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Sunday Observations by Christy
Yesterday as Mom and I were coming home from the grocery store, I had a truck following so closely I thought he was trying to hitch a ride in my back seat. Mom mentioned how bad the drivers seem today, and I said, it’s lack of respect. Across the board. On everything. I don’t care what the issue is, what problem we are facing, if you simply respect your fellow man, you can improve the situation. I didn’t say like
them. I said respect. Seriously, we could improve our world ten fold by doing that one thing. Did you know when you tailgate, and drive aggressively you show no respect for someone else’s life? I commonly say, hey you want to kill yourself get after it, but don’t take me with you! Did you know when you rush a store and take more product than you need, you have no respect for others? That maybe
taking what you need allows others to get what they need? Did you know when you try to force your personal opinion on those who differ from you, you have no respect for others? Their right to their own thoughts and beliefs? The list is endless, but I promise you, increased respect for others, will only help our society. I challenge you, look at any situation, and if a little respect for a fellow human beings thoughts, beliefs, and lives was added, 9/10 of the time the outcome would be better. I don’t understand how we have reached this point. That our thoughts are the only ones that are right. That we are the smartest, most worthy, human being. That no one else has a thought that might have relevance. That everyone that doesn’t believe and act as we do, must be stupid. Who made you the know all of all? It all makes a huge circle, back to respect. Are parents even teaching respect for others anymore?
Wait….. that’s the origin of the problem. Because if your toddler hears you constantly telling others how stupid they are, or belittling someone, talking trash behind their backs….. guess what you just taught your toddler??? THAT DISRESPECT IS
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ACCEPTABLE. So don’t be shocked when your teen is a hot mess of a smart mouth. Whew!!! Happy Sunday peeps. Can we reinstate respect? Teach tolerance? Maybe have a class on “if you have nothing nice to say then say nothing”? Maybe
an ap that shuts our phone off if we are rude online? Name a problem….. I promise respect will either solve it….. or lessen the blow. You are not superior to me, nor am I to you. I just respect you enough to allow you to live your life. Now, can I live mine?
WOODS, WATERS, and WILDLIFE
FEBRUARY FREEZE AND TROUT By John Jefferson
But, Baby, it got cold last week! And it carried over into this week. It got almost as cold as the one in February 2021, but it didn’t last as long. We didn’t have as much ice and snow, and the sun helped by coming out more. We recently cut down a big, dead limb on our mulberry tree and added it to our woodpile which already had a pickup full of fresh firewood in it from our January foray, so our furniture was never in danger of becom-
ing fuel this year. And our electricity kept working throughout the current freeze! Water was another matter. The City of Austin had assured us that they had everything under control … but they didn’t. We’re presently under a “boil water” order. What I don’t know at this point is whether the Texas coast suffered enough to inflict more damage to an already diminished speckled trout population from last year’s fish-killing freeze. You’ll recall that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission took emergency action on March
24, 2021, temporarily altering spotted seatrout regulations in response to the significant fish kill that resulted from February 2021’s severe freeze. Some 3.8 million fish were killed in that extended freeze, including 61 species. Spotted sea trout, commonly known as speckled trout -- or just as “specks” -- were significantly hammered. A species doesn’t recover overnight from that type of carnage. To assist in a speedy recovery, TPWD reduced the daily limit for speckled trout in the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre to three and the slot
