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BoomerBrowsing/RegretCrawling

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Jeff Abt
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I call it BoomerBrowsing, something old codgers do at two in the morning when they can’t sleep. I wonder what happened to John Smith who always wanted to fight when I was in the third grade? Back then I tried … Continue reading →

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Plant Blindness

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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From my favorite newspaper The Wall Street Journal The country has a growing case of ‘plant blindness’—a term used by botanists to describe the inability to identify basic plants. Even biologists struggle.” Douglas Belkin Aug. 14, 2018 11:17 a.m. ET … Continue reading →

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Prickly Pear( Opuntia) With Portulaca

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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Several years ago I bought a pad of Prickly Pear (Opuntia sp.) at the fresh produce “Mexican Section” of an area grocery store and rooted it in a 1/2 pot. It has been happy as a meadowlark even though it … Continue reading →

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A movie For Some Cold Winter Evening

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Jeff Abt
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“Glorious salvia which keep going until the first frost takes them.” We had wonderful rains this past week. I hardly stirred outside the whole day. A trip out to the mailbox in my Wellies was just about my only contact … Continue reading →

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Harper Lee’s ‘other’ novel, by Leabeth Abt

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Jeff Abt
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  July 14th saw the release of Harper Lee’s ‘other’ novel, and Go Set a Watchman has caused a flurry of activity in the literary world, especially among English Teachers, that iconic group who love to intersperse their daily conversations … Continue reading →

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Visit the Local Nursery When Traveling

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Jeff Abt
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     I was off in San Antonio this last week to visit the grandchildren. While there I made a visit to a nearby nursery. Getting out of town to see new things is always refreshing., even if it is … Continue reading →

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Brad Underwood on SFA “…It is a special place”

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Jeff Abt
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Hasn’t the Lumberjacks Basketball team had a good year? The whole of East Texas is proud of them. I admit it I’m a fan – SFA has a strong basketball tradition.  In the old days when I went to collage, … Continue reading →

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Confluence of My Two Passions

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Jeff Abt
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“Jeff says you may want to have a dictionary handy for today. To his amazement, Jeff discovered that his iphone’s dictionary app was keeping a history of the words he looked up during the course of his reading in 2013, so he has tried … Continue reading →

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The flowering dogwood has no peer when it comes to beauty and elegance

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Jeff Abt
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The bloom of dogwood trees and the Christian Easter season is a serendipitous occurrence. The tree is renowned for its Christian symbolism. Let me recount just a few: The Cross is represented by the four “petals” (bracts) of many dogwood flowers … Continue reading →

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