Grandfatherly Duties

I’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

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Wednesday Morning Walk

It 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

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My Favorite Time Of Year…Autumn On The Texas Gulf Coast.

We 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

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Ground Beef Recall Expanded – Slashfood

Another 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

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The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman

To 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.

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