The Rio Grande Valley today is a land of palm trees and trailer courts, sugar cane and citrus groves. But that’s not at all what the area looked like before the twentieth century.
In his book Adios to the Brushlands biology teacher and newspaper reporter Arturo Longoria laments the continuing destruction…
One of our goals while in South Texas was to introduce my father-in-law to the wonders of e-mail. He’s been hearing rumours of e-mail for years and all his children and grandchildren are avid users of it. Now he’s acquired an e-mail appliance for Christmas and he needs to learn…
We’ve been visiting with Tricia’s dad in his motorhome down in the Rio Grande Valley.
Actually his story sounds a lot like a Jack Nicholson movie. His wife was the one who looked forward to retiring to a life of traveling the country but she passed away from cancer just months…
Over the weekend we drove down to “the Valley” to visit my father-in-law. (I assume everyone knows that “the Valley” is the narrow fertile area near the mouth of the Rio Grande). I am “moblogging” this from my laptop over a dial-up connection. After several years of a DSL connection…
Our three cats like to help out with computer tasks. I’ve mentioned before that Sapphire in particular likes to walk across the keyboard or lay down on top of it. You may have seen some of her typing in the posts on this site. They are the ones with the…