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Well it is 5:14 a. m. on Monday morning and under normal circumstances I would already have my article for the paper written and ready to email to the paper but when should I ever expect life or circumstances to be normal around this house? A few weeks ago I talked about my computer crashing and the not so magic extended warranty buy some stores sell you.

When a person has been outside on a hot, dry, dusty day, they usually become thirsty. On a day that is very hot a glass of cool water or tea refreshes like nothing else. Most of us have experienced this in our lives. Our mouth becomes so dry we think we have cotton in them soaking up all the moisture.

After the good rains last week and the warm sunny days we are having, the countryside is really getting pretty and green. I wonder if the Algerita bushes are blooming, yet. We are kicking off another new month starting with Ground Hog Day on the 2nd. Maybe old Phil won’t see his shadow and spring will be just around the corner.

Reading Recommendations: Jacqueline Kennedy Historic Conversations on the life of John F. Kennedy. Interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1964. Forward by Caroline Kennedy. Introduction and Annotations by Michael Beschloss.From Forward by Caroline Kennedy "In 1964, as part of an oral History Project on the life and career of John F.

So whose expectations are we living by? Romans 12:2: “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world”. When we let cultural expectations become our standard, we leave little room for Christ. We live in a culture that wants to tell us how to act, how to think, how to look, and how to talk.

Mateo 18:21-35 Entonces se le acerco Pedro y le dijo: Senor, cuantas veces perdonare a mi hermano que peque contra mi? Hasta siete? Jesus le dijo: No te digo hasta siete, sino aun hasta setenta veces siete. Por lo cual el reino de los cielos es semejante a un rey que quiso hacer cuentas con sus siervos.

We are in for a beautiful Spring full of those precious wildflowers that we love so very much. The rains in late December and the rains this week in late January were just in time to insure that we would have a gorgeous Spring with a big splash of color.

One of the news shows on Sunday morning was addressing a new trend for the titles of all sorts of books in your local bookstore to contain curse words. I actually own one of the books they showed, a knitting book entitled “Stitch and ***.” The surprising thing is that some of the books they were showing had much worse words in the titles of what appeared to be children’s books.

The whooping crane – the tallest bird in North America (5 feet tall with a wingspan of 7.5 feet) and one of the rarest – is the leading symbol of wildlife-conservation efforts in the United States. In 1941, the species’ total population had dwindled to 15 cranes, discovered wintering on the Texas coast.

01/19/12 - Johnson,Gabriel, Purchase furnish alcohol to Minor, SO.01/21/12 - Davila, Ernest, PI/DOC, SO.01/24/12 - Wood, Roy, DWI 3rd or More, SO.01/25/12 - Gatliff, James Brian, Wrt DWI 1st, PD.01/26/12 - Benavidez, Ricky Joe, DWI 3rd or More/DWLI, DPS. 01/27/12 - Guerrero, Udelia C, Wrt TBC, SO.01/28/12 - Stevens,Taylor Ryan, Poss Prohibited Weapon, DPS.01/28/12 - Fisher, Robert Elwood, Poss Marij <2 oz, SO.