Juan Quezada spent his boyhood scouring the canyons and forests of Mexico’s Sierra Madre in search of wood with which to make charcoal to sell in the local markets. Wherever his huarache-clad feet carried him in that scenic land, he found evidence of a past civilization, mostly in the form of pottery shards.
Have you ever laughed so hard you thought you might bust a gut? As it turns out, it’s usually not laughter that causes it. And, honestly, it’s not truly funny when it does happen.
A busted gut is more correctly termed “hernia.” It happens when an anatomical part protrudes through an opening where it shouldn’t be.
While serving as a young missionary in South America, My companion and I were assigned to visit fellow missionaries working in a small Uruguayan town. We disembarked at the town plaza. We had no address for the missionaries and were speculating about how best to locate them. The answer came from an unexpected source.
It is customary for a Catholic cathedral to be located prominently on one side of the central square.
Fall is for planting! If you plan to add plants to your landscape such as trees, shrubs, flowers and garden and flower bed, September is the month to begin. September is a good month to prepare soil for all spring gardens and flower beds.
This is also time to plant wildflowers.
“How would you like to visit for a little while? It might be nice to take a couple of minutes now and then for that. To ask, ‘How are you?’ and mean it, share some memories and maybe pass along the news of the day. Let me be the first to say that I don’t know a lot to talk about but maybe something will turn up.
Often, in talks to various groups on the subject of our native habitat, I say there are three forces over which we have very little control but which are decreasing the amount of native habitat in the Hill Country.
The three are: (1) farm and ranch land sold to development (housing projects, shopping centers, schools, parking lots, roads, etc.); (2) land fragmentation of larger ranches being broken up into many small parcels thus giving myself and many others a place to live in the country; ...
“Do we have to listen to this song every morning? It gets stuck in my head all day long,” Josh complained on the way to school the other morning.
“That’s the point,” I replied. “When you’re not busy with something else, I want the words to this song to echo in the background of your thoughts.”
My kids all know and accept they’re being brainwashed by me.
On Aug. 31 at the ‘Old 300 BBQ’ campaign rally for Ted Cruz in Blanco County, Texas, I was accosted by a representative of the “Citizen’s Security.”
I had taken a bag into the venue because I could not leave it in a hot car. I kept the bag on the floor beside me during the event and at the conclusion I was accosted by a stranger who demanded to know what was in my bag.
Tourism brought in over $171 billion to Texas in 2017. Jobs created were 1.1 million. Beautiful, rivers, and streams are essential for drawing tourists to Texas. The proposed water treatment facility will have a huge impact on our community.
Besides tourism, we must consider health factors. Clean water is vital for health.
This city is blessed to have an incredible emergency services team, who worked tirelessly to secure the scene and ensure public safety after a major traffic accident along U.S. Hwy. 281/Main St. last week.
Our emergency services, fire and police departments responded within seconds to the scene of a horrific crash scene, which posed may challenges and had many complexities.
