3 strategies to protect mental health

Improving one’s overall health and maintaining that health over the long haul can have a profound impact on quality of life. For example, the Harvard Medical School notes that regular exercise can slow the natural decline in physical performance that occurs as people age.

Hill Country Naturalist

Most of this column was written nine years ago to describe the changes that had occurred in the vegetation inside our high fence the previous 11 years.

The Idle American

The subject of footwear has hit me dead center in recent days. Following are details of unlikely happenings last week. Remembrances are hand-on-the-Bible truths to which I am sticking.

Texas Insurance Tips

Planning an out-of-town trip? Before heading out, take time to make your home as safe as possible: Set timers on interior lights. Criminals look for easy targets. Use a timer on a few lights to make it appear someone is home. Also, don’t let newspapers or mail pile up.

Jordan Cattle Auction

Receipts totaled 3,198 head. The demand remains very strong with the stocker steers and heifers selling fairly steady to last weeks increases. The feeder steers and heifers sold steady to $1-$2 higher with 5 steers 747 lbs at $143.00 ($1,068.21) and 5 steers 937 lbs at $131.00 ($1,227.47).

Your Texas Agriculture Minute

The Texas Restaurant Association welcomed about 3,000 people to its Marketplace trade show in San Antonio recently. Restaurant owners and operators, food suppliers and equipment reps were there. And so were Texas farmers and ranchers.

Hill Country Naturalist

I recently read an article by a woman who described her visit to a tall grass prairie remnant in Kansas, and the utter joy she felt by simply walking among the grasses and wildflowers and experiencing what much of the middle of the country used to look like.