Honestly, no one with an IQ higher than plywood expects politicians to keep their campaign promises, but you have to admit Joe Biden has come closer than most. He said he would reverse a lot of Trump’s policies, and he’s kept his word on that. Unfortunately, they were policies that made sense.
I am sometimes asked, "How do you learn to identify plants?" I suspect that it is like learning anything else, there is certainly more than one way to do it. What worked for me might not work for you.
But before we talk about how to learn the names of plants, we might ask why learning the names of plants is important.
Next week, Summer Reading begins at the library! Read-to-Swim starts on Monday June 7th and will run until July 16th. For thirty minutes of reading at the library, children can earn a pass to the pool or an ice cream. Read-to-Swim is sponsored by Mason Bank and is a great way to get your child interested in reading this summer.
June brings back many good memories! We usually spent at least the first week after I got out of school, camping at the mouth of Leon Creek on the Llano River. This was a long time Eckert Family tradition. They would camp out on Memorial Day and 4th of July to celebrate family birthdays.
Mrs. Lang shared this recipe with me. She got it from her daughter-in-law, who in turn got it from her mother. While it is called a “one bowl” recipe, I found that premixing the flour, salt and baking powder in a separate, small bowl worked better for me. Also, I tried adding a teaspoon of instant coffee to the original recipe and sort of liked the taste that the coffee imparted to the final product.
I was honored to be invited as guest preacher for a special worship service at one of the Synod’s largest congregations. As is my custom, I arrived thirty minutes ahead of the service. Walking through the front door of the church, however, it became obvious that there had been some miscommunication about the time.
This year, the first day of summer begins on Sunday, June 20. With all the very stormy Spring we are having and all the up and down temperatures I am looking forward to Summer. We need sunshine to ripen the tomatoes and kick start the lagging flowering. It is just an unusual weather year.
This week I would like to bring up some issues I am having this season with insects.
I trust everyone has embraced June. The mood is better since most had some rain last week. Welcome summer, even if not the official date.
It is reunion time. My mother’s family, the Kensings, cancelled their reunion last year. We are looking forward to getting together in June at a cousin’s home in Hamilton.
For over a year now the CDC, which is, seriously, located in Atlanta, Georgia, has been telling us what to do to avoid getting sick. Their latest medical advice has nothing to do with the covid thing, but I have to admit it sounds pretty solid. Last week the US public health agency issued a statement urging Americans not to kiss chickens.
Now, that may sound kind of harsh, if you’re the kind that likes a good smooch from your favorite hen now and then, but there have been salmonella outbr ...
A few years ago it was fashionable for people, wanting to sound familiar with the then-new theory in mathematics and physics called the “Chaos” theory, to talk about how a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could be the cause of a tornado in Texas. This was not really a serious thought but rather an attempt by some to explain a complex theory for laymen – the theory being that small changes in initial conditions could result in large changes far removed in time and space, and weathe ...
