Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[goats&moregoats]

Glad Mel is improving.
Skeeters were bad here, but they have declined. Deer flies are out in the pasture and absolutely drive me crazy when I am out there. Ticks(so far) are not as bad this years as they were the last two years. Those darn tiny flies are wicked in the pasture. Poor goats.

 

[animalmom]

Oh, @greybeard, you are much more important to us than anything Gilbert and Sullivan could compose. You are a walking talking compilation of all the FoxFire books. We treasure you.

Besides you are never stuffy.

 

[greybeard]

I was fortunate to be able to take in a The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston production of The Pirates of Penzance in 2015 with Alistair Donkin both director and playing the part of Major Genral Stanley.
Both the Major General song and Monarch of the Sea/When I was a Lad from HMS Pinafore are jabs at the British military's aristocracy that existed in the late 1800s, a time when it was pretty accurate to state "The sun never sets on the British Empire".

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Nothing but the occasional light shower here too. I scalped the yard yesterday - need some of that rain!

 

[greybeard]

Nothing but the occasional light shower here too. I scalped the yard yesterday - need some of that rain!

That moisture/low pressure system is still mostly out in the Gulf. Just seeing bands of it as they come thru.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yep... had a couple showers today but that's about it - so far...

 

[Latestarter]

Forecasters up here are saying the Houston area is gonna be like a revisit of Harvey with up to 6-12" of rain over the coming days. I hope some of it makes it up to me this time. Like you FEM, when I saw the forecast for poss rain all week I went out and started mowing this morning. Got the front and back yards done, the interior driveway area out to the road, and the entire front pasture. I expect I'll do some more mowing in the back tomorrow. Then just hope that we get some much needed moisture.

When I finished up mowing late this afternoon, I was feeling a little weird... So after hosing myself down real well to cool off I sat out back to dry and noticed I wasn't sweating at all. So I hooked up my BP machine to check and see what that had to say. All it said was "the batteries are dead" So I put some clothes on and ran to wally world to get some batteries. Filled the truck gas tank ($2.51/gal), as I have a VA appt on Wed, then airport trip to make on Saturday. Coming home there was a nice dark shower cloud producing a rainbow but the rain wasn't reaching the ground. It was in my general area. Oh well... Not a cloud in the sky around me right now but temp is down to 84° and there's a nice breeze. OH, I also stopped at Dairy Queen and had a large Oreo blizzard. Figured that with ice water should help keep the internal temp down and help me re-hydrate.

I hope to sleep well tonight. Oh, and the BP was 134/69 which is actually better than where it should be for me. I generally run in the 135/85 range. Pulse was a little high at around 100. With all the heat I soaked up today, I think I'll skip the jacuzzi tonight. I think I may sit outside for a bit with a large mug of ice water though.

 

[Mike CHS]

BP can be a tricky thing. I found out last year that if I let myself get really dehydrated my BP goes down to the point that is dangerous. I would feel the symptoms and come in to check to see it at something silly like 80/40 and I take meds for high BP. I make it a point to not do that anymore.

 

[Baymule]

Have you got over your cold? Summer colds are miserable.

It was cloudy this morning. We took down the round pen from the front/side and took it to the barn and put it up. Our son is visiting and he cut some trees and brush, he was a HUGE help! Been wanting to move it for awhile. Kept looking for rain, but the sun came out and all it did was get hot.

 

[greybeard]

Forecasters up here are saying the Houston area is gonna be like a revisit of Harvey with up to 6-12" of rain over the coming days.

It would have to rain 3x-4x that to equal a Harvey event.
South East Houston officially received 51+ inches during Harvey.

There are currently no warnings or watches posted for the Houston region except for riptide warnings to swimmers along the coast.