July 31, 2018 - The veterinarian opened the door and said, “You can come back and look at the x-rays now.” As my wife and I examined the film of Miss Kitty’s left front leg the break was evident even to the untrained eye. “The bone shows no sign of healing after a month in the splint”, he explained.

July 9, 2018 - Recently I saw a television ad concerning a certain beer or ale. The male character would swallow a bit of the concoction and say the words “dilly, dilly.” All the other people sitting around the campfire would parrot back the words “dilly, dilly.”

June 15, 2018 - Life, like dealing with your mother-in-law, is all the more challenging if you can’t laugh at it once in a while. No other relationship has created more love or hate, depending upon your situation, than mothers-in-law. Men all learn, sometimes too late, that when they marry that beautiful young lady they are also marrying her family. The mother-in-law seems to create angst more than any other in-law. Consequently, there are more jokes told about her than any other family member.

May 14, 2018 - Clara Murphy will present her students in recital on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 7:00 pm at First Baptist Church in San Augustine. Participating students are: Kambree Hall, Vi’Siscile Caroway, Aspen Morton,  A’nesiya Burrell, Jakajsa Clark, Yarihanna Clark, Bonie Consford, Lillian Collins, Kailey Sowell, Charlisa Teagle, Justine M. Chavez, and Bethany Dorsey. Katie Lindow and Brianna Craig, students of Bethany Dorsey will also be presented in this recital. Don’t miss Clair de Lune on the piano and a beginner student playing a song on the organ pedals.

January 15, 2018 - Perhaps you have heard the phrase, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. But is that thirteenth century proverb correct? Our cat, Miss Kitty, taught me a lesson about birds several years ago that disputes the phrase.

As with most female cats, Miss Kitty, was  an avid hunter. She regularly scoured our one-acre tract for any game - rats, lizards, mice, baby rabbits, and birds. Mostly she just played with them and let them go, but sometimes she would devour a bird.