Thanks for all those that came to the Art United Methodist Church Sunday night. The music performed by the different churches in our community was wonderful.
For your calendar: Valentines lunch cooked by the men on February 12. Art-Trinity United Methodist Women at Castell on February 14.
Happy Birthday to Nea Young, Marion Leifeste, and Tina Ceynowa on February 1st, Sterling McKinney on February 3rd, and Pastor Tim and Jack Asbill on February 5th.
Make yours a good week.
February.
Officially the last full month of winter.
Get ready.
Get set.
Bluebonnets (sans blooms) showing up in droves.
Teasing us.
Could be a bumper crop this year.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
‘Tis February.
The shortest month of the year.
Por que?
They believe February always had 28 days ever since the time of King Numa Pompilius.
Who?
He was second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus.
Pompilius ruled from 715 to 673 B.C.
Surely you remember.
He decided that a year would have 355 d ...
You're Allowed to Complain, Not Destroy....
The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as our 45th President is done. As has occurred for almost 250 years, the United States of America has once again completed the peaceful transfer of power from one elected leader to the next.
And, there were people protesting his inauguration before it had even transpired.
President Trump
Dear Gerry,
I just learned that Donald Duck will be laying a wreath at Arlington Nat’l Cemetery today. The ironies overwhelm me.
Here is a man who considered paying taxes beneath him, and he’s honoring those who paid with their lives for this country? Is this not the very image of a hypocrite?
I’d like to remind everyone that we’re starting to collect books for the annual Friends of the Library Book and Bake Sale. You may bring books to the library but please bring them in—don’t leave them on the porch. Also, please check to see if the books are in fairly good shape and dusted off.
It’s only (someone else’s) money
Several years ago, not long after Carter Smith became Executive Director of Texas Parks & Wildlife, I cornered him at a Texas Outdoor Writers Assn. conference and bent his ear for a while. Well, I didn’t literally bend his hear. It’s just an expression. It means to whine about something to the point where you cause excessive irritation to your listener(s).
And they called the wind Mariah.
The wind came thru and pruned the trees, and pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down went into the wind and off to places unknown! I even received a few items from parts unknown. Just before the storm struck I had finished pruning and cutting back.
The internet has a delete button. The Facebook has a thumbs up, sad, and happy buttons. What we need is a DISGUSTING button. This goes for the news stations. I know you can turn the channel or station off, but still I would like to hit the DISGUSTING BUTTON.
You have to push one for English.
And So, We Trudge On...
Church marquees all over Arkansas touted the Razorbacks in the 1969 season’s so-called “game of the century.” Many messages something like: “Football is only a game. Eternal things are spiritual. Nevertheless, beat Texas.” (The Longhorns and the Razorbacks were ranked #1 and #2 nationally.)
UT prevailed, 15-14, thanks to a couple of fourth-quarter touchdowns.
New year.
New month.
New President.
New First Lady.
New policies.
New procedures.
New challenges.
New solutions.
Perhaps.
Supposedly.
Maybe.
Possibly.
And yet...
“There is no new thing under the sun.” [Ecclesiastes 1:9]
Ain’t that the truth.
Thus the saying: history repeats itself.
We live in interesting times.
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the
intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.” [Phaedrus]
And so it goes.
And h ...
