We will miss our community mentor, Johnnie Bindseil.  He saw value in our recording sessions and kept the "welcome to our community" spirit always open.  He wanted to keep Spicewood's history alive and its stories available for us and for the young ones.  Johnnie was one of the good ones.  We will never see the Community Center without thinking of you!  Thank you!

This episode runs a little longer than usual but we are sure you will find it interesting!  Amy and Keith Everitt kindly and gently enlightened us about the venomous snakes in our area and what to expect if we see them.  And yes, we saw them for the first time in 15 years on our property!  Two rattlesnakes!

Are you safer and more secure in an urban setting?  Are there methods to keep them away?

Glean as much knowledge and common sense as you can and do send me your snake stories at [email protected]

We may be creating another episode on the topic soon!

Have you seen or heard one?  Is there more that one can do other than panic or pee from fright?  There is a lot of information on mountain lions (aka: puma, catamount, panther) on the internet but we wanted a more definitive guide on the subject, so we asked a biologist from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to weigh in.

Erin Weyland shared her thoughts on that and on some of the local critters.  It turns out that she is more afraid of something much smaller than the lion and it is much more prevalent throughout Texas.

Gail confesses that she retreated all wrong and if you run, that you should be at least faster than your husband!

Pet funeral directors, Scott and Tony, guided us through the final steps in giving our pup Ginger a warm and dignified farewell. We hope that our loss and this interview helps you with understanding how to approach the options and decisions that are available for pets in our area.

We round out our chat with the ladies.

This is the next best thing to chatting with the pups.  The ladies give us details and background on their charges.

Brittany and Jay give us a virtual tour of their facility and how they work to give struggling pups a chance to find their forever home.

Reintroducing our show and thanking a listener!

Our nurse practitioner is followed up by the project's director and a local client who is a recipient of the study's ambitions.  Gail and I had asked for an update on the study being made of the Spicewood residents who most need the social services.

How many of us know about this sweet museum right in our midst?

We began with a private docent-led tour and finished with a group of nearly a dozen other citizens of all ages and country-wide origins.  We all enjoyed spirited history telling of our local settlers and we continued on to learn about the geology of the area and how it impacted the building of the state capitol!

Add on the paleontology, the Mormon mill reconstruction, the period clothes, the rooms filled with items of recently passed historical items!

On this visit we chatted with Darlene Oostermeyer, a vice chairman on the board of directors and with board member Danielle Meredith.  You will love their insights on the museum's history as much as we did!.

Marble Falls did this right and you need to come visit!