Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor.

The Sheriff’s Office received 199 calls for service since Jan. 1.

Paul and Nila Dowlearn-Owners of Wichita Valley Nursery. Paul’s recent books, “The Lazy Man’s Garden” and “Touch the Earth” are available at the Nursery, 5314 S.W. Pkwy, Wichita Fall, Texas.

The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/ libby/.

Right now it is 37(f) in The Falls. It is just after noon and, according to yesterday’s forecast should be snowing right now. Very little precip has fallen so far. Anticipating the snowfall, I have a pot roast sitting in the cast iron Dutch oven atop our vintage cast iron stove. I’m happy with that.

The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/libby/.

Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor.

Paul and Nila Dowlearn-Owners of Wichita Valley Nursery. Paul’s recent books, “The Lazy Man’s Garden” and “Touch the Earth” are available at the Nursery, 5314 S.W. Pkwy, Wichita Fall, Texas.

The Sheriff’s Office received 83 Calls for Service during the past seven day period ending Sunday, Dec. 27. On the day of this report there were 25 individuals incarcerated in the Archer County Jail consisting of 23 men and two women.

My last article for the year and I want to share the grandest of epiphanies. Plants, left to their own culture and growing habits, do not need us at all. We need them and without them mankind simply would not exist. Think on it.