Spotify had decided that the "daylist" for me this morning was "cowboy country western swing saturday early morning" and at that precise moment, this was the song:"Texas in My Soul."
January 24, 2026
We made it to the sunrise vantage point at 7:26, with the temperature at minus 15° (the windless wind chill also minus 15°).
Meade got his video:
That was 6 minutes after the official sunrise time, but the sun did not pop, and we made it back to the car and over to Whole Foods, where we were the first customers, slipping in as the door was unlocked.With a trunk full of things I feel RFK Jr. would approve of, we headed back home, eastward, and — at 8:26 — experienced a double sunrise:Spotify had decided that the "daylist" for me this morning was "cowboy country western swing saturday early morning" and at that precise moment, this was the song:"Texas in My Soul."
Spotify had decided that the "daylist" for me this morning was "cowboy country western swing saturday early morning" and at that precise moment, this was the song:"Texas in My Soul."
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Got down to -10 below here in Southeast Michigan. I don't have a basement, but a crawl space and I stupidly didn't let the cold water line closest to the outside run overnight so now I have a frozen tub and toilet line. Going to take a while to thaw that out!
I'm a Texan and transplant too! Great tune!
Ye Haw! We are driving our Pleasure Way 22' 9" RV to Texas in April. Great State Parks, Big Bend Nat Monument and State Park and other places in the area. And Texas is a big area. Three weeks on the road - long enough to enjoy each other's company but not so long as to seek out divorce attorneys.
The weather here in Placitas, NM is rain. We are at the base of a 10K mountain and the snow is stopping less than a mile from the house. In Albuquerque, they shut down office buildings at 3 PM yesterday-and there wasn't even rain anywhere near the city. Ridiculous. My buddy in St Louis tells me they are expecting 13 inches of snow but no ice storms. I do not miss that weather.
This is crap. I was promised global warming.
Ironically, Tex Williams was from Illinois.
Western swing! The perfect soundtrack for blowin' up Nazi panzers and flaming Jap Zeros.
"Only two things come outta texas - steer and queers." - I guess Sargent Hartman got that wrong.
Tex Williams was from Illinois.
And Sam Houston was from Virginia. Ya'll ain't born into the Texas religion; ya gotta get converted.
As the bumper sticker says, I wasn't born in Texas* but I got here as fast as I could!
Even my southern Californian husband now feels more at home here than in his hometown. Our two Texas-born children are glad to be from here - one already has settled here and the other wants to move here if he can find an engineering job after graduation. (Our non-Texan kid has similarly returned to the land of his birth, Seattle, which I worry about because it doesn't seem to be very good for his spirit, but he says he's happier there than anywhere else.)
* I'm Wisconsonian by birth, La Crosse specifically, but I never lived there past the age of 1 when my dad returned from Vietnam. Still lots of family there, with an annual reunion in Baileys Harbor over every 4th of July weekend. I like Wisconsin, and I like being from there, but I feel more Texan than anything else these days.
What is the music on Meade's video?
Good luck this weekend, everyone.
It's going to be 84° today in Sarasota. Our invite is always there.
My wife and I will be going to the sunset on the Gulf this evening. From the sunrise on the frozen lake in Wisconsin, to the sunset along the warm south Florida Gulf.
It's a big country.
Meade's music is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLHKUtcFg4
Another ICE shooting. Video in X of multiple ICE agents wrestling man to the ground, when he was on the ground still being held down by multiple ICE agents one agent point blank shoots him. So how are they/you folks going to spin this one?
"As the bumper sticker says, I wasn't born in Texas* but I got here as fast as I could!"
I wasn't born in Texas, but I was conceived there.
Yesterday, the "daylist" Spotify gave me was "soft rock coastal grandmother friday early morning."
Stuff like "Harvest Moon" (Neil Young) and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" (Elton John). It was nice.
I've already got another "daylist" from Spotify. It's no longer "early morning" but "morning" — "traditional pop adult standards saturday morning." This has 2 versions of "Danke Schoen" along with Johnnie Ray's "Cry" and Roy Orbison's "Dream." I can accept that nudge.
@Inga Are you expressing empathy or exulting at an exciting opportunity?
Don't you get accosted by people who know where you will be every morning? I don't even tell myself where I'll be tomorrow.
Don't have to spin it. Just wait for the facts to come out. That's what decent people do.
I miss Whole Foods. I know people like to snark about it but it’s a good store. In NYC, it was no more expensive than anywhere else and often cheaper if you had Amazon Prime. We were at -12 here but now about -8. It’s sunny, so it’s nice looking outside.
Jamie - I think we’ve discussed…I’m over in Egg Harbor. 4th of July is one of my favorite times here. I like the crowds, the parades, the fireworks, the music. I think we have one more year to party at The Alpine.
