Before breakfast...

We got a kayak workout in before breakfast this morning.  Lovely temp, low humidity, but the wind was blowing just above 20 mph... it's definitely more of a workout paddling and pedaling into the wind...

Check out the palm tree in the upper left corner, and you can see what the wind was like.

Real estate in our part of the country has slowed down just like everywhere else, but there is still some new home building happening...

Yeah, I shot that image yesterday - notice the difference in the water.

We left the kayaks tied to the boat last night, since we anticipated using them first thing this morning.  Seems that the red Hobie with more flat surfaces on it made for a better bird outhouse (didn't think you'd need to see a photo).  We pulled the kayaks out when we got back this morning; the weather weasels are calling for a chance of thunderstorms by late afternoon.

So, with "play-time" done, I cleaned the kayaks while Joan started breakfast... I love the smell of bacon in the morning!  Today's project is to make fitted sheets for the v-berth and get the new (well, re-built) improved memory foam in there.  We may get a couple cool nights in the next week where it will get down to the upper 60s... might have to try out the memory foam.

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On edit: here we go again...

We've gone years with no mention of a tornado warning in deep south Texas, and now we're under the second warning in less than a week!  Hail from golf ball to softball size west of us!  Loads of lightning all around us, but the radar is showing the nastiest part of the storm is going to pass just west of us, through Brownsville.  Sheesh!  This storm is being pushed SSE as a cold front comes from the north.

"Cold front" is relative - the high today was around 85º; tomorrow, 78º is the predicted high.


The weather folks are changing their take on the situation minute by minute... the tornado warning has been dropped, but still plenty of lightning out there.  This front is moving fast, though; there are already breaks in the clouds to the NW.  A couple minutes later, and now the thunderstorm warning has been dropped, too.  That was all within a half hour period.

The image above is what the sky looked like during the time of the tornado warning... no color alterations, no enhancement.  It wasn't as black as the previous warning, but that sickly yellow-green color and lots of "rolling" activity in the clouds.