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Storm the Field

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  1. FIFY. Currently 97 degrees and won't get below 80 until just before midnight. Gonna be a bone-chilling 62 when waking up tomorrow morning. Temps in the 50's don't make an appearance until Thursday morning. In all seriousness though, I'm thinking about dragging out my knock-off solo stove on Thursday evening and drinking a few beers out by the fire. Might be another month until it cools down enough to use it again.
  2. IAH weather station recorded a 99 yesterday, which obliterated the previous record of 92. Today will be a repeat. Existing record high for 10/15 likely getting lapped by 5+ degrees. Gonna stay abnormally warm all the way to midnight, but north wind should really start picking up around 2 or 3 in the morning and cooling things off. Will be a blustery day tomorrow as the front makes its way south. Thursday looks like the real gem of the week, with morning temps in the low 50's and a much calmer breeze.
  3. Cavalry should arrive sometime late tomorrow evening. Hourly forecast has the temp dropping ~35 degrees from 6 pm Tuesday (95) to 8 am Wednesday (60). Record smashing heat until then. As usual, this front will only stick around for about 48-60 hours before petering out. Quickly back to a stretch of ~85/70 days. Not awful, but still 7-8 degrees above the average high and low for mid-October.
  4. Texans are 5-1, Cowboys are getting their shit kicked in at home yet again and about to be 3-3. The NFL is fun again!
  5. Heading up to my lease on Friday for a final pre-season work weekend. Got a few remaining repair/upgrade projects left to knock out before the season starts and of course top off the feeders. And what do you know, it just so happened to line up with the weekend that my MIL and wife's Aunt are coming to visit. Darn the luck! Man, with the way the weather's been going lately, I'm starting to get worried that it's still going to be daytime highs in the mid-80's by the time opening weekend rolls around. Unseasonably warm weather seems to have altered the feeding schedules out at our place. Game cameras have been picking up animals coming out way later than usual in the past 10 days or so. Feeders go off around 7 in the morning and 5:30 in the evenings and the majority of the camera action has been well after dark since the calendar flipped to October. Saw what appears to be a solid 8 or 10 a few nights ago at 10 pm. Big pack of hogs at 2:30 am...etc. Just curious, what time do the rest of y'all feed?
  6. Copy and paste. Blastfurnace saw us enjoying the pleasant mornings this past week and worked itself up into a blind rage. Will set new record highs today, tomorrow, and Tuesday by several degrees before this thing finally runs out of gas for a few days. Highs on Wednesday and Thursday will be 15-20 degrees cooler than Tuesday. It's never going to rain again though.
  7. LOL. Can never ever actually mention the price of stocks or commodities in this subforum, lest you be accused of jinxing it.
  8. Anyone got recommendations for an ATV repair shop in the Houston area? My brother and one his buddies on our lease bought a used 4 seater last year, and while it has been fun having it out there, it definitely needs some TLC. I'm hesitant to drive it around as much as I would like as it always seems to be on the verge of overheating.
  9. Imagine you're a 53-year old man. An account named "Liam Nissan" mildly mocks you on Twitter. Your goddamn Mom shows up, convinced the actor Liam Neeson is being mean to you, and tells the whole world not to pick on you because you're developmentally challenged. I'd end it right then and there.
  10. Finally went and got new tubes in both tires on my bike Saturday. Definitely planning on getting in a couple of rides later this week with the weather starting to shift more towards tolerable. Will be my first time on the bike probably since mid-May.
  11. WTI $77 and Brent back to $81, both of which are 6-week highs. Nat Gas briefly flirted with $3 on Friday, but has pulled back since to $2.75. Just can't seem to break out, been pretty much stuck between $1.75 and $3.25 for going on 18 months now.
  12. Dewpoints in the 40's and 50's for most of the week ahead. Gonna feel much, much better despite only being a couple of degrees cooler during the afternoons. Get out there and enjoy the mornings and evenings.
  13. Welp, guess I'm gonna get another Sunday Swim in this evening. Heat index of 94 at 5 pm. Every weekend for about a month now, I think "might as well hop in the pool one last time this year." Dumbass. If the forecast is to believed, one more record-tying day tomorrow and then we get a stretch of uncannily identical days from Tuesday until late next week. Trapped in some bizarre purgatory between Summer and Fall.
  14. Blastfurnace '24 not so much shutting down as getting dragged out kicking and spitting. Always fun to see the words "Record Breaking Heat" on the forecast for tomorrow and Monday.
  15. Yep. It was noticeably more swampy than it has been in a while today. Not ideal for heading out to the Greek Festival this evening. Gonna be drenched in sweat when I get home. Being the first weekend of October, it's always a crap shoot on the weather, but rarely ever still dealing with heat indices in the mid-90's. 3 more days of this shit, then looks like we get an extended stretch of low humidity, highs topping out at 90, and lows back to the low 60's.
  16. If I'm going out to splurge on a fine steak dinner, I definitely want one that comes with a side of corn niblets poured straight out of a tin can. Oh, and I won't be needing to see the wine list, just be sure to keep the blue powerades coming!
  17. We've got some Spypoint cellular cameras set up our place. Academy puts them on sale pretty often and they're decent photo quality. The app is easy to use and comes with 100 pictures/month free per camera. Subscriptions range from $5/month for 250 pictures to $15/month for unlimited. I just stick with the free plan and only have it set to take pictures for about 90 minutes following the feeder going off. Also have it set to low sensitivity. Otherwise you get a bunch of random daytime pictures of nothing.
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