Opinion

This week we will look at the spring feasts, called this because of when they fall on the Jewish lunar calendar.

Dear Neil: Two or three years ago we planted three small Amethyst Falls wisterias at the base of our pergola thinking they would bring cooling shade in the summer. They survived the cold of February 2021 and kept on growing, but when they reached the top of the pergola the plants began dying.

During the Bicentennial year of 1976, I was a 15-year-old history geek. To be alive for the 200th birthday of our nation, particularly in Philadelphia, where it all began, was intoxicating.

No sooner had Texas Sen. John Cornyn finished taking bows for delivering 15 Republican votes to pass a bipartisan gun safety bill than he began talking up amnesty.

In the book of Genesis the Bible tells of how God created the universe as we know it today in six days. On the seventh day He rested.

National Blueberry Month continues with a delicious cake made with blueberries. When the come in season, they cannot be beat! While they are closely related huckleberries, they are two different berries, each with several subspecies.

Dear Neil: I bought this pecan tree from a tree farm in January. It was dug with a machine, then the root ball was wrapped in burlap and secured in a wire cage. I planted it within three days. Is it just in shock? Can it be saved?

There were a lot of ingredients in the 2010 Republican electoral landslide.

I sure could use a vacation about now — but I have no plans to take one this summer. That’s the breaks for self-employed people like me who do not enjoy paid-vacation benefits.