If you aren’t familiar with the gardening conditions in Austin, let me tell you, they’re pretty terrible. Tomatoes in particular have a terrible time of it. Austin hits fatal extremes of heat and cold. You have to plant tomatoes after the danger of frost, but early enough that they fruit before the heat sets in.
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A few years ago, my cousin Kelly put together a list of summer events which she called the Best Summer Ever. This list was optimized for Minneapolis, but it got me thinking that there ought to be a list for Austin. After the summer we had last year, we need a palate-cleanser summer, a summer
For more than ten years now I’ve been going to see the purple martins. Every summer, from around the second week of July until the second week of August, the purple martins form a roost in a conspicuous urban location, typically a parking lot. When the sun sets, they swarm by the hundreds of thousands,