As guide Chris Moody eased the throttle back on his big guide boat last week, I could make out the mouth of a wide feeder creek entering Richland Chambers Reservoir. Once inside the creek, we were in a totally different world; a world I expect few people experience.
Last week, Representative David Spiller was sworn in as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 87th Texas Legislature on Tuesday, March 9th. Following his oath of office, Rep. Spiller filed eight bills and co-authored ten bills in order to meet the bill filing deadline on Friday, March 12th.
“It is a great honor and blessing to have been officially sworn in as your State Representative for House District 68. Thank you for entrusting me to be your voice in the Texas House,” said Rep. Spiller.
I intended to write a tribute to a longago university chancellor who handled problems with dignity, typically responding with a twinkle in his eye, warmth in his countenance and a droll wit.
Arthur D’Andrea, the chair and sole remaining member of the Public Utility Commission, resigned late last week at the request of Gov. Gregg Abbott. D’Andrea pledged to remain on the PUC until Abbott names a replacement. In the announcement Abbott said in part, “Texans deserve to have trust and confidence in the Public Utility Commission, and this action is one of many steps that will be taken to achieve that goal.”
I want to say a little prayer for the people who will be looking after all those boys who are going to be staying in the Dallas Convention Center while they are relocated to family members and foster care here in the United States. Most of them are between twelve and fifteen. Oh, my.
Show me someone who winces at the thought of hypodermic injections and chances are strong that such fears were birthed by some smart aleck kid who happens to be one or two school grades older.
I’ve persuaded myself to “man up”-- after all, it now seems that injections are a way of life until reaching the exit. (Not until I was age 50 or so could I manage to keep such fears under wraps, and sometimes not even perspire.)
The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.8% in January, down a tick from December’s 6.9% rate but double the record low of 3.4% in May 2019. It is unclear what effect the mid-February winter storm had on employment, when power outages swept the state and many roads were impassable. We’ll find out next month.
There are several very good insurance commercials on television these days. Veterans, sports personalities, cartoon characters, and even an emu all take their turns entertaining and drawing you in to the “really good deals” with their companies. To hear them tell it, only their company really cares about you. They will be there when you need them. They will be waiting for your call. They will not make you pay for something you don’t need. All of them, even the emu, can be proud of some really good advertising minutes.
I’m always on the outlook for anything ‘new’ to make my outdoor lifestyle more fun and enjoyable and through this column, I have the opportunity to pass along these tidbits of information. Such is the case this week.
Have you even heard or ‘peameal bacon’? I’m betting many of you have not. A good friend posed the same question to me a few weeks ago and my answer was something like “What’s peas got to do with bacon”? Let me explain!
What can be done when mere mortals are caught in the crossfire of “stuff-we-don’t-understand-at-all?” And what if our understanding better “fits” bygone days when basic transportation centered on riding horses or depending on them to pull conveyances? There wasn’t an awful lot to understand when either horses or wagons failed us.
