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“A Lesson from Spot”

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:37pm Ourtown1

“If any should not work, neither should he eat…” I Thes. 3:10

Spot, a Painted Bunting that I’ve photographed the past

three years, has a new family in the sand hills near Center,

Texas. Today all three fledglings flew into the grass where

their parents often feed. They are fully feathered and except

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:36pm Ourtown1

“A Lesson from Spot”

“If any should not work, neither should he eat…” I Thes. 3:10

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:28pm Ourtown1

Well, here we go… 2016, and already this year is starting out to be out of the ordinary. Besides being an

election year with all of the war of words (if not outright hatred) being broadcast we also are having

epoch flooding in several states while Mr. President will announce his executive action on gun control

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 11:34am Ourtown1

In case you have not noticed, 2016 is a leap year. Why do we need leap

years anyway? The short answer is, “the leap years synchronize the calendar

year with the solar year”. However, leap years are far more complicated

than that simple answer.

The Gregorian calendar, which now serves as the standard calendar for civil

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 11:05am Ourtown1

Our everyday speech is seasoned with hundreds of overused clichés such as “at

the end of the day,” “a whole new ball game,” “thinking outside the box,” and “plenty

of fish in the sea,” but if you’ll forgive me, I’m going to purposefully and deliberately