Me and the boy played a round of Armadillo Baseball this morning before sunup. Boy heard Bosco the Wonder Dog growling, and animal bodies slamming into foundation beams and fences and such in that way that indicates the game is about to begin. I grabbed the flashlight and we ran out to the side yard [...]
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Between 55% and 60% of the population in Richmond (my little town) and Rosenberg (right next door) are Hispanic, largely Mexican, given our relative proximity to the border. I like this, among other things because our area benefits from a cultural richness non-border states don’t enjoy. For instance: A lot of Mexican women insist on [...]
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They say all good things come to an end and, thankfully, bad things do, too. Yesterday a sorta big storm system swirled through Houston from out of the northeast and then blew on down here, too, watering the grass and bringing the night frogs back to life. It was sweet, especially on a day the [...]
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This morning I got the little tractor out before the sun had a chance to start baking everything. I took a cart-load of downed tree branches to the edge of the green strip just above my tiny slice of riverbank, and dumped them on the top of my stick pile. They will either compost down [...]
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God shined on us a few minutes ago, by raining on us. Very brief, but nice and hard. Dropped the temps from 102 in the shade to 95 in the shade. That may not seem like a lot, but hey, it was heaven to us, because it’s all relative and, relatively speaking, our weather has [...]
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We traded in our Brazos River for a much shallower and cleaner model over the weekend – the Blanco River about three hours west of here in the Hill Country just outside Wimberley. For the price of a good hotel room, we found a solid, clean and very well-equipped two-bedroom cabin with all the right [...]
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I believe the temperature has been over 100 in the shade here, usually for several hours at a time, every day since August began, and for at least two or three days in July before that. It reached 106 in the shade for an extended period last week, according to my garage thermometer, and 104 [...]
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| Today | Saturday |
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 Partly Cloudy 86°/66° | Partly Cloudy 86°/68° |
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