Pootie doesn’t live here anymore

99° in the shade today. 101° heat index.
It’s almost dark here and the temp has dropped a bit. The animals and I are stirring after a few hours of zoning out enjoying the synergy of the AC and ceiling fan. Doing some low-energy mulitasking, knocking out some laundry and dishes.  All while waiting for [...]

Sunday morning coming down video: I ain’t up to my baby tonight

Fell into this over @ Adrastos last week and have been dipping into it liberally since, for more than one reason, though climatology overarches all.
Here at casa virgo, the livestock are spread out in Dali-esque pools, the ceiling fans are rumbling, and I’m trying to stick to my guns and keep the AC off till [...]

Love thy neighbor. Do it now.

Our neighbors in the midsouth states need our help. They are reeling from the hellish storms of two days ago.
55 dead. More than that injured. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people likely homeless.
The news will only get worse.
Monkeyfister has some direct links for regional and local relief, and promises updates. Stay tuned there.
Don’t forget [...]

HSoW

Not like I don’t live in one of the warmer regions of the country or anything, but today was one of those cold and gray rainy days — I couldn’t get warm and all I wanted to do was go home and crawl back in bed with (as an old dyke friend used to say) [...]

Watching 93L

Stay tuned to Jeff Master’s Wunderblog tomorrow morning for an update on low pressure area 93L, currently dancing around the southwest coast of Florida.
The concern re this system is that several of the models show it aiming for the  Lousiana coast, thusly:

Even if it gets no stronger than a tropical depression, this [...]

Dean

Too early to tell but…damn:

Jeff Masters’ Wunder Blog : Weather Underground
and the
Tropical Storm: Tracking Map : Weather Underground

Then and Now

Today is the 37th anniversary of Hurricane Celia’s landfall on the Texas Coast. Despite its small size, Celia was the costliest hurricane in Texas history, due to intense localized wind gusts, tornado-like microbursts, within the storm system that left anything they touched literally reduced to splinters. Infrastructure, commercial structures, homes, boats and automobiles were demolished.
The [...]

And it dripped in my head and flowed into my brain

Rain
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can’t do a handstand–
I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just [...]

Variations on a theme

(Earworm alert)

Lemon Jelly, Nice Weather for Ducks

And today….. it rained. Again.

After a hellacious Friday downpour that resulted in all the major roads in and out of Wimberley being closed (some more briefly than others), we had a fairly dry weekend and most of the day today, then bam, a huge downpour to close out the afternoon. Casa de virgotex is well above the nearest [...]