Traditional purple martin houses are painted white in order to regulate the internal temperature.
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Exploring Nature: New Arrivals
Sun, 03/10/2024 - 5:00am
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Traditional purple martin houses are painted white in order to regulate the internal temperature.
Photo from Metro Creative
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It’s the off-the-cuff speeches that take the most preparation.
You probably crave a break from my patented “sour grapes” routine, but we must face facts: spring break (a.k.a. Easter break, a.k.a. mid-term break, a.k.a. “unwind, rejuvenate, have fun, but don’t forget how oppressed you are, students”) is not the same for every family.
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My daughter and her husband have been together for 10 years, married for three of them. They have a 1-year-old daughter. I have just learned they may be getting a divorce. My son-inlaw is very controlling as well as verbally and emotionally abusive. He yells, swears and slams doors over the littlest things. It has been going on for the past couple of years.
Get this: Men and women’s brains are different.
Did you hear that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are visiting the Texas-Mexico border Thursday?
Three days after a 7-yearold boy was shot in the head at Houston’s Lakewood Church, his grandmother reported that surgeons had removed parts of the frontal lobe of his brain and of his skull. The boy, Samuel, had “lost a major part of what makes us who we are,” Walli Carranza wrote in a Feb. 14 Facebook post. Carranza blamed the tragedy on “the very same legislators who claim to be ‘pro-life’ (and) believe that unbridled gun rights matter and the right to life does not! Insanity!”
As a writer, I can’t deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms.
It’s time for a pop quiz.
A map of the San Marcos Traverse as diagrammed by Christian Hawley
Christian Hawley hiking with his children.
Photo courtesy of Christian Hawley
The pond at Ringtail Ridge between the berms hosts hundreds of black-bellied whistling ducks
Photo courtesy of Christian Hawley
Creating an 18-mile loop to run around town
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