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The Bedias Women’s Club shares they are cancelling/postponing their annual Veterans Day Dinner and their annual November Country Market event. Mackie shares that the women’s club plans to offer a spring Country Market and host a spring event honoring Bedias area Veterans.
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Have you secured your tickets for a chance to win $11,500 worth of cattle from J&J Cattle Co. as part of the Bedias Vol. Fire Dept. Annual Fundraiser? Don’t miss out! Please go to PayPal @ BVFDfundraiser@yahoo.com. Tickets are $50 each and 1,000 tickets will be sold. Be sure to include your phone number. You can also mail a check to Bedias Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 294, Bedias, TX 77831.
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The Zinnia genus, in the daisy family, has many species native to Central and South America and the American Southwest. Depending on the variety, you may have seen them in Grimes County gardens almost year-round except during the coldest days of winter. Usually on a single 10 to 12-inch upright stem, they come in a variety of colors though the ones I’ve seen have been various shades of yellow, red, and purple. Some have a single color. Some are mixed. Some have a single row of blooms and some have more. Opposite leaves are sessile, clinging to the stem. Named for German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727 - 1759), zinnias are often seen in cut flower arrangements.
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Mary Jane Harris Briscoe was born in 1819 at St. Genevieve, Missouri fatefully next door to the residence of Moses Austin, early dreamer of Texas. Her father, John Harris, fell in with Austin’s idea of the colonization of what became the Republic of Texas.
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It has been so hot lately that my phone has been sending heat advisory alerts. When I left for church on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. it was actually hot and stifling already. Everyone please stay cool and hydrated and don’t forget those pets!
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8.
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We certainly had serval hot days beginning Sunday, July 12 and Monday, July 13 with temperatures in the area of 108. The rest of the week was nicer but still hot. That’s July for you. I guess it’ll be hot for the next 80 or so days.
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In Burnet County, the heart of the Texas hill country, is a dark hole with an even darker history.
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