Beautiful

It's amazing the difference a couple of days makes. A hurricane came through and on it's heels a welcome cool front settled into Central Texas. All this in the middle of September.

Hurricane Ike blew through on Saturday and pretty much was out of the way on Sunday and helped to pull the cool front down our way. For the past several weeks the temps were in the 90's for highs. Especially prior to the hurricane.

Sometimes it felt like we were in Arizona.

Yesterday the high was in the 80's. That's downright cool according to our standards; especially with that nice dry northeren breeze. The low last night was in the 50's.

Brrrrr! Chilly weather, but it's nice on the AC bill.

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Zoo or Zew

Not much of a post today. I've been busy with school stuff, lesson plans and such. We will be going on a field trip to the Cameron Park Zoo next week. So I was assigned the task of doing the lesson plans for handwriting. We decided that our writing for the week should center on doing research and writing about the zoo animals. FUN!

In the process of doing research I ran across something interesting. I was checking out the Cameron Park Zoo website. Looking at the General Information page I was reading about The Weather Factor. It was describing which animals may not be on display under various weather circumstances. As I read through this I came to a highly unusual weather phenomenon. Are you ready for this---"Lightening". That's it. "Lightening". Could it be that this is the phenomenon that causes the animals to suddenly become lighter and float away???

NO! They just misspelled the word "Lightning". Here's the link, check it out. This misspelling was current as of the date of this post. They may change it later; like after I e-mail them about it. And just think, the Cameron Park Zoo paid a company good money to misspell the word. I suppose they don't have a dictionary, or at least a book about weather.

UPDATED 6 July 2011: I checked the above link at the zoo and it now leads to a page that is no longer there.

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Life In The Fast Lane With Bristow

I woke up early today. We were planning to go to Ryan's this morning for breakfast and I didn't want to miss it. There were supposed to be bad storms rolling through this morning also. I don't really remember anything other than a few flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder. Chris was showing me the weather and she said that there are supposed to be a lot of storms still. The weather shows 100% chance for rain today.

While I was up I started looking at some You Tube videos. I found this one that fits Julie's new cat, Bristow. It's called the "Mean Cat Video". I hope you enjoy it. I did, even though the music is rap.

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