“Hello!” I said, as I walked across the lawn. Joe looked over and held out his hand and pulled on his blue stocking cap, “I can’t get this thing to stay on, today.” Irene looked up from where she was wrapping some freeze cloth around one of her exotic plants, and then she stood up […]
Tag Archives: weather
Time to Step Away
Wed, 10 Mar 2010, 05:12 PM (-06:00)
The sun is shining. The sky is blue again after a brief rain at noon. A breeze is blowing in thru the window beside me, a window that wasn’t functional a year ago, a glorious breeze coming in here and going out the back. A moment ago I was hot and sweaty. Now it is […]
My Grandmother's Cardinal
Mon, 8 Mar 2010, 08:33 PM (-06:00)
A Cardinal talked to me Sunday morning from the branches of a leafless tree. I was bent over, pitching forks of chipped tree branch mulch into the wheel barrow in a kind of meditative stupor when I heard it singing overhead. Tweeeet. Bit-twoo, bit-twoo, bit-twoo, bit-twoo. The sky was grey, and there was a slight […]
The Weather Curmudgeon
Wed, 24 Feb 2010, 08:42 AM (-06:00)
It’s cold outside today, as cold in Central Texas for the weather curmudgeon as it is in northern Ohio where he imagines his son might be trudging across campus soon. (Although the weather curmudgeon privately acknowledges that he hasn’t the faintest idea about his son’s schedule.) The weather curmudgeon stands at the patio door surveying […]
Precipitation, Science and Toyota
Tue, 23 Feb 2010, 06:52 PM (-06:00)
When it rains, my car gets wet, the inside and the outside. And after a while of course it starts to smell. This has been a problem for a while. Trouble is, we’ve just come out of a two-year drought, and by the time I figured out I had a systematic problem that the dealer’s […]
Wintery Mix
Tue, 23 Feb 2010, 09:44 AM (-06:00)
The weathermen called for cold weather today with a possibility of snow. On the radio (and certainly on the TV too?), they talked and talked about dropping temperatures and projected lows and the possibility of 4 inches of snow accumulation. The paper said it, too. In big block letters across the top of the metro […]
Meatball
Wed, 10 Feb 2010, 04:47 PM (-06:00)
I wore a NASA sweatshirt going out to dinner the other night. I’ve become quite a wimp for cold weather, and the night was nippy, and the sweatshirt was swinging there on a hanger before me as I pondered my stay-warm options — a plain grey pull-over sweatshirt with a NASA meatball emblazoned on the […]
Open Water
Sun, 10 Jan 2010, 12:38 AM (-06:00)
It was cold outside. Really cold. I stood at the patio door looking into the yard, holding a cup of hot tea in my hands, watching a trickle of water come from the fountain. The pond reeds were covered in ice. Two Mourning Doves teetered on the edge of the pond trying to get some […]