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This year ‘The Garden Guy’ decided to add some dwarf buddleia into his arsenal of pollinator plants. The idea of 3-foot tall or less buddleias, or butterfly bushes, seemed like just what the doctor ordered to be able to incorporate them with lantanas, rudbeckias, gaillardia and salvias for a colorful wild Serengetistyle backyard habitat. Lo and behold, I have a found a Garden Guy favorite.

In our home, we recycle all our aluminum used beverage cans (UBC), just as most of you probably also do. (And getting a little change for them is a nice benefit in some places.) However, it surprised us how many cans are not recycled.

My journey this week takes me to Rommie Loudd, a friend I made at my first pastorage in Winters, Texas, in 1986. His witness helped build my faith.

Q.Who has written the library column in past years?

Thankfully, alligators are not found in our area of Texas and you won’t find these creatures in the San Marcos or Blanco rivers.

BEIJING (AP) — Four decades after the U.S. established diplomatic ties with Communist China, the relationship between the two may have reached a turning point.

With protest marches, riots, and racism still in the news, an article in the Resource Recycling newsletter showed racism is also affecting recycling programs.

My journey this week takes me to the craft of writing. During this Pandemic, what we experience is new and unique – it needs to be recorded. Moses, when camped on the Plains of Moab, was commanded by the Lord to record the spiritual and geographic progress of the journey. “At the Lord’s command, Moses recorded the stages of the journey” Numbers 33:2 (NIV).

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