Very pretty day today. Lots of sun, mild in the morning, and warmish in the afternoon. One of those intense-blue-sky days with not a cloud in sight.
They said on the evening news tonight that this has been one of the coldest Januarys on record in this area, even though we haven’t had a lot of snow or ice. So it’s really nice to have the warm weather coming back for February – which they’re predicting will be one of the warmest Februarys on record in this area. Weird.
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| View from my front porch, near Lake Travis, TX |
I guess I say something like this at the end of every month, but it is REALLY hard to believe this is the last day of January. How has a whole month of 2025 gone by already? And whatever happened to those New Year’s cards I was going to send? (In place of the Christmas cards I never managed to get sent.)
Sunday is Groundhog Day, and the experts are predicting cloudy skies in Punxsutawney PA, so Phil probably won’t be seeing his shadow this year. Which would mean an early spring, right? (Yay!) But Bee Cave Bob, the weather-predicting armadillo here in central Texas, will probably see his shadow, since Sunday is supposed to be another beautiful sunny day around here. And that will mean six more weeks of winter. There’s a little competition going on among the meteorologists of the two regions, about which varmint will be the better predictor. I’m pulling for Phil.