Althouse…
How is it possible that you would even ask such a question. That’s not a good reflection on you. Seriously what is wrong with you? Have you sunk to the level of the majority of your commenters? Your own lack of empathy is on display, don’t accuse others.
Quite excited!
Trying to shoot a border patrolman will end badly
TheStormHasArrived
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President Trump has been calling out lying politicians for decades.
This man never takes bullshit.
https://x.com/catturd2/status/2015095626573238607?s=20
“ we made it back to the car and over to Whole Foods”
…where I bought me some corn for poppin’
Haha I like how Dinga comes and posts an inflammatory comment with no links and then gets called out by our hostess for her past behavior and gets offended. Can't make it up!
Now what Dinga? https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2015091985153929274
I pulled off something yesterday that I have never accomplished before. I'm trying to get rid of a few holiday pounds, but I had to go to Whole Foods to return an Amazon purchase. I went in, dropped of the package, walked the whole store, and then left without buying any food. I now think I could withstand the harshest water boarding without giving up any secrets.
Inga doesn't like having her motives questioned.
Used to be, only Hurricanes had names. Exposure to hurricanes was baked into insurance rates for your location.
Even then, I was taxed about the same as property owners on the beach. This in spite of being 10 miles from the beach and 30 ft above sea level. It's what insurance companies do.
Then 'Climate Change" came along and The Eye Candy and Clowns and Nerds reporting the weather on TV morphed into Divas and Shamans of Doom and the insuraance industry caught the scent of Real Money.
Whether it was the people counting eyeballs or $$$$, I can't say but "Name That Storm" became the Mother Lode.
Now, everything from cold fronts, thunderstorms, and dense fogs gets a name. Bottom line - if it's a named storm, i.e., "Susie" and not Mother Nature who blows your roof off, your insurance deductible is no longer $1,500, it's probably more like $15,000 +
To digress -
Names are powerful things. Just ask any nameless "other half" now known only as "honey" or "sweetie". And, I wonder if the number of abortions would drop, it the woman was required to fill out a form naming the unborn - before the procedure.
a href= https://x.com/reallyamerican1/status/2015095324734374263?s=61>Video of shooting
I didn’t want to post a link to the video because it’s graphic. But it appears that you people need to see it for yourselves. And the man was unarmed. He had a holstered gun that was taken away from him BEFORE they shot him.
Well, enjoy your popcorn Meade. It’s just another bad guy being shot by the good heroes, right?
We know she lies 'much like breathing' its only which ornament is used
Video of ICE shooting another man
Next hurricane: "Bloviate (Blowy) McBlowhard" III
You cheered charlie kirks murderer, you should be silent but uou wont be
Closeup of victim’s gun being taken out of its waist holder, then he was shot, unarmed.
Don’t let me stop the celebrations of yet another life being taken, carry on.
I can't make any sense out of that video, and I'm a combat veteran, a 28 year LEO, and a former rugby player. And I'm watching it from outside the ruck, in the comfort of my living room. And I watched it four times.
Now try to make sense of it while you're in it, in the cold, and you can't stop the video or re-run it. And if you get it wrong, you go to prison. Screw that. Eggshell skull theory - you resist the police, bad things may happen to you. CC, JSM
@Inga You didn't answer the question asked, and we all know why, so, fine, that makes it a rhetorical question.
There is no love for the immigrant, only hatred for those who are aggravated by the immigrant.
“ Don’t let me stop the celebrations of yet another life being taken, carry on.”
No one is celebrating, Inga. Where is it being reported that the person’s life “has been taken”? If he is dead, it’s a tragedy. If you, Inga, are spreading unverified information with intent to incite, then you, Inga, should be arrested, held, and charged.
Temps dropping in Dallas, sleet stopped, so husband and I went for a walk. I’m suited up in ski stuff, but man, my face and hands froze. 25 degrees. Thinking about Althouse in minus whatever. I blame my indolent Mediterranean stock, which cannot compete with her Northern European/pioneer/willa cather material. You are one hardy granny.
"Meade's music is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLHKUtcFg4"
Thank you!
I am a Texan by birth, a Floridian by choice, an American by the grace of God.
Speaking of Storm Fern, I had an Aint Fern, my dad’s older sister, who passed away some years ago. No, that’s not a misspelling, it’s the West Texas pronunciation of Aunt. My Texas accent was buffed off by living in the Midwest from the age of 8 to 21.
Whole Foods had some good produce on sale this week. Avocados, Sumo oranges, and a new apple I haven’t tried before, Opal (yellow skinned but feels a bit soft). Looking forward to trying that.
Great video @Meade. Especially the tree at the end.
I think Inga jumped the gun on the report — Clearly, the man was not restrained. Too well covered to be tasered. And he was armed, so what were the officers supposed to do, give him a chance to shoot somebody?
Sorry, Tex, Bob Wills is still the King.
How is it possible that you would even ask such a question?
You don't like the question because the rest of us already know the answer.
Thank you, Rosalyn C!
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