Sharing your story

Body My daughters gave me a storytelling program as a gift for my recent birthday. It’s set up so that once a week I receive a writing prompt from questions they have created for me to answer.

Ham an Easter tradition

Body Sitting down at the table for a holiday meal is typically a large part of the Easter festivities. It is, by tradition, to help celebrate the end of the Lenten season, and that Christ has risen.Commonly, the star on the dinner table is a baked ham.

Mice, rats, foxes, screwworms, aliens

Body When it comes to mice, how about those sticky mousetraps? If nothing else, they’re sticky. Very sticky.If you’re into catch and release, they work, so I’ve heard. But the thought of detaching a live mouse from a sticky trap brings all sorts of questions to my mind.

Raised beds for the garden

Body The gardening itch pent up all winter comes unshackled in April, and it’s time to get started in the garden. Gardeners ready to change up their approach and do something that varies from ordinary row plots might find raised beds are a solution.

2026 CAPROCK PUBLIC AND CIVIC MEETINGS

Body Public and Civic Meetings ComingUpPlease let us know of any corrections: caprockcourier@gmail.comVOTING INFORMATION FOR MAY 2 ELECTION: last day to register for vote in your local elections is Thursday, April 2. Early voting will be April 20-28.

Contradictions and other thoughts

Body Below are some random things that float around in my head when I am trying to make sense of the world after calling it a day. It’s not a wise move on my part as it often impedes my ability to drift off to sleep.Acknowledging contradictions and paradoxes is an age-old exercise.

Aboard the USS Enterprise

Body Donald Hocutt of Marshall us the Veterans Affairs Officer for Harrison County. He was a Navy Seal and remains in contact with his fellow Seal teammates. “What I do is make sure our local veterans get what benefits they deserve.

Agency launches low-cost spay and neuter program across state

Body AUSTIN— DSHS has launched a new sterilization program for dogs and cats after receiving $13 million in state funding to support the initiative for two years. The funds are allocated to 38 applicants to perform these procedures across the state.

Tips for pruning roses

Body West Texas spring weather is unpredictable. This spring season is almost a month ahead of schedule in a normal year, which presents a challenge when planning routine gardening tasks like pruning roses. Roses are usually among the last of the landscape plants to be pruned.

Tumbleweeds get around

Body Could a tumbleweed by any other name be an icon of the American West?Probably not. Especially since the other name is Russian thistle.Either way, we’re stuck with the ubiquitous born-toroll plants — green and growing or dead and blowing between fences.