Lightning! The Not-so-silent Killer! We've all been there... you're settling in to watch a movie with the family, or snuggling in to a warm bed and just shutting your eyes, when you hear it... That low throaty rumble in the distance. You sometimes think, "Nah, it's just a passing truck or something." But then a few seconds later, you see a flash of light and then another small boom in the distance... Rats! it's about to storm. Now most people in Texas, particularly along a corridor stretching from the pan-handle and following along the Red River into Northeast and east Texas, fear the dreaded severe weather because of the other things that these storm bring with them, hail, high winds, torrential rains, and Tornadoes. We normally think that lightning is just a beautiful light show and a bit of diversion from the real dangerous parts of the weather. oh, how wrong we are... Sometimes we take the dangers of lightning for granted. We sprint across ou
Sunburn? ...In Springtime??? Spring is the best time of year for getting out there and getting that yard or garden fixed up and waking up the begonias, and you would be right if you thought that is will be a benefit as far as your health and wellbeing. Just two quick points that revisit our other posts, watch for changing weather and TAKE YOUR ALLERGY MEDS!! ok, enough of the public announcements... on to the garden!! So, you've tilled the ground, planted the seeds, watered, fed, weeded, nourished, mowed and discarded your dead grass and weeds... Now for some much-needed rest and... OUCH!! WHY IS MY SKIN HURTING SO BAD?! I must have looked at a bull nettle sideways... the redness, slight swelling, maybe a little itchy? but, no, I don't have nettles in my front yard, or in my garden... Did I get a sunburn??? but... but... it's Spring! Unfortunately, this scenario plays out year after year, in many yards and gardens around our area and across the count