Mikie Baker

Single ladies, listen up. Have I got a fashion tip for you.

Bill Ellis

We know about Indians in historic times, which only goes back 300 to 400 years. What about the Archaic, Pre-historic and Paleo times?

Doug White

There I was walking around the old place near my Mom’s favorite spot where she had several plants that she called bottlebrush. The actual name may be Rose of Sharon.

Ed Longhurst

Taking the week off. When the would fills like its closing in, I can't think of a better way to clear the garbage than on the road.

Stephanie Parker

Celebrate Bandera was a stunning success this year. The OST Restaurant put names on a list and people had to wait to get a table. Wow, that was uptown like Dallas, man

Chaz Allen

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to go. He did! It’s just that the great fates seemed to be gathering against this venture. Well, actually, he almost didn’t get the message at all.

Mikie Baker

Hill Country Martha’s name comes from the fact that she can do anything the real Martha Stewart can do - only she doesn’t have a staff of 60

Doug White

While I was checking out something on this old ’57 Oldsmobile, it jogged a memory. There I was back in 1968, driving my cruiser known as the “Harry Eight”

Bill Ellis

Fertilizer is organic or chemical matter added to the soil to make it more fertile.

Chaz Allen

I can only believe that you had to be there to know exactly what it was like. Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, had become the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.

Stephanie Parker

How ironic is it that Texas’ Gulf Coast took a direct him from Hurricane Ike, yet out of 51 deaths, there were only seven in Texas?

Mikie Baker

We have a new member in our household, but not a baby, puppy or a decent man. No, in fact this one’s pretty well worn, in need of some tender loving care and slightly warped - just like me. Our new addition even has an attitude.

Doug White

There I was stationed in Korea, 8th US Army, Hq Special Troops (EUSA) in Yongsan

Bill Ellis

Xeriscaping is a landscaping technique that is used to save water and usually involves using native plants because they are drought tolerant.

Chaz Allen

Have you ever had a feud with a neighbor? I know that some folks do. For whatever reason, one of them gets offended over something or another

Ed Longhurst

The rain this week is going to subside for the weekend event at Koyote Ranch in Medina. Pictured are Sylvia Terry and Gloria Gober, manager of Koyote Ranch, with some members of the Cowboy Capitol Motorcycle Club.

Stephanie Parker

With football season kicking into gear from the high school level up to the pros, it is a good time to reflect on winners and losers.

Bill Ellis

The Spanish called Indians who lived in the American southwest Apache. The Lipan were the Apaches who lived in Texas.

Mikie Baker

Imagine, just three short years ago I was a Garage Sale Virgin. I’m proud to say that now I’ve been around the block a few times

Doug White

Well, there I was on a beautiful day, Sept. 22, getting ready for the Ingram homecoming parade.

Ed Longhurst

Avid motorcyclist Elvin Stanley owns Hill Country Saddlery.

Doug White

Wow! There I was having a great time in Kerrville’s 2008 Kerr County Fair Parade in beautiful downtown Kerrville.

Mikie Baker

Down here in the country, we have something the Big City people don’t. We have porches and we sit on them everyday. We wave at the neighbors, watch the deer and antelope play while marveling at millions of stars.

Bill Ellis

The Miwok were a peaceful hunter-gatherer race who came to California around 2,000 BC.

Ed Longhurst

I won’t admit how long it had been expired but it became quite a joke with my riding buddies. They were trying to get me to see how long I could go before I was awarded a set of chrome bracelets from the authorities.

Stephanie Parker

When I was a kid, I believed in ghosts. I read many books on ghosts. I asked my friends about haunted houses. They basically told me that if I found a haunted house to explore - go for it.

Chaz Allen

“What in the world is that boy doing now?” That was John’s mother’s remark when she got the note from the teacher at Brent Elementary School that day.