I’m in Austin. We have a partial shade front lawn - a little direct sun in the morning, no direct sun in the afternoon - and put in Zoysia grass a few years ago. It has done well in the shade and is pretty drought tolerant as well when that’s an issue.
Shipley’s ownership changed in July 2025 (from one private equity firm to another). Our local shop’s quality and customer service has declined sharply since then.
The other day I saw a lawn crew pulling a trailer full of equipment with a cybertruck, which to me indicates someone dumped theirs on the resale market.
In that grand American tradition youtu.be/e_XiJQsVAUo?...
In the 80s/90s in my school district, there was a multi-factor qualification process (Stanford-Binet test, state stand progress test, teacher recommendation, class grades, and one other I can’t remember.) If you met 3 of the 5, you could take gifted classes. They converted to a single test later
Isn’t it in large part that all of this [waves hand around vaguely] feels bad and we’ve been told that things would be better if we just had more money? So what’s making us feel bad must be the fact that we don’t have enough money? And we don’t have have enough money because things cost more?
I assume that a donor has property there and doesn’t like paying taxes.
This is a good overview of what is going on - franklinstrong.substack.com/p/new-braunfels-isd-is-gaslighting
One was a manager of a grain elevator in the Midwest. The other was a tenant farmer in Northeast Texas who later held a series of blue collar jobs.
I’m in Williamson County, Texas. The county still had countywide polling places for early voting. Only Election Day voting had to be at precinct locations.
That was my kid in 7th grade - big noggin.
A 6 million sq ft Samsung plant is supposed to open there within the next year, which will likely lead to significant population growth. While I don’t know if they need a building of this magnitude, they are planning for the future.
I’m watching Sex and the City for the first time (30 years later). Feels like it will be a good one for that. The only thing I got mad at with Dawson’s Creek was why Joey wanted Dawson when Pacey was right there.
Is that a stock tank they’re calling a “lake”?
How to push your chair in when you get up from a table.
This is a Christmas standard! m.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Nc...
Even without the rest, the use of the word “editoress” told me everything I needed to know about this guy.
I remind myself semi-regularly of Tressie McMillan Cottom’s statement: “The institution cannot love you.”
I was an English major, so it was nice to have a 15-20 person class on Shakespeare with the head of the department.
My experience at A&M in the 90s was that they were smaller classes with more emphasis on discussion. Made a difference in entry level classes, not so much in upper level.
At A&M, it meant I got to register for classes first, which allowed me to never have an 8 am class. Also, it was a pretty democratic honors program then, if you had a certain GPA, you got to take honors classes. No application or admission process.
I recognize I’m just an old Gen X lawyer, but doesn’t anyone use Westlaw or Lexis anymore?
One, but always peanut butter first.
I originally got it because a coworker ended up being the executor for someone she didn’t know who left her estate to a nonprofit the coworker is involved in. The hassles she had tracking down bonds, banking accounts, etc. were a lot. The worst was trying to close out subscriptions to various things
I am in the process of setting up this for my husband and myself: thenokbox.com. Also getting for my parents and mother-in-law. It‘s a set of pre-printed forms to fill out with a lot of info you might not think of.
It’s got me thinking of the ways that many young men online especially are just a modern version of this:
Thank you for bringing this into my life. Those cactus earrings!
Since I have a pretty good sense of how big Texas is from driving around the state, I look at thetruesize.com and either drag Texas over the unfamiliar place or drag both Texas and the place to the middle of the North Atlantic to compare visually. It registers better with me than doing the math.
