An Anniversary To Forget?
November 6, 2008 One year ago today…Life took a turn. A new beginning. Like the photo above, a new day dawned, different from all of the days before it. On
Continue readingNovember 6, 2008 One year ago today…Life took a turn. A new beginning. Like the photo above, a new day dawned, different from all of the days before it. On
Continue readingI’ve been falling down on my duties as a grandfather this past month. So to play catch up here are two slideshows…First of #2 grandson’s first birthday… Second, of #1
Continue readingIt was a cool misty morning as I poured a cup of coffee…Looking out the back screen the light looked intriguing. I grabbed the camera and slipped on the flipflops
Continue readingWe are now entering my favorite time of the year. Cool fall days in the low 70’s and nighttime lows dipping down into the 50’s. Skies so blue that if
Continue readingAnother reason to change our methods… A ground beef recall for more than 545,699 pounds of meat has been expanded to states from North Carolina to Maine on fears of
Continue readingTo a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.
Continue readingThree years ago this month we were on Padre Island celebrating our 28th. Two years ago, it was the Blue Ridge Mountains and our 29th. Last year it was the
Continue readingFor the last couple of days here we have been having really beautiful weather. Overnight lows in the low 50’s warming up slowly into the low 70’s. Cloudless, scrubbed blue
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