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LOCAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE EDITION AUGUST 2015 Texas Skies Breakfast Foods Statewide Radio Network DEER CAMP Keeping families and friends on common ground for generations kubota.com © Kubota Tractor Corporation, 2015 August Since 1944 2015 FAVORITES Clouds roll in above U.S. Highway 385 18 Local Co-op News north of Marathon. Get the latest information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative. 29 Texas History Radio Nexus of Texas By Bob McCullough 31 Recipes Breakfast Foods 35 Focus on Texas Photo Contest: Around the Farm 36 Around Texas List of Local Events 38 Hit the Road A Kerrville Keepsake By Rob McCorkle ONLINE TexasCoopPower.com Find these stories online if they don’t appear in your edition of the magazine. FEATURES Texas USA Texas Skies Lessons Learned on the Rio Grande Pondering weather — calamitous or calm — By E.R. Bills 8 connects us to the natural world Story and photos by E. Dan Klepper Observations Bang for Your Buck Right With the World Deer lease memories keep By Clay Coppedge 12 families and friends on common ground for generations Story and photos by Mike Leggett NEXT MONTH Showtime at the Charreada The Mexican forebear to American rodeo emphasizes style and tradition. 29 35 31 38 SKY: E. DAN KLEPPER. CHARRO: FRANÇOISE DE VALERA JAMES | DREAMSTIME.COM ON THE COVER Bonds formed in the field and around a campsite can last a lifetime. Photo by Earl Nottingham | TPWD TEXAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Jerry B. Boze, Chair, Kaufman; David Marricle, Vice Chair, Muleshoe; Mark Tamplin, Secretary-Treasurer, Kirbyville; Debra A. Cole, Itasca; Mike R. Hagy, Tipton, Oklahoma; Robert A. 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I am part Native health. It was torture for us both. American (Choctaw) and adopted Much like Laurie’s mother, Mama put her and raised a full-blood Navajo affairs in order, gave away things to people daughter. America is my country, she chose, saw all who she could and pre- and I stand proud, not only of my pared for her last days. heritage but of my country. Laurie helped me tremendously with her JERRI FAULDS | HIGHLAND VILLAGE words: “Mama showed me how to die.” I watched my own mother starve when COSERVE ELECTRIC her body could no longer tolerate food, and the effort to eat was too much. In response to the comment in SHAWNEE BOWLIN | ATLANTA | BOWIE-CASS EC Letters, I am grateful that Colum- bus discovered America and it progressed to the great nation in which we live. American Indians have had a lot of influence on the right direction to help the only 115 German settlers in Texas sack material in the early ’60s, and American life. public, which is in need of some before 1836. Many later settlers those outfits are still around and It is my understanding that the discipline with its food choices. died at sea from bubonic plague, passed down to their daughters. North American Indians migrated JERI PORTER | FISCHER and because inland transportation LOUISE GROHMAN | LOYAL VALLEY here from somewhere in Asia. PEDERNALES EC wasn’t available, hundreds died of CENTRAL TEXAS EC I guess that when they got here, the plague in Indianola. Along the they settled the land and estab- A Different View wagon trails, there were visible lished their culture. It seems like of 1833 Texas burial mounds, reminders of the the American Indians should be the “Journey to Texas, 1833” by Detlef many who died on the trek to the GET MORE TCP AT ones complaining about Columbus’ Dunt [May 2015] quotes the diary Hill Country. TexasCoopPower.com “mistake.” After all, their race has of someone who describes life Early German settlers dealt with Find more letters online in the truly been discriminated against in new Texas as paradise. The illus- many hardships but adapted to Table of Contents. Sign up for in this country. tration, with its well-built homes strange food, different climate our E-Newsletter for monthly BEN MOORE | COMAL COUNTY and waterfront, seems a bit ahead and new types of housing. It was updates, prize drawings and more! PEDERNALES EC of what was happening in Texas difficult, but they did it! in 1833. NAOMI MITCHUM | HOUSTON WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Eating Healthy Portions One example is the Johann AND NEW BRAUNFELS ONLINE: TexasCoopPower.com/share I was delighted to find recipes in Friedrich Ernst family, which settled PEDERNALES EC EMAIL: [email protected] the March 2015 edition that con- in Austin County in 1831, living in a MAIL: Editor, Texas Co-op Power, tained healthy ingredients and thatched-roof hut made of logs and Flour Sack Dresses 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, proper nutritional content for a moss, which was not always water- I read in the Letters in the April Austin, TX 78701 reasonable diet. So often the proof or warm. In 1838, he built a and May issues about the feed sack Please include your town and electric co-op. Letters may be edited for clarity and length. recipes look great, but no way am large house that served as an oasis clothing [“Feeding Their Fashion I cooking anything with 800 calo- for immigrants. Sense,” February 2015]. I made ries or more per serving. 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