Category Archives: Texana

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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Treebeard

Posted on June 4, 2010 | Comments Off on Treebeard

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It looks like Treebeard in Lord of The Rings, but it’s really a Cypress tree in Cypress Creek in Comfort. I think. Hoom, Hom!

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Rancho birdhouse

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

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Cypress Creek, Comfort

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Posted on May 30, 2010 in Scribbles, Texana

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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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Mr. B.’s bob-e-que

Posted on May 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Mr. B.’s bob-e-que

Mr.B.BBQWell, not our Mr. B., I don’t think. Unless he’s been holding out on us. Taken by TFG in his travels, on U.S. 67, between Glen Rose and Chalk Mountain

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More 107-inch telescope

Posted on May 25, 2010 | Comments Off on More 107-inch telescope

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Looking more like a giant X-ray machine than a telescope, McDonald Observatory’s 107-inch reflector inside its closed dome on Mt. Locke is one of the few, if not the only, modern telescopes with bullet holes in its primary mirror. I’ve heard and read several versions of the tale. This one pretty much echoes most of them.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Space, Texana

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