Tag Archives: clouds
An Unusually Prolific Hail Season
There’s been a lot of hail this year. There hasn’t been a substantial amount of prolonged rainfall since 2019. We’re getting more hail than rain. It seems this was a good year to build the carport. You just never know what the skies are going to do.
Hill Country Sky
A Pop-Up Storm Makes a Brief Appearance.
It was 100 degrees. There was a little blip on the radar, a pop up storm that created itself over the town second closest to us. It was headed our way. It looked very impressive while it was building but it soon rained itself out and began to fall apart as it traveled. The cloud …
Sunset
Well, we were supposed to get some red hued northern lights all the way down here due to an extra strong solar storm. However, it was overcast both nights and there didnt end up being anything to really see. Instead myself and my neighbors have been looking at my second cousin’s photos from washington which …
Not the Day to Buy a Lottery Ticket
I was inside the house having a popsicle to cool down after mowing the lawn. I had just finished a strawberry one and got up to throw away the stick. As i walked across the room it was as if the light left with me, as if a sheet had been quickly pulled over the …
The Hill Country Sky
Light Rain
This year we’ve managed to have 1 or 2 days each week in which we get a fraction of an inch of rain. The plants are loving it. The landscape is lush and green. The consistent light rainfall is enough to sustain the vegetation indefinitely. However, the creeks are still bone dry and the Guadalupe …
Cooler Weather
October brought cold fronts which finally took the temperatures below 90 degrees. It was no longer 113 degrees in the afternoons. The chickens survived another summer. They could finally exist without their daily bowl of ice cubes and frozen fruits to cool them from the inside out. We did it. We made it another year. …
It’s Raining Somewhere
Everyone here wants rain so badly. we see on the television, mudslides in california, historical flooding in new york…water filling the streets and spilling over the railing or down the stairs like a waterfall into the subway…just so much water, an overwhelming amount of water. Texans want that. We would give anything to be flooded …