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“All my plants have a story,” says Baudelia Arredondo, who has tended the same garden for over 50 years at her family’s home on Candlelight Lane in Sunset Acres. Built in 1966, her house was one of the first in a new subdivision adjoining Interstate 35 when the family began landscaping a bare lot. planting two pecan trees and lining the front walk with boxwood. As plants became established, the Arredondo home was chosen as an early yard of the month for San Marcos. As Spring Lake Garden Club repeats this honor some 50 years later, we celebrate Baudelia’s remarkable gardening skills, practiced even while she was employed full time and raising a family.

One of the most important roles of live theater is that it gives audiences a window — or sometimes a mirror — of empathy through which we can view the world. The theater is a safe space, but not one without discomfort. It’s a place where the stakes are not life and death, where we might be inspired to action or moved to tears, but at the end of the show, the lights go up, the curtains close, and the audience returns to normal life.

Central Texans who always procrastinate planting cool season color better be on top of it this year if they want Rockin dianthus. This was a new series last year and disappeared quickly. Rockin dianthus is coming out of Pan American Seed. And is perennial in zones 5a-8b. That is a huge area geographically meaning happiness for gardeners everywhere.

Not everyone likes squirrels.

Last week we started talking about a Resource Recycling newsletter article concerning a report. The report was by the nation’s largest waste and recycling hauler, the Houston-based Waste Management (WM) company. Today we will continue with it. We’ll start with the recycling of PET plastic bottles (Number 1 on the recycling symbol of chasing arrows; think soft drink bottles).

SAN MARCOS PUBLIC LIBRARY

Column for September 27, 2020 Veterans Patrol

The San Marcos Public Library reopened to the public on Wednesday, September 16. The facility is now open for Grab & Go check out of library materials, computer use, and printing Monday through Saturday from 12:00 to 3:00 PM and Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.

I am not usually a timid, finicky eater; I do not shy away from spicy dishes and will devour menudo and raw oysters with gusto.