Yesterday afternoon before we got busy doing our to-do lists, we paused for a few minutes on our back patio basking in the beautiful day.  There were only a few clouds, not too many, and the sun was a mild 79 degrees.  Truly beautiful.  As I stare into the sky thinking about how good the house looked after a marathon cleaning event, I noticed this one cloud pretty much sitting all by himself.  Since I like the sky so much I ran in and grabbed my camera.  The angle of the sun behind the cloud was just right.  Here are two shots of it:

Hopefully you all had a wonderful weekend.

p.s.  Question – Were you late for anything Sunday morning cause of the time change?

The last couple of days we have had some great weather for taking some cloud shots.  Now since I usually do not have time to stop and really focus on the shot you are getting drive by’s..  lol  Not to mention I don’t have a very good camera.

Related Links:
My Flickr Weather Pics

So a few months ago we set out to make the flower bed out front something other than an eyesore.  So today I figured was a good day to get it finished up.  Not to mention it’s not 1000 degrees out.  So I planted 2 plants (somewhat not even) **I’m not a landscaper** and filled it all in with mulch.  I have to say it turned out pretty good.

Here is a shot of it completed:

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Landscaping Project

I have been watching 4 video streams of Houston News channels today and they are covering the coast area and talking with people and they have been reporting flooding and storm surge already and the eye of the hurricane still isn’t close to landfall.  I think we are still 12 hours away from that.  I think a lot of homes will be destroyed.  So hence the title of my post, I can’t believe what some people think.  Some people that they have interviewed on TV had decided to just stay and ride out the storm.  I guess they don’t care that forecasters keep warning people that if they don’t leave it could be ‘Certain Death’  I don’t know about you but after watching this storm and all the reports about it, I would leave..  This storm is massive.  In fact the track it’s taken we are going to see above rainfall averages for our area and sustained winds to 50mph for several hours.  In fact they just issued a flash flood watch for the Dallas, Fort Worth area.

I know this storm would be FUN to watch, but not at the chance of losing your life over it.   I hope they really  decide to leave.  They still have a couple hours to get out.

Related sites:
stormpulse.net
wunderground.com

I really love it when you have certain cloud shapes in the sky and the sun is being blocked by these clouds and the clouds have this outer glow to them.  The other day when I got home from work, at least I think it was work, this massive cloud looked like it was on fire with the amount of glow that was coming off of it.  But as soon as I walked around the car and got the camera, the cloud moved and I just missed the shot by seconds.  Here is the result of the shot though:

As you can see I missed the shot, but it would have been a good one just a little sooner.

By now if you have looked at, seen or even read parts of this blog, you can tell that I love taking pictures of storms and cloud formations.  So this post is no different. lol

Last night we had a storm pop up to the South of us and of course it wasn’t coming at us, but with the sun starting to set, it made for some good pictures.

Here are my 3 favorites:

The other morning I was outside watering the flowers before I took off to work and we had some tons of rain and i looked over toward the east and caught the sun rising up through the clouds.

Here are two shots:

Yes I know they are the best photo’s, but wanted to share them.

Side Note: I meant to post this on Monday or Tuesday but the work and family schedule has been busy this week so here it is.  [my little disclaimer]

This weekend we decided to do some project work around the house since we actually didn’t have any major plans on Saturday.  Over the course of the last year, storm winds and erosion have pushed our back fence the other way and it had a major lean.  I talked with a good neighbor that we have and we looked at it and figured out we both could just do the work and save tons of money hiring someone to come out and do it.  So we decided that we would tear it down and clean out the post holes and then re-cement the holes and put the fence back up.

Fence Project 1

Fence Project 2

Hammer Problems

We started about 6:45am when it was getting light out and finished up about 11:30am.  It was so hot out.  Between the 2 of us we took down about 18 bottles of water.  Have to keep hydrated you know!

Saturday afternoon I had a soccer practice to attend to for about 1.5 hours and then after that Lou, our friend in our community group had invited some people over for some dinner feasting and then to finish up the night watching the UFC fights [#87].  That was a lot of fun, hanging out with friends and meeting new ones.  I had never watched an UFC fight before and wasn’t sure I was going to like it, but it was really interesting and fun.  The drawback though I was so tired and exhausted that after the second fight I was starting to fall asleep and we had to call it a night.  Overall it was a nice and exciting party.