We Baby Boomers remember the original energy crisis when gas was rationed based on your license plate.

Ella and her neighbors at the camp have an encounter with Comanches.

The blog, Prep School Daily, is a great resource for preparedness. Here are some articles detailing the benefits of gardening.

Cognitive Benefits
Psychological Benefits
Physiology Benefits

Automating garden tasks like watering is a huge help. Here is a link to an irrigation timer that can really help.

Irrigation Timer

People and merch watching at Walmart can be very educational. You can learn a lot about the society in an area by what goes on at Walmart.

Ella, like Louvenia, married a Texas Ranger and lived in the Ranger camps. However, she and her husband went on to other adventures, including buffalo hunting!

Tuesday morning our low was 25° F! That's chilly for us in Winter, much less Spring! The ability to cover and protect new plants in the garden is important. Here's a link to the garden clips I use:

Garden Clips

This is the time to learn gardening. It can be as cheap or as expensive as you choose. There is loads of free information on gardening online and available from your county extension office. Take advantage of it! Plus, a Scottish study found that gardening decreases our risk of developing dementia by 35%!

Get outside and grow something!

We finish up Lou's adventures with the Texas Rangers.

Today is the 52nd anniversary of a day that fundamentally changed my life. I was 17 years old. "New normal" wasn't a thing then, but that's exactly what happened.