The on-campus diamonds—baseball and softball—will be ready for 2016, and everyone is pretty excited about that. However, both of the current ball parks will be missed—for different reasons. Llano folks, who go to a lot of games, probably don’t stop and notice that the outgoing softball field probably has as much a rural touch to it as any of its sisters in the state.
There are so many things to do here in the Texas Hill Country – and many of them can be little day trips only as far as the surrounding towns. One thing you might consider adding to your list is a visit to the Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve in Mason.
UIL Concert and Sight-reading
Members of the Black (Varsity) and Orange (Non-Varsity) Bands from LJH recently competed in the Region 7 UIL Concert and Sight-reading Contest. The contest for the region was held at Llano High School. For the concert portion, each band performs a march and two selections from the UIL list, for a panel of three judges.
UIL Concert and Sight-reading
Members of the Black (Varsity) and Orange (Non-Varsity) Bands from LJH recently competed in the Region 7 UIL Concert and Sight-reading Contest. The contest for the region was held at Llano High School. For the concert portion, each band performs a march and two selections from the UIL list, for a panel of three judges.
The Llano FFA Livestock and Meats teams competed at the State contest on Saturday, May 2nd at Texas A&M in College Station. The State contest is comprised of the top 15% of teams from each of the ten areas in the state.
The Livestock team finished 6th at state out of 92 total teams.
This year’s Llano County Beef & Range Field Day is set for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the John L. Kuykendall Arena & Events Center, 2200 Ranch Road 152, about 1.7 miles west of Llano. The program will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. and there is no charge to the participant.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is making $30 million available to farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs to develop new product lines. Funding will be made available through USDA's Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.
Farmers and ranchers are creative people who, with a little help, can put that creativity to work and improve the bottom line for their operations,"
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is making $30 million available to farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs to develop new product lines. Funding will be made available through USDA's Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.
Farmers and ranchers are creative people who, with a little help, can put that creativity to work and improve the bottom line for their operations,"
With the spring rains we are experiencing, our gardens and the countryside are ablaze with various shades of green and vibrant color. We have been blessed, and hopefully, these rains will continue into the summer months.
If you have cool-season flowers such as pansies or snapdragons they are most likely looking pretty spent by now with the rising temperatures, remove them to the compost pile and plant warm-season ones.
The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I were sitting on the back porch admiring the close of the day. Nothing is more relaxing than sitting together drinking coffee, glad that another day has quietly slipped by.
Out of the clear blue sky my wife said, "Aren't those flowers just magnificent?"
I grunted a little grunt of satisfaction to which she replied, "Which do you like?
