One more and we're done

We've seen all the signs of spring to include lots of new calves (see photo!), ground squirrels, bluebonnets, mesquites budding and the big one, the return of the buzzards. Sighting a scissor-tail is the only sign left and it seems like they're really more of a symbol of summer. We haven't seen much rain, either, yet. Maybe it's on the way.

I've got a few websites I want to tell you about, the first being the one for the Big Country Audubon Society. This is a direct link listing sightings in northeast Fisher county on August 30, 2008. You can look at photos of Birds of the Big Country and figure out which ones are in your back yard. It's amazing there are so many. I think I can only name about five.

Here's a link to the Garmin Blog that has an article about the Astro GPS being used to track dogs on the Quail Ranch that's located on the corner of US 180 and FM 611. The results of the information collected by the Astro during the study can be downloaded and examined from this link. For more info on products by Garmin, check out the company website.

For agricultural information, you can go to the Western Farm Press site or check out Ag News from Texas A & M AgriLife.

Okay, here's the news you really want, the headlines from the latest issue of the Roby Star Record / Rotan Advance, March 19, 2009:

• City of Rotan Clean Up (photo)
• Rotan ISD renews all personnel contracts, accepts two resignations
• Rotan City Council meets with animal control officer, fields report from City Supervisor
• Rotan, the birthplace of six-man football (photo of Melvin Clements)
• The American Cancer Society Relay for Life, May 1
• Lower Rolling Plains ag conference
• Obituaries for Ava (Head) Leach, Rodolfo Gonzalez
• Birth announcement for Maximus Lee Day (photo)
• CleDon Coffman & Chick Carter file for re-election to hospital board
• Roby City Council election May 5
• Sheriff's report
• Fisher County RV news, next rally March 31
• News Briefs: Third Marine Division Association, Inc. Aug 24
• Fisher County Roundup by Joy Walker: family visits & Crossroads revival last week
• City of Rotan applied to renew waste water disposal permit
• Grain marketing workshop March 26 in Abilene
• The Newspaper Office is closed on Fridays; hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Mon-Thurs
• What happened in Houston, extension agent report
• If you have pre-1969 Rotan & Roby newspapers, please contact the Newspaper Office about adding them to the archive
• Spring sports (photos)

The last word I received on Perry Thomson is that by Friday night the seizures had lessened and his temperature was lower, still high, though, at 102. He is in the Lubbock Cardiology Hospital.