Who Pooped The Pumpkins?

November 28, 2011 Be Afraid

Giant Eagle Inc. hoisted the food safety bar to new depths today when the company warned people not to eat any among an unspecified number of cases of Valu Time and Food Club canned pumpkins because, um, well, they didn’t really want to say, nor did pumpkin vendor Topco Associates LLC. But our brave guardians [...]

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Renewal

November 15, 2011 Fruit

Whatever’s left after flood, fire, famine or freeze, nature picks up the pieces and carries on. Like this loquat tree, the central crown of which died in the summer drought (and I still haven’t gotten around to cutting it out and hauling it off). Yet the half-tree that remained alive has burst forth with clusters [...]

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Home If They Say So

October 28, 2011 Government

After some persistence, I finally received Official Word the other day that our city, county and federal governments have joined forces in an effort that will, in a couple of months, cause most of the value of the One Acre Ranch to vanish as if by magic. There is a long version of this story, [...]

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Eating Fresh Minus The Listeria

October 17, 2011 Be Afraid

Now is the summer of our discontent supplanted by an honest Fall, complete with fog and mist and even genuine rain, enough to soak our grounds and command the grasses to grow once more. (Not enough, though, to fill empty Texas reservoirs, many of which are below 40% capacity in evidence the dreaded drought continues [...]

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Quench

October 10, 2011 Nature

Rains came at 5 a.m. yesterday and again late in the morning, the second time lasting hours, interspersed with gentle thunder. Real rain, two and a half inches worth, filling every dry crevice, even pooling a bit in the back yard as if these were normal times again. Big enough rain to knock the devil’s [...]

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Looking For Fall Or A Reasonable Facsimile

October 6, 2011 Garden

The weather has cooled here somewhat, beginning Oct. 1, not enough to call it fall yet, more like Summer Jr., with highs still reaching close to 90. However, the evenings have been pleasant enough that the hibiscus have begun blooming again, and I’ve finally started the fall garden. In a usual semi-South Texas year, you [...]

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Finally A Farmers Market

September 30, 2011 Farm

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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