Garden stones allow butterflies to get warm so they can fly. A few copper pennies prevent algae from forming in your birdbath. Good old cornmeal. Dump a small box into a...

Our spring/summers for several years have given us heavy spring rains followed by flash droughts starting in June or July, and many yards are now in drought status even...

At a family reunion, I went outside to play catch with a cousin. “I’d rate your baseball skills below average,” he said. “Does that surprise you?” That didn’t shock me one...

At dinner, I sat next to two ladies engaged in conversation. I strained my ears to catch any possible gossip. But, they weren’t talking to each other. Each had someone else...

By the time their eighth child arrived on Feb.11, 1889, the Hunts were running out of names as well as room. The couple called the boy Haroldson...

Courtesy TAMU AgriLife: Texas winters are infamously fickle. Each year, weather conditions range from mild temperatures with high humidity to record-setting rain, sleet,...

Folks, as big of a fan of Merle Haggard as I am and will always be, I’d like to go into other classic country artists that Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., and others such as...

With the primaries and November mid-term elections on the horizon, a new statewide poll shows Texas voters broadly agree on a range of issues that...

Tickets are now on sale for the Chamber’s “Walk Down Memory Lane” Banquet Saturday, March 26, 2022 @ 6pm (doors open), 6:30pm (dinner served). It will be held in the...

One of my friends just asked me, “I’m about to move. You got any ideas for organizing the process?” Actually, I once read a book on getting organized. Unfortunately, right...

If you’re like me, your life can be divided into two time periods…BCP (Before Cell Phones) and ARD (After Rotary Dials). Yeah, back in those ancient times a phone was...

Where I left off in the last issue when Merle Haggard recorded “My Friends are Gonna be Strangers,” that song started his career off and running. In 1967, Haggard recorded...

When Belle Starr retired for the night on Feb. 2, 1889, she had no way of knowing that the twilight ride planned for the next day would be her...

It’s February – American Heart Month – a time when the nation spotlights heart disease, the No. 1 killer of Americans. President Lyndon B. Johnson,...

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend...