Bandera Library Happenings

Thinking about picking up a new hobby or rekindling an old one? Check out the Watercolor Group. They meet each Monday, at 10 a.m. These talented artists are more than willing to share a few pointers with those so inclined.
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Growing Up In Bandera

It's been a number of years since we replaced the last screen door on our house with a storm door. I have mixed emotions about that particular modernization. A slamming screen door always brings to mind one of my childhood transgressions, as it seems I was always in a hurry heading out the back door at home. Luckily there were enough kids around so when my mom hollered out "Stop slamming that screen door!!!,” she didn't know which kid was actually causing her the irritation. 
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This month at the Medina Library

Medina Quilting Club’s 14th annual Quilt Fest will be Saturday, Sept. 21, through Friday, Sept. 27. Admission is free. Also, Laura Levy’s Nature Photography will be on display through Sept. 27.
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Lakehills Library Leanings

The September Book Sale will take place on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the library meeting room. The October Book Sale will be Oct. 5, also from 10 to 2.
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Sublime rambling

A local friend recently told me she had, as part of her physical exam, a Medical Age Assessment test. Of course, I asked, “What the heck it that?” When she described it to me, I realized that it’s the same thing as the Real Age test I took a couple of times myself.
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I’m Getting Married in the Morning

Seems that Dearly Demented Mom’s got something that I haven’t got because she’s about to get married. I know what you’re thinking. How does a wheelchair-bound woman with dementia date?
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See the latest Caddo Kuntree, by Larry Haddad

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My son’s fish tank is trying to kill me

Last Christmas, Mee Maw bought my son a fish tank with a Betta Fish.  As my son is a nature lover, and desperately wanted a lizard or turtle that no sane pet store would sell a 4-year-old, fish it was.
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Sailing the Pacific
How the Manila galleon shaped international trade

In March of 1521, Portugese explorer Fernando de Magallanes docked off the coast of Cebu in the Philippines, achieving the first European navigation from the Atlantic Ocean to Asia. The same year, Spanish General Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire, expanding the Spanish-owned territory from California to South America.
Divided by the Pacific Ocean, the Spaniards needed a way to commute between their newly-established sovereignty. Thus was the birth of the Manila galleon.
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A Walk Down History Lane
with the Bandera Natural History Museum
How Juan de O'Donojú y O’Ryan helped end the Mexican War for Independence

Mexico's independence from Spain took a decade of war. None expected a Spanish general of Irish descent to play an integral role in achieving peace.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Quetzalcoatlus
Life-size replica on display at the Bandera Natural History Museum

Taller than a giraffe, wider than a city bus, and able to soar over tall buildings in a single bound, the Quetzalcoatlus (pronounced Ket-sol-coh-aht-lus) ruled the skies about 80 million years ago.
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