Hot Today, Better Tomorrow?

 Hot today but sometime today a norther with some strength is due, and the weekend and most of next week should be much more temperate and perhaps even rainy. I continue to do what I need to in the mornings, before the heat hits. 

A Hint Of Fall

 A norther is on the way, and it appears that August will close out in the best way, with a fine change from the heat of late summer. I'm at the stage of having to do a lot of pruning and cutting, simply to be able to move about in the garden. I'm already thinking about what I'd like to do this winter. Whatever it is, it will in no way be conventional. I hope for a mild winter. With global warming a reality and progressing inexorably, you'd think that a mild winter would not be an unreasonable thing to hope for. 

Already I notice that days grow shorter. 

Nice Morning!

 Pleasantly cool! Work done! Discoveries made! Quality of life improves with little effort and minimal expense! How gratifying that is! Brief power outage last evening with the usual cause, a drunk driver or drugged driver loses control and smacks a power pole. That happens a LOT. I kind of regret now that Lubbock went "wet". The City of Mums has become The City of Drunks. Too many bars, nightclubs, package stores and so on. Gee, with a church on every corner and most of them Baptist and Methodist, how can this be? My personal feeling about drunks has no element of sympathy. I would have to say that I hate drunks, and druggies as well. 

That's one reason I no longer drive after dark, at least not on a weekend, and not around tech, and not anywhere near the Depot District. Avoid that area like the plague. In the dark! In the night! At times when the drunks hold sway! Truly, the only good drunk is either dead or doing the steps. AA is a good thing indeed. In fact, Alcoholics Anonymous is the only religion this country really needs. And there are actually good drugs, like anti-depressants and anti-psychotics and drugs to control mania and personality disorders. We need a lot more people receiving treatment for mental/emotional illness. 

That Change!

 It arrived, with a change of light, a change of weather and of the very air. Strange change. I can feel it and even see it. It's actually a little creepy. 

I like it. It likes me. 

Yesterday's Torrents

 Yesterday seemed strange. Cloudy and very humid. Then light rain and after that a very, very, heavy rain with very strong wind gusts. Central Lubbock was under a flash flood warning. Could be more of the same this afternoon. Temps have moderated at last. August might turn out to be a wet month. 

I won't mind that at all.