by Phil Houseal | Oct 30, 2019 | All Articles, Education, People of the Hill Country
Oct 30, 2019–Get along, little wormy. Now you can be a real Texas rancher, and all you need is a plastic bin with a lid. Your livestock? Mealworms. Crispy, juicy, squirmy morsels that chickens can’t resist and lizards leap for. Hill Country worm herder Janell Reyenga...
by Phil Houseal | Oct 24, 2019 | All Articles, Education, Events, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy, Venue
October 22, 2019–As with many a Halloween decorating scheme, this one started with a simple idea that got out of hand. In five years a few floating candles have blazed into a full-blown reproduction of the magical Diagon Alley from the world of Harry Potter books and...
by Phil Houseal | Oct 17, 2019 | All Articles, Education, Events, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
Oct 16, 2019–So much of our daily communication is cocktail party conversation without the cocktails: shallow ramblings about the weather, recent medical procedures, or political rants. The words may serve to lubricate the hub of the social wheel, but seldom set any...
by Phil Houseal | Oct 13, 2019 | All Articles, Education, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
Oct 9, 2019–If I asked you to write your Creed–to make a list of 25 things you believe to be true–what would you write? That’s the assignment Fredericksburg Middle School teacher Kacey Forks gave to her Pre-AP English students. She had learned of the idea at a...
by Phil Houseal | Sep 27, 2019 | All Articles, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
Sept 25, 2019–In one 12-hour period I was stung on the bum by a scorpion, zapped on the forearm by a red wasp, and stepped barefoot in a trail of fire ants. It was exhilarating, in a hurty sorta way. And it’s not like I was Indiana Jones-ing. The scorpion got me...
by Phil Houseal | Sep 5, 2019 | All Articles, Events, History, People of the Hill Country
Sept 4, 2019–Descendants of artist Lee Ethel are on a scavenger hunt, and they need your help. Anyone who has spent any time living in or visiting Fredericksburg and surrounding towns has seen the work of Lee Ethel, even if they didn’t realize it. For two...
