How good are your olfactory senses? They vary among folks; some can sense the tiniest variations in an odor while there are those who, like me, that do not. I can tell that there is a difference between a woman’s perfume and barnyard perfume. Most of the time I can also tell whether that difference […]

The following is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of this publication. The recent federal court opinion holding the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) accountable for the deaths of 23 whooping cranes because of inadequate freshwater inflows to San Antonio Bay has generated a lot of concern and […]

  Gardening Gene Comes Alive Greetings from the island everyone. Hope all of you are doing well and remembered to set your clocks ahead this past weekend. I have but one clock to occasionally glance at out here, so in about ten seconds I was done. Time is really of very little importance to me […]

Spring 2013 By the time you are reading this, Mother Nature has almost ushered out Winter as the official season of the hour. Of course, for most of the Continental United States that means a lot more temperature wise than it does in South Texas. By comparison, the town I was born in, Oak Lawn, […]

Thinking of burning that pile of brush in the back yard? Or burning off the grass and/or brush in that field in the country you own? There are several laws and regulations you need to abide by. In this article I’ll go over some important State regulations, including some rules specific to areas in Calhoun […]