Oh, they also have fat trunked Mexican Fan Palms fairly reasonable too. Richard

I tend to think a bad SM is also a bad mom. If you do the right thing because you are a good person, you (at least try to) do the right thing ALL the time. That's just my philosophy. The father should not be allowing her to make that decision to keep him from seeing his child. If he goes along with it, he's more to blame than she is though, because it's his child and he needs to stand up for his relationship with his child.

Nita would be awesome for you to come hey we can sure do one when ever you can make it, no reason we can't do it more than once as far as I am concerned. Well guess what is happening right this very moment big big rain drops hitting the skylight above my head and it is going to be another downpour the sky has just opened up. big thunderboomers too. At least yesterday we had a little bit of a break and my yard water did go down some, but Cypress creek behind us came up even higher yesterday many of the areas we tried to drive to were flooded, much too close for comfort! These 2 fronts are hung right over us and the area that is between the fronts is what is causing this mess, there is some kind of circular rotation happening causing it. And until something strong comes through and breaks that darn cycle we are trapped under it. That happens often when the moisture off the Gulf hits a front from the West and bam we get the resultant collision. And to make matters worse we did not get to the grocery store yesterday! Good thing my pantry has lots of beans and soup mix in it.

I could be mistaken but I think that Oak wilt has always been here. I know Oak decline was a native pest. The problem was make worse by clearing out all of the other trees that made a barrier to help prevent transmission of the disease. There more trees in Texas than in the past. An old saying goes everywhere white man goes, trees grow. Mesquite trees are native to West Texas but only in the gullys and and ditches. Fire use to control brush. But when we built fences and houses we stopped the wildfires and that caused a greater amount of brush species. My family built a house by some oak trees north of Waco on 70 acres about 40 years ago. One of the liveoaks showed signs of oak decline. It is now about the only big oak tree still alive. My Dad once told me it was just his luck to build a house by 200 year old oak trees only to have them all die over the next 20 years. I think with the wetter weather and multitude of different species, Southeast Texas will not suffer the losses that Central Texas has experienced. It is truly sad at how many oaks trees have died. Pines may be immune to oak wilt but they sure take a beating from lighting and hurricanes. I have lost about 10 pine trees within 100 feet of my house, all over 14 inch diameter and over 70 feet tall.