The Kerrville Times from Kerrville, Texas • Page 21

Lifestyle Sunday, November 7, 1993 Kerrville Daily Times Page 3C Heartful words may come from a 'stickery heart 9 I was married and raising a small child when the 60's was booming its weird new philosophy so it held no attraction for me, but I remember that the kids of that era were discovering karma. Suddenly everyone thought that turban-headed guys wrapped in sheets knew everything there was to know about life, when their every waking hour was spent sitting on a pillow somewhere in a backward society. In the 60's and 70's if you happened to overhear two youths discussing someone, eventually their karma was mentioned. "He has bad karma, Marjorie Hooker Heart to heart the time I couldn't have told you if karma meant unruly hair or foot odor. I just wasn't 'into' anything that didn't involve recipes, home decorating or baby bottles.

Now days you hear a lot of people saying, "what goes around comes around." Now, I can identify with this because I have read the original source of this wisdom and I know, for sure, what it means (Gal. It isn't often that we can change the behavior of other people but we know for a surety that if their actions harm others that they'll get theirs sooner or later. An older lady in my family used to say, "Well, they'll get their comeuppance one fine day." I remember years (and years) ago, when I was little, I had told a family member, "Mrs. Harper (a neighbor of ours) says mean things about people." Why does she do that? I had asked. My relative, a wise uncle, held up a hand for me to wait a minute and he walked over and picked something up off the ground.

When he returned he was holding a small pine cone that had dropped off a large pine tree that grew nearby. "See thisr Yes, I said. "Well, this pine cone once held a lot of seeds. When it opened, it dropped the seeds to the ground and if they take root, more pine trees will grow. Mrs.

Harper's heart is kind of like this pine cone, but instead of Local businesses meet United Way challenge KERRVILLE The Ken- County United Way Campaign is well underway and businesses are being challenged to meet this year's 100 percent employee participation goal. "It doesn't matter if you are a large or small business, it is the spirit of giving that makes the difference. Every dollar helps and every person is needed and important," said Betty Mosty, campaign chairman. "We are about the work of changing lives and making a difference in this communtiy and we need you. Only by joining together will we realize the hope and the joy that can be brought to hundreds of our friends and neighbors." Small businesses like the Lovin' Spoonful, as well as large companies like K-Mart and Nation's Bank, have already met the challenge.

Spoonful owner Brandi Weatherford dedicated all her profits from Oct. 23 to United Way. "I had made a prior committ- ment ot myself to set aside the day for United Way. This fact was not even known to the public and business was about double that day, which was a real surprise," Weatherford said. "It was a joy that we could give that much more to United Way." Weatherford encourages other businesses to donate an hour, day, etc.

to the United Way. For more information call the United Way office at 257-4677 or 257-6585. Kerr County United Way is not a part of the National United Way. All funds raised remain in Kerr County. Brandy Weatherford, owner of Lovin' Spoonful restaurant, presents United Way Campaign Chairman Betty Mosty a check for one day's worth of receipts that she donated to United Way.

(Times photo by Ken November is important month for gardeners November is an important month for certain garden activities. Fall fertilizing. Even though we've had freezing A temperatures it is not too late to "fertilize your lawns, shrubs, and trees. A good fertilizer would be ulow release, with a 3-1-2 or 4-1-2 ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and about 12 percent sulfur and micro-nutrients. Tests have shown that plants fertilized in the fall will over-winter better and be healthier in the spring.

Wildflower seeds. October and November are the optimum months here for broadcasting wildflower seeds. If you want stunning wildflowers next spring, don't delay putting the John Colemart Hill Country Gardening seeds out now. Remember bluebonnet seeds are as scarified or unscarified. With the scarified seeds, you will get a much higher germination rate, but they are somewhat more expensive.

Bulbs for spring flowers. These bulbs are best set out now. I prefer the naturalizing bulbs like narcissus, daffodils, grape hyacinth, and iris. Recently available are tulips that will naturalize here because they have low chilling requirements. Most tulips have long chilling requirements, such that they must be refrigerated for six weeks before planting or they won't bloom properly.

This long chilling requirement is the reason most tulips naturalize here, that is, come back year after year when left in the ground. Of course, the bulbs could be dug up in the fall, refrigerated for six weeks, and then replanted. But this seems like a lot of trouble when the natura- lizing tulip bulbs are available. Hyacinth bulbs are like most tulips-in that they require refrigeration, except for the grape hyacinth, which will naturalize here without refrigeration. Incidentally, hyacinth do great indoors in a bulb vase.

Perennials. With our recent sub-freezing temperatures, perennials will die back to their roots. To protect the roots from freezing in a hard winter, about three inches of pine bark mulch should be placed over the root system. John Colwnan owner of thi Grwrury and Cwtlfted NurMiy Xmas cards (Continued from page 1C) drugs M.D. Anderson faculty are mindful of youngsters' educational and social needs during and after their treatment Virtually all of the Christmas card- funded programs emphasize normal childhood development for young patients.

In all, more than 50 programs have been created to support the educational, recreational, and emotional needs of patients and their families. For the first time in the project's 20-year history and to commemorate its special anniversary the card project now offers a journal and stationery featuring artwork designed by young cancer patients. Cards are sold in packages of 20 for $9. Deluxe cards come in packages of 10 for $10. Also available for $6 is the Collector's Edition VIII, an assortment of popular Christmas designs from previous years.

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He reveals exactly how the process works and how to con- truct a Topsy-Turvy frame in a brochure he plans to advertise by mail in gardening and seed magazines. He says that tomatoes grown by this process don't taste any different. "They just taste like good ol' home grown tomatoes," Vorgity said. He added that there are a great number of benefits to growing tomatoes in this way. For example: no staking is required; it eliminates weeding; it is a controlled method of watering and fertilizing; and tomatoes can be grown anywhere in apartments, or even inside garages in the winter.

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10-15 Dally 10 AM-8 PM 1305 Sidney Baker Sunday 12 Noon-6 PM Kerrville, Tx. 78028 holding seeds that will grow beautiful things, her heart holds a lot of ugly feelings." He put the hard prickly pine cone into my hand and I looked at it. Mrs. Harper sure must have a stickery heart, I thought, and from then on I felt sorry for her. Even as a child, I knew a stickery heart must really hurt.

I recently talked with a lovely young.woman who had been hurt by a cutting remark someone had made about her. "How can someone say they know my motives or what is in my heart when they don't even know me?" she asked. some jealousy at this and that the the hurtful word ied because they most probably felt inferior in tome way. She thought al tout it for a moment and said al was going to have to work it tirough. Later, she told me she liad prayed about it and the feel botaged had fin Now as I told lutelynothinga if I were to guess about it, that the one hurt and ill wil karma, man.

I told her that there must be the root of all one who said was to be pit- Retired officers may receive free membership in national organ KERRVILLE Lt. Col. Ed Schlieter, president of the Texas Hill Country Chapter of the Retired Officers Association, has received information from National Headquarters in Washington regarding a new membership initiative. "Between now and the end of 1993, any person joining the Hill Country Chapter will automatically, with no extra charge, receive a one ye in the national said Schlieter. Membership ngofbeing sally left her.

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