Category Archives: Rancho Roly Poly

Father’s Day

Posted on June 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Father’s Day

It’s telling, I think, that a recent Rasmussen poll finds fully a third of Americans either denying that fatherhood is important or being unsure if it is. It’s a hard role, and especially hard when dealing with a boy. The irony of that is that men are supposed to want sons. Yet daughters generally are easier for a father to deal with. But the whole thing about what people are supposed to want is a media creation and I, of all people, ought to know how phony media creations/constructs are. Designed entirely to sell. No more.

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Posted in Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly

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Patterns: tree bark

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Posted on June 18, 2010 in Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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Petals

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Posted on June 15, 2010 in Antique Roses, Rancho Roly Poly

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Cool spell

Posted on June 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Cool spell

It was supposed to be in the triple digits today through the middle of next week. Fortunately, we’ve been spared. It’s now expected to only get to 97 degrees this afternoon and repeat that on Sunday. Be cooling down even further by Wednesday to a mere 92. Why, yes, I believe we can get through this summer yet.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Rancho birdhouse

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Posted on June 3, 2010 in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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Rose petals

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Posted on May 31, 2010 in Antique Roses, Rancho Roly Poly

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Scorcher today

Posted on May 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Scorcher today

National Weather Service is predicting a barn-burner for this afternoon, in the upper nineties for the first time this year. It usually rains on Memorial Day weekend. See the infamous Memorial Day flood so many years ago. This year there’s none forecast until Tuesday night at the earliest. I hope that changes. We need it. It’s been an unusually-dry May heading into a normally-dry summer.

UPDATE:  Prayers answered. Ten minutes of steady downpour at 4:45 p.m. overwhelming the gutters and creating puddles on the patio and in the street. Dropped the temperature more than ten degrees, into the low eighties.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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