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As mentioned last week, from a Resource Recycling newsletter, we find every year Americans throw away around 45 billion aluminum used beverage cans (UBC). And these landfilled cans are estimated to be worth about $800 million. (This waste is a Bummer!)

My journey last week began with a telephone call from Houston. “This is M------; I’m the daughter of ‘R’. My mom and my sister were both baptized at Redwood Baptist Church.”

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Recently along a stretch of Devil’s Backbone, people have been lining up their cars near a public-access picnic area to watch the setting sun. When conditions are right—and in the Hill Country, they often are—spectators can view a broad swath of the Milky Way, multiple planets, and since April, the Comet Neowise.

Truffula Pink gomphrena has already been hotter than the proverbial twodollar pistol but The Garden Guy is here to tell you, it is even better than we thought. It has been the champion of all butterfly plants at my house and if your peak butterfly season is September/October and you find them for sale, BUY THEM.

Perhaps it’s natural for humans to seek patterns in randomness.

This year ‘The Garden Guy’ decided to add some dwarf buddleia into his arsenal of pollinator plants. The idea of 3-foot tall or less buddleias, or butterfly bushes, seemed like just what the doctor ordered to be able to incorporate them with lantanas, rudbeckias, gaillardia and salvias for a colorful wild Serengetistyle backyard habitat. Lo and behold, I have a found a Garden Guy favorite.

In our home, we recycle all our aluminum used beverage cans (UBC), just as most of you probably also do. (And getting a little change for them is a nice benefit in some places.) However, it surprised us how many cans are not recycled.

My journey this week takes me to Rommie Loudd, a friend I made at my first pastorage in Winters, Texas, in 1986. His witness helped build my faith.