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Christmas was good this year, but still tough on my little family. The loss of Kacie and Joni’s dad doesn’t stay out of our minds. His birthday was Christmas day and he always called me weeks in advance to let me know what sweet I had to make for him. He didn’t share either. He was a Marine and his smart remarks kept us all on our toes. This year was a little more lighthearted and we laughed a lot, but that chair was still empty.
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For many years I have listed the names of people that have ties to the Keith community that have passed away. This year they are Landon Reed Chatman, Brady A. Hand, Harold Gene Dudley, Rev. Bill Adkisson, Ima Merle Burns McDuffie, Jack Jernigan, Gail Jernigan, Joyce Dudley Rice, David Moore, Ruby Lavender Stuckey, James Dixon Sr., Raymond Pirtle, Harley Lee Stabler, Jon Karl Proskine, Carolyn Kellogg, Bonie Keller. Donald Gaylor, Betty Jo Vaughn Dane and Travis Stewart and John D. Bretling. Do hope I have not missed anyone. May their memories be forever blessed.
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The Salvation Army in Grimes County provides financial assistance with utility and rent bills, clothing, shoes, food and personal hygiene items. They will be at First United Methodist Church, 616 Holland St., Navasota Thursday, Jan. 25, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. You must have a valid photo ID and current lease agreement bill that you need assistance with. For more information call, 936-825-3342.
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Cornus florida, flowering dogwood, is a deciduous tree native to the U.S. and Mexico. It’s known for its striking white, sometimes pink, “flowers” that aren’t really flowers. They are four white 3-inch bracts with reddish-brown indentations that surround several 0.25 inch inconspicuous fragrant yellow-green flowers. Sometimes growing only a few centimeters per year, dogwoods can be 35 to 40 feet tall and live 80 years.
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Recent research of the Somerville 1842 campaign of driving a facet of the Mexican Army back across the Rio Grande into Mexico that led to the infamous Mier Expedition, I ran across a most “under told” history of a Texan teenager, John Christopher Columbus Hill.
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The 3rd annual St. Stanislaus Christmas Eve meal was a huge success. Approximately 125 plates were delivered to various families or homebound persons. Thanks to coordinators Charlie and Jenni Abraham and their children Tyler, Hannah, Will and Jessica for all their hard work. A big thank you to those who brought prepared food, those who volunteered to make plates and those who signed up to deliver them. You will be blessed from above.
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“There is probably no single person in Southern history more revered than General Robert Edward Lee,” states historian Jeff Carroll in his book Being Texan. Few know that General Lee spent more military time in Texas than he did as President of the Confederacy.
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Vitex agnus-castus, vitex, is native to Asia and the Mediterranean region. Now common in Grimes County landscapes, it’s believed that vitex came to North America in the 17th century. It is easily recognizable because of its spikes of showy, purple flowers. Bees, butterflies and other insects enjoy the nectar which produces excellent honey. It is usually from 3 to 10 feet tall and may be as wide with twisty multiple trunks. Leaves are olive green and palmately compound. Flowers and leaves are aromatic. Dark brown fruit is a drupe, berry-like. Beautiful and hardy, vitex is prized as a long-lived cut flower. The Texas Department of Transportation, txdot.gov, has recommended it for plantings in the median of some state highways.
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