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Hooray for extreme heat advisory!
Summer heat must be like childbirth: pain off the charts, but people somehow forget all that once it’s done. Only memories of the good parts. So here’s a cheer for all the awesome things resulting from...
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Drought: Bears can’t bear it.
A desperate run for a stock tank meant the end for one 2 year old black bear in Kerr County, Texas. Startled a human. Wrong place, wrong time. Only weighed about the same as a high school cheer leader...
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Anxious Alligators amble during drought.
Fluffy watch out! Check the pool before jumping in! Alligators just aren’t going to take it anymore. With wetlands and watering holes drying up, they are hitting the road. Last Sunday, one 10-11 foot...
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Hunt Hogzilla or Greet the gators.
Open season, but not on politicians this time. A chance to redirect that heat-addled energy towards acceptable outlets: Hunt for Hogzilla or get Gatorwise. Pig-out at the First Annual Hunt for Hogzilla...
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Flooding? No fair. Heat’s cracking us up.
Water, water on TV – none around here that we see. You know how your mouth can water when watching someone eat a savory tasty treat? It’s like that. All that water – even if it’s tossing cars and...
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Jobs? Why wait? Texas now.
Got shovel? Come on down! That’s what I was thinking as I watched President Obama’s Labor Day speech in Detroit about jobs, and projects to put people back to work. What perfect timing! Texas is full...
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Rain? Cat-meat-baby gotta dance.
Stunned. Absolutely delirious with delight. One small brown dove perched out in the open. Four pairs of “older” adult dove pairs, in strict survival mode, sheltered under the palm branches during the...
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Free In-flight meals! (No reservations)
No food fight here. Only time for a quick Lantana lunch. And grateful for that. It’s taking over the yard. Dwarfing the fence and edging towards the house. That Lantana bush. Can’t do anything about it...
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Flocking to occupy small street
They know exactly what they want. Unlike some, they are a hungry crowd – and they have a leader. He’s got them moving in one direction. Up one side of the street and down the other. Always stepping on...
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Protest leaves
It was a grassroots effort. The excessive heat just made them more determined. A small army – standing shoulder to shoulder. As a humid breeze mingled among the little crowd, some questioned: Do you...
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