Personally, I think shoveling the side of the driveway your wife uses says "I love you" better than flowers....
Showing posts with label It's cold and/or snowy in Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's cold and/or snowy in Texas. Show all posts
Friday, February 12, 2010
"Happy Valentine's Day, honey"
Personally, I think shoveling the side of the driveway your wife uses says "I love you" better than flowers....
Great DFW Blizzard of Feb 2010
Have been out-and about taking pictures now that our record 12 1/2" snow event has ended...
This is the house across the street:
Looking down our street:
Diving board of our pool showing snow accumulation:
There are limbs down all over the neighborhood due to the wet, heavy snow:
This is the house across the street:
Looking down our street:
Diving board of our pool showing snow accumulation:
There are limbs down all over the neighborhood due to the wet, heavy snow:
Smowmageddon
Now that the pesky power is back on...
My sister in Minnesota would laugh but sometimes it even snows in Athens. Mom would kill me if she knew about this pic. She's wearing her Walmart hat/bonnet (one of those little plastic checkout bags)--after all, she had had her hair done the day before. This was yesterday:
I snapped it because I figured it would be the best we got this year having missed out on the Christmas snow that LJ got. I was wrong.
Some pics from today. First from the backyard:
And then the front:
The perfunctory Courthouse Pic:
And some Backyard Ice Art:
A backyard before picture might be in order:
My sister in Minnesota would laugh but sometimes it even snows in Athens. Mom would kill me if she knew about this pic. She's wearing her Walmart hat/bonnet (one of those little plastic checkout bags)--after all, she had had her hair done the day before. This was yesterday:
I snapped it because I figured it would be the best we got this year having missed out on the Christmas snow that LJ got. I was wrong.Some pics from today. First from the backyard:
And then the front:
The perfunctory Courthouse Pic:
And some Backyard Ice Art:
A backyard before picture might be in order:
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
How cold has it been in Dallas (NEW UPDATE)
Our pool system is finally up and running. No pool issues, no plumbing issues, no pump issues. The only casualty was the backwash value which malfunctioned and started the chain of events that resulted in our "frozen pond". The pool guys got everything fixed and the system was up and running yesterday. Yea!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
How cold has it been in Dallas? (UPDATE)
Last night it finally did not get below 32 and my pool/hot tub has completely thawed. Will be calling the pool tech guys to come check out my system to ensure no lasting damage was done before turning everything back on. I guess this means the great freeze of '10 is officially over.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
How cold has it been in Dallas?
We are over 90 consecutive hours of temps below freezing....not the best time for my pool pump/filter/heater equip to malfunction.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Golden State Economy v. Lone Star State Economy
A blurb from Reason’s blog:
One cannot say the same thing about California, in many ways Texas' polar opposite. You couldn't have two states moving in more opposite directions. One is unabashedly pro-growth and aggressive in courting industry, while the other seems content to spin an ever denser spider web of laws, regulations and red tape that is driving business out of the state. One state accounts for a whopping 70 percent of all jobs created in the United States last year, while the other seems bent on increasing taxes on business and individuals to pay for an unsustainable, out of control government that wants to be everything to everyone despite the fact that it simply cannot.
This doesn't mean that Texas doesn't face very real problems in the current recession: they do, as Brendan Case at the Dallas Morning News blogs here. But even so, the silver lining for Texas is that the recession will nick the Lone Star State while it gouges the Golden State. California's addiction to funding ongoing programs through debt financing, its permanent structural deficits on the horizon, its fondness for taxation, and other governance weak suits will really hamper the economic recovery in the state, ensuring it will occur long after Texas is off to the races.
One cannot say the same thing about California, in many ways Texas' polar opposite. You couldn't have two states moving in more opposite directions. One is unabashedly pro-growth and aggressive in courting industry, while the other seems content to spin an ever denser spider web of laws, regulations and red tape that is driving business out of the state. One state accounts for a whopping 70 percent of all jobs created in the United States last year, while the other seems bent on increasing taxes on business and individuals to pay for an unsustainable, out of control government that wants to be everything to everyone despite the fact that it simply cannot.
This doesn't mean that Texas doesn't face very real problems in the current recession: they do, as Brendan Case at the Dallas Morning News blogs here. But even so, the silver lining for Texas is that the recession will nick the Lone Star State while it gouges the Golden State. California's addiction to funding ongoing programs through debt financing, its permanent structural deficits on the horizon, its fondness for taxation, and other governance weak suits will really hamper the economic recovery in the state, ensuring it will occur long after Texas is off to the races.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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