We were thinking we might be harboring our own hurricane refugee by now. Our son-in-law left Webster this morning at 1 am and started up the Interstate. By 9 am he had only got as far as Spring, barely north of Houston. He has an aunt there so he stopped […]
Corporations are demanding regulation and the government is refusing to give it to them, says George Monbiot about solutions for global warming.
Any firm which wants to develop the new technologies wants tough new rules. It is regulation that creates the market.
So why won’t the government act? Because it is siding with the dirty […]
The weather is just gorgeous today. We had a good rain which cooled everything down and freshened the garden.
We have a little mini-nursery out back under the pecans. Our garden club was given some trees by a nursery that was going out of business. They are four […]
Last night at the garden club meeting, one of the regulars was going on about Maureen Dowd and how much she enjoyed reading her column on-line at the NY Times. I had to dis-illusion her that her enjoyment was about to come to an end unless she wants to pay $50 to join […]
Freshly-picked cotton stacked outside the gin in Powell, Texas. We saw a number of cotton havesting machines at work in the fields Saturday and many other fields still ready for harvesting.
When I was growing up my mother and father never tired of telling us stories of picking cotton and pulling […]
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