us dragging out of bed at a non-normal…
Well it's late. Afternoon actually. Our power came back on at 10:00 p.m. on the money. And surprisingly, it stayed on. After making the rounds of the house and making sure everything was copacetic, I went to bed in my own bed at 10:45 p.m. for the first time since…