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Cat Paradise
The shift in the weather is finally here. I was too exhausted to post when we had our first “Blue Norther”, but I’m back now.
In Texas weather does things in as big a way as everything else. There’s no longer enough “weight” coming from the gulf to turn back the northwest wind, and we’ve had several “northers” in the past month. The big ones came on Fridays, I believe—in the first, we went from 108 to 84. Since it was still sticky warm, we didn’t think of it as a norther, only as relief. Then a couple of weeks later, a true blue norther came through—and we dropped from 84 to 59 in a few hours. Over the next day or so, the evenings dipped into the upper 30s. The Hill Country had its first freeze, but we didn’t get any ice on our birdbath, so the freeze passed us by. We did take in the plants, though. The addition bathroom smells gently of leaf decay—need to remove all dead hackberry leaves in the pots.
Why a Blue Norther, as opposed to a simple Norther, you ask? Well, when powerful weather hits Texas (and it can be from the northwest or the southeast) the roiling sky turns a deep steel blue, puffs of white and pastel clouds floating in a sea of blue and gray. We call the northwest phenomenon a Blue Norther.
We call the southeast phenomenon a hurricane front.
The Polaris is working hard, the Kraken straining at its buttonhole repairs as it vacuums the bottom of the pool. W gets a lot of exercise scooping the majority of the leaves from the deep end. (The lot line has two large hackberries, plus we have those stupid photinias some brain dead person planted near the pool.) Despite my hand problems, I have gone out more than once to empty the skimmers and the kraken.
No, no official mulch pile yet, but there’s an impressive leaf pile at the far end of the pool! If W doesn’t get a mulcher soon, I may buy him one for the holidays.
Today it’s cloudy, and the breeze is a little cool—a baby front passed by, with that misty feeling that suggests if the weather machine will change just a little bit more, we’ll be a cross between Seattle and New Orleans. In some ways I miss the heat, but the utility bill is happier, and my system is starting to think Landscaping....finish the landscaping drawing so W and R can dig up the path!
The cats have loved the change in weather. They get to stay in their basket, nice and warm, sleep with Mom at night (and she's not as wiggly anymore, too!) Make Mom move the chairs around in the addition so they're in the sun in the afternoon...got to slay some paper snakes this week... The fans and A/C aren’t blowing cold air on them, yay!
It's a cat's paradise. They win the arguments with Maisie, too--she never roars out of that room and gives them hell. ;^) It warmed up enough this week that they’re sleeping in the addition again. But they’re not in as big a hurry to hide when I wake up and come to “de-cat” the addition and let out Maisie.
I love autumn. The light is finally soft, like the northern light I learned to paint by. It may hit 80 again on Tuesday, but for now, the Fall is upon us.
In Texas weather does things in as big a way as everything else. There’s no longer enough “weight” coming from the gulf to turn back the northwest wind, and we’ve had several “northers” in the past month. The big ones came on Fridays, I believe—in the first, we went from 108 to 84. Since it was still sticky warm, we didn’t think of it as a norther, only as relief. Then a couple of weeks later, a true blue norther came through—and we dropped from 84 to 59 in a few hours. Over the next day or so, the evenings dipped into the upper 30s. The Hill Country had its first freeze, but we didn’t get any ice on our birdbath, so the freeze passed us by. We did take in the plants, though. The addition bathroom smells gently of leaf decay—need to remove all dead hackberry leaves in the pots.
Why a Blue Norther, as opposed to a simple Norther, you ask? Well, when powerful weather hits Texas (and it can be from the northwest or the southeast) the roiling sky turns a deep steel blue, puffs of white and pastel clouds floating in a sea of blue and gray. We call the northwest phenomenon a Blue Norther.
We call the southeast phenomenon a hurricane front.
The Polaris is working hard, the Kraken straining at its buttonhole repairs as it vacuums the bottom of the pool. W gets a lot of exercise scooping the majority of the leaves from the deep end. (The lot line has two large hackberries, plus we have those stupid photinias some brain dead person planted near the pool.) Despite my hand problems, I have gone out more than once to empty the skimmers and the kraken.
No, no official mulch pile yet, but there’s an impressive leaf pile at the far end of the pool! If W doesn’t get a mulcher soon, I may buy him one for the holidays.
Today it’s cloudy, and the breeze is a little cool—a baby front passed by, with that misty feeling that suggests if the weather machine will change just a little bit more, we’ll be a cross between Seattle and New Orleans. In some ways I miss the heat, but the utility bill is happier, and my system is starting to think Landscaping....finish the landscaping drawing so W and R can dig up the path!
The cats have loved the change in weather. They get to stay in their basket, nice and warm, sleep with Mom at night (and she's not as wiggly anymore, too!) Make Mom move the chairs around in the addition so they're in the sun in the afternoon...got to slay some paper snakes this week... The fans and A/C aren’t blowing cold air on them, yay!
It's a cat's paradise. They win the arguments with Maisie, too--she never roars out of that room and gives them hell. ;^) It warmed up enough this week that they’re sleeping in the addition again. But they’re not in as big a hurry to hide when I wake up and come to “de-cat” the addition and let out Maisie.
I love autumn. The light is finally soft, like the northern light I learned to paint by. It may hit 80 again on Tuesday, but for now, the Fall is upon us.
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Peri is running around spastic fomr the cool as well, of course it is gonna be inthe 80s today :/
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