The Benbrook Bandit
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The Windy City
I’m fascinated by weather. Wind is weather and so I present you with these numbers from weather.com. It’s exceptionally windy right now.
Benbrook, TX at 4:45 PM
Wind: 35 MPH, gusting to 50 MPH
40% Humidity
94 Degrees
It doesn’t feel like 94 degrees. Must be the wind! 
Windiest Big Cities
We also must debunk the myth that Chicago is the windy city. I present you with average wind speeds from big American cities.
Milwaukee - 11.5 MPH
Dallas-Fort Worth - 10.7 MPH
San Francisco Airport - 10.6 MPH (I don’t think airports should count)
Minneapolis-St Paul - 10.5 MPH
Chicago - 10.3 MPH (hah!)
Detroit - 10.3 MPH
Philadelphia - 9.5 MPH
Miami - 9.2 MPH
Seattle - 8.9 MPH
Houston - 7.7 MPH
Los Angeles - 7.5 MPH
You Learn Something New Every Day
Today I learned that in North Texas you can edge your lawn during Spring at 9 PM because it’s still bright out. I also learned that battery powered edgers work! Since I don’t have a cordless electric blower yet I’m going to see if the wind blows the clippings away overnight. There’s pretty much been a constant stream of 20 MPH wind all Spring. Eat your heart out Chicago.
April Fun Photos
Here are some photos from April. We went to Lake Granbury, a Southwestern Seminary picnic, a “Mexico City” restaurant in Plano. There’s also a picture of Sudi operating a power tool (cool, huh Dad?) and some shots of visitors to our backyard.
Petuniaville, TX
Posted by Sudi in Artwork, Fun, Garden, General, Home, Outdoors, Photography, Places on April 15th, 2008 at 06:11pm
Spring is here and we have succeeded on our first gardening experience. We started three weeks ago by having Weed-Man come over and remove some old shrubs and other ugly landscaping the previous owner left behind. We wanted to start fresh and do our own thing. We bought all our supplies, plants, soil and flowers at the THE PLANT SHED a local greenhouse. There we met Libby, who tutored us and told us all we needed to know about planting a flower garden. So here it is, 30 bags of top soil, 10 bags of manure, 1 bag of hardwood mulch, 3 Forsinthia bushes and 71 white and purple petunias later, our masterpiece.~
It’s beginning to look a lot like…Spring???
This past week we noticed the neighbors’ trees starting to grow leaves and bloom flowers. The grass in our backyard by the door is starting to wake up and turn green too. Wonderful. 
Spring is here!
But, Texas weather is really exciting. One day it’s 70 degrees and sunny. The next day, while listening to the radio, you hear “csssssh… beeeeeeep! This is an emergency alert…” and an hour later you’ve got two Christmas ferns in your front yard! On average, Benbrook gets less than an inch of snow each year.
Here are some pictures and a video (below the slidesnow- I mean show)from our street. Don’t forget to look at General Wintermix, a snowman who showed up in our backyard today. Did I just say that? What, “our backyard” or “snowman?” Both!
Home Sweet Home
We decided it was time to buy a nice little home of our own, so we did. Our neighborhood is called Hills of Whitestone Ranch and is in Benbrook, TX. We’re about 5 miles southwest of Fort Worth. It’s sort of a rural-suburban area so the street you take to get into our neighborhood doesn’t have a name, just a number: Farm-to-Market 2871. We see horses and a partial view of Lake Benbrook every time we come and go. We’re happy.
ATTENTION: Pictures of the inside of this house will not be posted. If you want to see, you must come.
Lucy 2008
Sudi Kate’s Photography Studio presents Lucy Fashion Show 2008.
Thanksgiving Snow Video
It snowed here on Thanksgiving this year. I put together a little video to show the family and friends back in San Diego what snow looks like. I had to ask Sudi, who has lived in Minnesnowta, if it was snowing because I wasn’t entirely sure what snow falling from the sky looked like. The Fort Worth area is only supposed to get one inch of snow per year. I think that might have been it.
Deer in Benbrook on Christmas Eve
On Thanksgiving we had snow. On Christmas Eve, on the way home from church, we spotted some deer down the road from our apartment. Six of them staring at us! It reminded me of seeing dolphins in La Jolla. There’s something amazing about seeing animals in the wild and seeing them on Christmas Eve was as special as Thanksgiving snow. Benbrook is really growing on me.
