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Fire Ant Flickers (#8)
It's been an interesting week in and around Casa Fire Ant

Photo: Cherry pie topped with vanilla ice cream
Cherry pie and Blue Bell ice cream: a match made in Heaven!

Pie, drought, dogs, turtles, sitcoms, and buzzards: there’s something for everyone!

Published Saturday, 15 March 2025, 13:20
Categorized as Food & Drink, Texas Hill Country, Weather, Wildlife - Birds, Wildlife - Turtles & Lizards Tagged Better Off Ted, cherry pie, drought, Kim's Convenience, snapping turtle

Fire Ant Flickers (#2)
We're all about obscure scientific inquiry here at the Gazette. Also, cool cars.

Photo: Squirrel splitting on our back porch
Summertime, and the splootin's easy...

It’s a rainy day in Texas, and thoughts turn to organic excretions, Cadillac concepts, and third thumbs. What an amazing world we live in!

Published Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 12:04
Categorized as Cars, Fire Ant Flickers, Science, Technology, Weather, Wildlife - Snakes

Fire Ant Flickers (#1)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Altered photo of lighthouse on Lake LBJ (Texas)

Welcome to the first installment of Fire Ant Flickers, which is indistinguishable from a Random Thursday post, but that’s just a fluke of timing. Really.

Published Thursday, 11 July 2024, 13:57
Categorized as Fire Ant Flickers, Horseshoe Bay, Photography, Texas Hill Country, Weather, Wildlife - Invertebrates Tagged butterfly, kayak, Sea Eagle, wasp

Pecan Creek Gets Wild
A sudden thunderstorm caused our normally placid creek to overflow.

Photo: Pecan Creek overflows its banks

A torrential rainfall on May 31st resulted in an almost unprecedented rise in the level of Pecan Creek.

Published Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 16:31
Categorized as Horseshoe Bay, Weather Tagged flood, Pecan Creek

Random Thursday: The Eclipse Mania Edition
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Graphic: Black rectangle with white circle in the middle
Artist rendering of total solar eclipse (not drawn to scale)

This eclipse thing is making folks bonkers. We’ve got a rundown of some examples, and some useful resources explaining the phenomenon.

Published Thursday, 14 March 2024, 12:52
Categorized as Nature, Random Thursday, Texas, Texas Hill Country, Weather Tagged Apocalyptic warnings, Total solar eclipse

Random Thursday

Photo (highly retouched): foggy sunrise via drone

A soupçon of topics…nay, a mere melange of tidbits with which to while away yet another Thursday

Published Thursday, 11 January 2024, 6:10
Categorized as Books & Writing..., Random Thursday, Society & Culture, Weather, Wildlife - Turtles & Lizards

Local Fall Color
The change of seasons here isn't dramatic, but it's still noticeable.

Photo: Japanese maple in red phase of foliage

We don’t get a lot of fall color, but we like what we do see.

Published Saturday, 2 December 2023, 12:14
Categorized as Plant Life, Texas Hill Country, Weather Tagged cottonwoods, fall colors, Japanese maple

Random Thursday

Photo: Out-of-focus face with blurred background

Wherein I clarify my health news, discuss rain and bug poop, and feature cute bird videos.

Published Thursday, 5 October 2023, 13:13
Categorized as Big C & Me, Random Thursday, Weather, Wildlife - Birds, Wildlife - Invertebrates Tagged aphids, leaf-footed bug, prostate cancer, uPSA

Random Thursday

Photo: Cabrillo landscape, San Diego, CA
Cabrillo landscape, San Diego, CA

A&M excels; drought spells; wildlife swells; ugly cars don’t sell. (Yes, I’m unjustifiably proud of that.)

Published Thursday, 7 September 2023, 11:06
Categorized as Cars, Random Thursday, Society & Culture, Weather, Wildlife - Mammals, Wildlife - Trapping Tagged armadillos, drought, Lamborghini, porcupines, Texas A&M

Drought 2023 Update

Photo: Grayscale photo of Pecan Creek low water crossing
A bridge across Pecan Creek in Horseshoe Bay, Texas

We’re experiencing a pretty severe drought right now. But is it really worse than what’s come before?

Published Friday, 1 September 2023, 13:13
Categorized as Horseshoe Bay, Weather Tagged drought, El Niño, Pecan Creek

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