A Trip to the Rio Grand Valley

I’ve been going to the Rio Grand Valley for more than fifty years. When I first went there, towns were separated by brush country. You would go to one city, then travel thru non-populated areas then you would come to another city. It’s not that way now. It’s hard to find much rural country.

TICK TOCK... TICK TOCK

Tributaries bubbling from the eternal well-spring of public meetings, join those reservoirs of long-cultivated as well as confidential sources and mix with filtered data from public records or those anonymously slipped through mail slots and make for a deep and steady stream of information to dip...

2 Cents Worth

Grab you a cup of coffee and visit with me awhile, we had rain over the weekend, hurrah got 8 tenths here in town Saturday and got 2 tenths during the night sometime.

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Massive wildfires ignited by power lines

Two wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres in the Panhandle were caused by downed power lines, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.Juan Rodriguez, with the service, told the Texas Standard that its law enforcement investigators had concluded their probe into the source of the...

New angles in taxidermy

Wyatt Oakley retired from the fire department in Odessa, then became fire chief in Stamford and retired from that position. Once when he was fishing he caught a beautiful bass and decided to mount it himself. It won a prize at a taxidermy competition.

THE ELEPHANT BESIDE AN EMPTY CHAIR

I’m not sure what it is about humans that causes such unpredictability in our behavior.

2 Cents Worth

What a beautiful morning we all woke up to this morning in Aspermont even though I am going to gripe, this time change just gets me all out sorts. I really don't mind either one of them, but just leave it alone.

Independence of the Peasants

On October 28, 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote a famous letter to his friend James Madison.

Faces & Places

We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we'd pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch.