Thundering and lightning-ing right now, but no rain.  Still hot, though.  97 degrees...

Texas living, I tell ya.

Weather aside, I'm told that scorpion season is fairly short and being as I haven't seen any in a few weeks, and since the last week of July danged few houseflies, ill take it. The fire ants haven't thinned out a bit though, and my whiptail lizard population has grown to where they're laying eggs on my little 4X5 foot porch. I haven't gone out barefoot since parking my little house here.

Today's wakeup call was an 18" juvenile copperhead sticking out from under the trailer. He scooted off by the time I'd grabbed a shovel, so now I've got a better reason to watch my every step outside.

I'm trying to "save" gas money on a fixed income, little progress so far. I've promised myself a trip to (H)umble, but budgeting is a challenge so far. I'll get there, Jaime. Sooner or later!

Meanwhile we're continuing the fencing project, still drilling and setting railroad tie braces. My friend has a dose of mesothelioma, so understandably we take a lot of breaks. Two worn out old dufusses in their later 60s, what can possibly go wrong? 

The PuddinFace continues to excel, 4.0+ and in 5 different brainiac honors societies and just received ANOTHER scholarship. And she has trademarked the PuddinFace name for a future business endeavor, at the time being a pastry/health food bakery.

Maybe this lonely old man will live vicariously through his overachieving daughter for the duration...

This morning I wore a coat because it was actually in the high 40s when I went out to change the water. Its almost noon and still only 69 here.  Dry calm and smoky, going to enjoy it, after 107 last Sunday, and supposed to be well over 100 again this coming weekend.

My favorite forecast so far this year - there was supposed to be a cold front this past weekend, one which the weather guessers said would bring some rain and make it "less hot."  They were partially right.  It went from 99 to 97, but the humidity went up, and it didn't rain, so "less hot" didn't really matter.

99 right now.

Facebook used to be pretty good about dealing with that, but I have heard they have slipped into indifference with account issues, now more concerned about correct speak.

This is the weirdest weather this year, I hope it doesn't carry into fall and winter.  Now we are getting monsoon season, not drought breaking, but have been getting afternoon showers once in a while, missing most of them, but keeping humidity up, 82% as I look now at 5:30 am, creating the problems with haying. We caught one yesterday afternoon about 5, looked like a small cell, about 2 maybe 3 miles wide is all, rained for about 5 or 10 minutes and dropped about 3/10 in that time, which was surprising.

Nothing that unusual about that, but the temps are still up in the mid to high 90s when normally the temps drop to 80s when the moisture flows up from the SW, and looks like we are heading for another 105 day flanked by too damn hot on either side this weekend.

QuoteWhat the heck Texas, I don't remember ordering your weather

Well, Honcho, I think that part of Wyoming used to be part of the Texas Republic, so maybe it's payback for taking it away from us!   

Bertha was pretty much a non event here.  We got about a 1/4 inch of drizzle and a some wind, but that was about it.  More 100 degree days in store next week.  95 here right now.

When I was a flying mechanic way back when, I did outdoor gigs at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and a bunch of DC-3 engine changes on the ramp in Tucson, Arizona.  Highest temp I remember was 120 in Tucson.  At White Sands, we all were issued a bucket filled with water to carry tools in.  If you left a wrench lying on a wing for a minute or three, you wouldn't be able to pick it up.

Dang, welcome to Texas, I guess.

Our heat is pretty consistent these days, only a couple over 100°. The humidity comes and it goes, mostly comes, but building this fence isn't a lot of work yet. We're still putting in railroad tie H-braces, but my "boss" has mesothelioma and has to take frequent breaks. I don't mind those breaks at all, I tell ya! A good portion of them involve a cold can of beer in front of an industrial fan.

He broke the drag link on his Kubota the other day, the weld seems to be holding, but the auger's on borrowed time till that part is replaced...

There doesn't seem to be anything I can do, including deleting the page. The password was changed out from under me, I got the email asking if it was me, and after I said NO all I got was a white screen.

It may be best to just start over, if I ever get the taste of this out of my mouth.

The instergram page was nothing really, I've never posted on it, but that's apparently where the hawn-yawk found his way in.

What the heck Texas, I don't remember ordering your weather, It was like Florida hot and muggy yesterday, where it rained it rained a lot for here, like an inch, or 2 in some places north of us, we got absolutely nothing. where it didn't the moisture in the air with 90% humidity hung around and clung to the smoke granted to us by Canada, so it was very hazy.  I had to go into town yesterday about 8 AM, it was about 75 or 80, but ran into a cloud parked on the ground, you could see it ahead looked just like a cloud that you drove into, for a few miles it was foggy, for a stretch of about a mile visibly was about 50 yards. It was surreal.  Then the heat came, bounced up to 100 in the afternoon, fortunately the humidity dropped down to 35% which while sticky for us is manageable. Today is supposed to 105, tomorrow 107 hundred something on Monday by which point I will be either a dried husk or welded to the air conditioner.   

The thing I hate with this weather is everything burns you.  I broke a sickle section yesterday afternoon, the tools were almost too hot to touch despite plastic handles just sitting there for 5 minutes. I made the mistake of grabbing a metal bar that was baking in open sun for hours and decided right then to drag an umbrella out and cover the thing and wait a bit to work on it. On the way to town, (because you know I break the only "special" blade section that I don't have on hand) I had to keep alternating hands on the wheel because it never cooled down until almost there despite the AC blasting for 20 minutes. My delicate nature just doesn't handle these temp swings like it used to.