Opinion

Many years ago a young boy spent many hours building a toy sailboat. He used sandpaper, and sanded the hull until it was silky smooth. It was painted a deep royal blue. The sails were made of cotton from his mom’s remnant bag.

Dear Neil: My 20-year-old pecan tree has been very healthy, but this year branches are falling off with what appears to be girdling. My local nursery says we should not have this in Texas. What should be done?

The single most effective thing to prevent injuries and death in a car crash is to wear your seat belt. While most drivers and passengers are wearing their seat belts in the front seat, many adults riding in the back seat do not feel they need to buckle their seat belt.

“You wanna borrow, you gotta pay the man.” Rocky Balboa was right, even way back in Rocky I. Rocky didn’t break Bob’s thumb like Mr.

A group of illegal aliens in Texas has filed a lawsuit claiming their arrests on local and state charges are “unconstitutional.” Adding to this class-action chutzpah, they want more than $5 million in compensation.

Stones are a basic part of our lives. We’ve been around stones since birth. We’ve played with them, thrown them, skipped them if we lived close to a lake. We built things with them, and stepped on them with our bare feet.

Pecos County Senior Celebration was held on May 6 at the Large Community Hall honoring our seniors with workshops, guest speakers, exhibitors, a meal, information, and awards.

Dear Neil: I’m hoping you can shed some light on my crepe myrtle’s issues. Early last spring it had some dead branches. I cut them out, and it did flower, but not as well as usual. Now it has dropped leaves much earlier than other plants in others’ yards down the street. Any suggestions?

“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” Those are the clever words of British humorist Terry Pratchett, who couldn’t have explained the aging process more succinctly. I know his words are true because I turned 60 this week.