Some catch up from the last few weeks..
It's been Cruise, Cruise, Cruise and Birthday,for the last few blogs. So many photos so little time.
Been working and wrestling with inner things, new work assignments and stuff.
Travelled to Kansas City one week and and Dallas this week.
Also spent time in the garden out the back by the creek and watching the summer storms. These photos are taken mid afternoon, it only looks like evening due to heavy cloud cover...
This weekend it's going to be good olde Tennis again. More competitions for Timothy.
He has a bad eye, due a sand grain scratch on the pupil and a sort of twisted ankle but he soldiers on , yet the odds are not so good for a Wimbledon like win........Go Tim you can do it..
Well it's not quite summer but it's certainly feeling like it is.
90 degree temperatures in May and Storms coming through with tropical like rain and hail around us
I just love the storms. I know they can bring damaging winds and Hail but I'm fascinated with them.
I sit on the front porch , yes on the metal chairs, lightening all around, Thunder echoing all around completely taken in by the extremes and ferocity of the weather at times.
where I used to live in Epsom in the UK, the weather was mostly bland.
Temperate climate I guess part of the blandness.
We'd get excited about an inch of snow for a few days or a 10 minutes thunderstorm, and expect that the trains would all be delayed because of frozen point systems or leaves on the line.
Anyway we had two amazing storms here over the last week or so.
One reduced the temperature by 20 degrees within 10 minutes (85 degrees to 65 degrees), only to creep back up again over the coming few hours.
The other was over and hour of intense rain wind and thunder followed by clear blue skies. Loved it. Athough had to re arrange the garden furniture back upright and back into position again.
I guess a little nervous about the potential catagory 5 hurricane threats for this year. Hurricane season starts again in June.
It's a lot of work clearing everything up and tying everything down and driving 12 hours with 3 million other people, for what should only be 4 hour drive normally, only to find the Hurricane (Rita in this instance) wobbled headed north further East (thankfully for us). (see October blog for that excitement)...
I've spent much time in Tulsa, and Kansas City and never yet seen a Tornado, been to California and never felt and earthquake, live in Houston and never seen a Hurricane.
There are people who have been hit by lightnening lots of times, have stories about how they survived the Tornados, had to have roofs replaced and cars repaired because of damage from baseball sized hail. These things facsinate me and put fear into me also.
Last year Category 5 Rita bearing down on Houston with the projections for the eye, looking like it was going to go right over my house did make me feel somewhat nervous and dry mouthed as I flew back from the UK to help pack things up and evacuate the family.
The two previous hurricanes threatened resulted in me getting time away from the Project Management work I was supposed to be doing at the Texas City Refinery as they begain to shut it down to all but critical essential staff.
Both those times I ended up sitting in my back garden in a hot sunny blue sky day, catching the rays. Both those times the hurricanes veared off North East at the last minute.
Yes with Rita we of course ended up tubing down the Guadaluppe River in glorious sunshine on the day the Hurricane was suposed to hit, as once again a hurricane headed north much further east at the last minute.
However, I do wonder if it is only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Im hiring myself out. If you have a Tornado, Hurricane or Tsanami heading your way invite me around and we'll likely end up having a nice drink in sunny calm weather whilst the worst of what was to come heads away in a different direction.
Areas around us get flooded and I still have to put my sprinkler system on.
In one of the storms in the photos above I planted some plants hoping the rain would water them in but the storm went overhead yet we got no rain that time when areas around only 10-20 miles away had baseball sized hail
I respect the weather, especially here in Houston having seen some damage done, but it still amazes me and pleased not to be in the worst of it.
Not been much bad weather mainly wonderful sunny days . Here are a few shots from around the garden.
The Mocking birds half impailed on the Cactus were later found to have been sampling the inner juice from these new shoots. They pecked the insides out.
The cactus flowered beautifully again but I didnt get to the flowers in time to photograph them.
Macie is desperate to catch this rabbit everytime I she is outside.
Not only are they too fast and cunning for her. Im not sure what she'd do if she caught up with one. I think sniff it and walk off.
