"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.The second best time is now." (Sent to me by Anita, a friend in San Antonio)When we bought the ranch nine years ago, the first thing Stew and I did was put a fence around it. We'd been warned …
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San Miguel's Fake Spring
While our compatriots back home suffer through daily charges and countercharges of "fake news," in San Miguel we're in the middle of our fake spring, a teaser season that comes about three months before the rains and the real spring arrives. Fake spring brings warmer temperatures, mid seventies at midday and mid forties at midnight, and …
Spring's slow march begins
It sounds a bit off-key, if not altogether callous, to bring up this subject after all the hurricanes, wild temperature fluctuations and now a winter storm that have hit the northern United States recently. But I must report the news: About a week, maybe ten days, ago spring definitely began to stir around the ranch, …
El Rancho Santa Clara 