I think we got the weather meant for yesterday. There was a flash-flood warning all morning. Fortunately we're well up the ridge from Shades Creek. There was sun towards dusk. Our high was 73F ( Read more... )

Hot today. Sunny all day. Our high was 90˚F, with the heat index at 98˚F.

Feeling better than I have in days,but I still didn't get much done. I have to find the groove again. I proofread and edited "A Season of Broken Dolls" for Bradbury WeatherI cleaned my office ( Read more... )

Sunny today, a nice change. Currently, it's about 81˚F, so an oddly cooler day. I do not fear autumn as much this year as I often do, but I am horrified that I came home to Alabama only to lose two consecutive summers ( Read more... )

Not losing heart, but also not up to my usual Earth Day post ( Read more... )

It's hard to think of much of anything right now but the catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil still spewing from the broken pipe five-thousand feet below the remains of the Deepwater Horizon. It's pretty much a given, at this point, that coastal ecosystems and economies from Louisiana to western Florida will be devastated. Now, I'm ( Read more... )

A sunny day so far here in Providence, though there may be thunderstorms this afternoon. Still, we were told we'd have a cloudy, rainy day in the mid-fifties, and, instead, we've gotten a sunny morning in the mid-sixties, so that's not so bad ( Read more... )

We seem to have made it through the whole winter without contracting anything vile, but now, as the spring begins in earnest, Spooky and I both appear to have come down with something unpleasant. Which just figures ( Read more... )

First, I figure everyone's already heard about the upcoming asteroid near-miss, and how over at the head temple of the Immaculate Order of the Falling Sky we've all been gnashing our teeth, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway.

Also, it turns out that African naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) are not only "cold-blooded" mammals, they are ( Read more... )

I've been trying the decide if humans are herd animals or pack animals. I'm tending to favour the latter.