Opinion

Rain has fallen most of the week, at least until Saturday. Post Oak has received 4-6 inches of rain. The creek rose out of its banks but I was able to get out before the water got too high across the road. High winds last week and high water this week makes for a very interesting weather time.

Members of the Busy Bee Quilting Club worked while it rained Wednesday and Thursday to get ready for the quilt show. People still came and brought their quilts on Wednesday morning. 

Imagining what it must have been like on the Titanic after she hit an iceberg that distant night of April 14, 1912 is easy enough, especially if you’ve seen the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. But try envisioning it on a moonless night during a squall while looking off the stern of a cruise ship in the Atlantic, only a little more than a day’s sail from the sunken wreckage of the supposedly unsinkable ocean liner. 

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Since I have begun my journey with Wise Hope, I have found that many believe a relationship is not abusive unless one person actually leaves a mark of some sort on the other. 

This is very untrue. Abuse starts long before a physical strike has been made at the victim. There are many precursors to abusive relationships that can be recognized and mended with the appropriate help. We, at Wise Hope, are ready to help you with your possibly abusive relationship. Here are some common precursors to consider:

Does your partner:

I have a new dog. Zuckey is still number one, but I have a tendency to buy cars and adopt dogs. As my children would attest, I’m hard on both, thus the need for replacements and additions. I have good reasons for doing both. The last car was a used car and after two years and a few bumps, its value was sinking fast. Also, I wanted a small SUV because I’m getting older and some of my friends couldn’t get out of the low little car I had. 

Rarely do I make promises that I do not intend to keep. I am quick to make ‘em, though, if they’re likely to be forgotten by the person to whom they’re made.

Examples of the “likely-to-be-forgottens” include the promise to avoid chocolate for 60 days or to chew each bite of food 28 times.

In neither case is there any “telltale” evidence of whether pledges are honored, unless spouses retrieve candy wrappers from pockets, or watch our chewing to count the number of jaw movements prior to swallowing….

Even though the Energy Information Administration (EIA) at the Department of Energy hedged its monthly analysis of energy markets in the U.S. because of Hurricane Harvey, it predicted crude oil production will set a new record in 2018.

EIA forecasts total U.S. crude oil production to average 9.3 million b/d for 2017 and 9.8 million b/d in 2018, which would mark the highest annual average production in U.S. history, surpassing the previous record of 9.6 million b/d set in 1970.

Here it is time for the 2017 Busy Bee Quilt Show. The show will be Friday and Saturday Sept. 29 and 30 opening at 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the afternoon. The Bees missed having their show in 2016 for the first time since organizing in 1975 due to damage to the Community Center. 

Two books and numerous articles have been written about Temple Houston, the colorful youngest son of Sam Houston. But Temple had not been an only child.

The man who defeated Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at San Jacinto and went on to become the first president of the Republic of Texas married Margaret Lea Power on May 9, 1840 in Marion, Ala. The couple went on to have eight children -- four sons and four daughters. Two of their children, a daughter and a son, survived well into the 20th century.

My granddaughter will be in seventh grade this year. Sometimes she amazes me with her wisdom. A few weeks ago, I heard her telling a fellow camper not to worry about junior high. The eleven-year-old was about to enter sixth grade and admitted to Emma that she was scared. 

Glen Campbell made the most of his decision three dozen years ago when he accepted Christ, was baptized and rose to walk in newness of life. He was led beside still waters, restored and ultimately able to cope with Alzheimer’s. He dealt with life’s final storm on even terms during most of his last six years.

Aren’t we glad the gardener at his Scottsdale, AZ, home invited him to church? The rest, as is said, unfolded in storybook fashion.