It's been Cruise, Cruise, Cruise and Birthday,for the last few blogs. So many photos so little time.
Been working and wrestling with inner things, new work assignments and stuff.
Travelled to Kansas City one week and and Dallas this week.
Also spent time in the garden out the back by the creek and watching the summer storms. These photos are taken mid afternoon, it only looks like evening due to heavy cloud cover...
This weekend it's going to be good olde Tennis again. More competitions for Timothy.
He has a bad eye, due a sand grain scratch on the pupil and a sort of twisted ankle but he soldiers on , yet the odds are not so good for a Wimbledon like win........Go Tim you can do it..
Well it's not quite summer but it's certainly feeling like it is.
90 degree temperatures in May and Storms coming through with tropical like rain and hail around us
I just love the storms. I know they can bring damaging winds and Hail but I'm fascinated with them.
I sit on the front porch , yes on the metal chairs, lightening all around, Thunder echoing all around completely taken in by the extremes and ferocity of the weather at times.
where I used to live in Epsom in the UK, the weather was mostly bland.
Temperate climate I guess part of the blandness.
We'd get excited about an inch of snow for a few days or a 10 minutes thunderstorm, and expect that the trains would all be delayed because of frozen point systems or leaves on the line.
Anyway we had two amazing storms here over the last week or so.
One reduced the temperature by 20 degrees within 10 minutes (85 degrees to 65 degrees), only to creep back up again over the coming few hours.
The other was over and hour of intense rain wind and thunder followed by clear blue skies. Loved it. Athough had to re arrange the garden furniture back upright and back into position again.
I guess a little nervous about the potential catagory 5 hurricane threats for this year. Hurricane season starts again in June.
It's a lot of work clearing everything up and tying everything down and driving 12 hours with 3 million other people, for what should only be 4 hour drive normally, only to find the Hurricane (Rita in this instance) wobbled headed north further East (thankfully for us). (see October blog for that excitement)...
I've spent much time in Tulsa, and Kansas City and never yet seen a Tornado, been to California and never felt and earthquake, live in Houston and never seen a Hurricane.
There are people who have been hit by lightnening lots of times, have stories about how they survived the Tornados, had to have roofs replaced and cars repaired because of damage from baseball sized hail. These things facsinate me and put fear into me also.
Last year Category 5 Rita bearing down on Houston with the projections for the eye, looking like it was going to go right over my house did make me feel somewhat nervous and dry mouthed as I flew back from the UK to help pack things up and evacuate the family.
The two previous hurricanes threatened resulted in me getting time away from the Project Management work I was supposed to be doing at the Texas City Refinery as they begain to shut it down to all but critical essential staff.
Both those times I ended up sitting in my back garden in a hot sunny blue sky day, catching the rays. Both those times the hurricanes veared off North East at the last minute.
Yes with Rita we of course ended up tubing down the Guadaluppe River in glorious sunshine on the day the Hurricane was suposed to hit, as once again a hurricane headed north much further east at the last minute.
However, I do wonder if it is only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Im hiring myself out. If you have a Tornado, Hurricane or Tsanami heading your way invite me around and we'll likely end up having a nice drink in sunny calm weather whilst the worst of what was to come heads away in a different direction.
Areas around us get flooded and I still have to put my sprinkler system on.
In one of the storms in the photos above I planted some plants hoping the rain would water them in but the storm went overhead yet we got no rain that time when areas around only 10-20 miles away had baseball sized hail
I respect the weather, especially here in Houston having seen some damage done, but it still amazes me and pleased not to be in the worst of it.
Not been much bad weather mainly wonderful sunny days . Here are a few shots from around the garden.
The Mocking birds half impailed on the Cactus were later found to have been sampling the inner juice from these new shoots. They pecked the insides out.The cactus flowered beautifully again but I didnt get to the flowers in time to photograph them.
Macie is desperate to catch this rabbit everytime I she is outside.Not only are they too fast and cunning for her. Im not sure what she'd do if she caught up with one. I think sniff it and walk off.
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