Gone

A whole lot of stuff disappeared over the weekend:

1. Summer
2. Drought
3. The old Foley's building
4. The Houston Texans' Offense
5. All those Hummingbirds that we've been feeding for the past few weeks

The Autumnal Equinox occurred, and -right on time - we had our first real cool front of the season.  That, combined with tropical moisture from the outer bands of a system that flooded eastern Mexico, gave us five inches of rain on Friday.

The next day, we awoke to 63 degrees and crystal clear blue skies, a preview of November in Southeast Texas.

For the past several weeks, we had been refilling our Hummingbird feeder three and four times a day, averaging almost ten pounds of sugar per week.  The birds took their cue from the weather and headed South. We filled the feeder late Saturday evening, and it is still about half full today.  There are a few stragglers, but the vast majority of birds are long gone.

The less said about the football game the better.  The only good thing about it was that it was much easier on my  heart rate and blood pressure than the first two games of the season.

Oh, and if you didn't see it, here's what it looked like when the Foley's building imploded: