Believe it or not, I’d never been butt-dialed before, although my wife has so I knew what it was. Still, I was unprepared. When I answered my cell phone “This is Bob,” I heard a light, muffled almost-nothing in response. “Hello?” I asked, listening harder. It was faint, but unmistakable: I heard the gentle cluck-clucking [...]
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Finally a big farmers market in central Fort Bend County – coming your way tomorrow and every Saturday through Dec. 10. I love farmers markets, but I hate having to spend an hour each way driving to the big ones in Houston. With close to 550,000 people in Fort Bend County, it has amazed me [...]
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Fort Bend County, in which I live, is on the edge between the Houston Suburban Infestation and the Texas Outback. Thus you wouldn’t think it would be so difficult to find someone in the Outback portion selling fresh eggs from yard chickens. But you’d be wrong. It’s been two years since I had a good [...]
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God shined on us a few minutes ago, by raining on us. Very brief, but nice and hard. Dropped the temps from 102 in the shade to 95 in the shade. That may not seem like a lot, but hey, it was heaven to us, because it’s all relative and, relatively speaking, our weather has [...]
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In the past when I’ve bought property, the catch was finding the right place and successfully negotiating a price acceptable to both me and the seller. Financing was almost an afterthought. Yesterday we found out it doesn’t work that way anymore, especially if what you are purchasing is a small farm property. Despite both of [...]
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I’m almost afraid to write about it for fear of a last-minute jinx, but it appears we have cemented a real estate deal for the new homestead: Six acres, two barns and a small house, 45 minutes southwest of here in Wharton County. It’s very small for a farming operation, but adequate if you’re planning [...]
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So it turns out if you use all your trash cans to cover your tomato plants because the temperature stubbornly insists on dropping below 45 degrees every three days or so, you don’t have anyplace to put your actual trash. But no worries, because now the weather forecast shows balmy evenings in the 60s or [...]
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| Today | Thursday |
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 Mostly Cloudy 79°/63° |  Chance of a Thunderstorm 82°/57° |
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