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Observing Earth Day 2022
There’s No Time Like Now Desert Blooms- The Big Bend When I first started this post yesterday, I found myself climbing up onto the same Soapbox I’ve occupied for too many Earth Days now. Since my years spent Homesteading in the turbulent days of the late 1970s and through the mid 1980s, I’ve been repeating the same message. As have a great number of others. However, while these many voices over the decades have increased awareness and garnered recruits to the cause of this planet, it’s still not enough. Earth Day was first celebrated on…
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Let’s Go Outside
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. John Muir It’s Spring in West Texas As I write this, it is April and we have weeks of Springtime ahead of us still. The weather remains unsettled, see-sawing back and forth between oh so chilly and almost summer-like warmth— between the sublime of perfect sundrenched days, and into a windswept dustbowl that tears the eyes, can chill to the bone, and paints everything in shades of dun and brown. But ahh, those days that tell of the warmer…
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Just West of the Rainbow
Seeing Past the Fear We come into Spring in West Texas, an unsettled time of year at best, in the midst of yet another unsettled situation. These last few years have wore on everyone— from Corona Virus or Covid, to an election that threatened to tear this country apart, and now a War half-way around the world— this country (and so many others) are stressed and divided beyond anything in recent history. I have thought deeply about this of late, and I am saddened that during a period when it seems that people should be…
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Spring Break in Fort Davis TX
March (Spring Break) Events in Fort Davis Old Overland Trail Museum Reopening 3-3-2022 Texas Trail Tamers at CDRI 3-6-2022 through 3-12-2022 CDRI Cactus and Succulent Sale 3-14-2022 through 3-16 Old Spanish Trail Centennial+2 Celebration 3-26-2022 (Fort Davis) Southwest 100 Ultra Expeditions Eco Series- Mountains 3-26/27-22 Details There’s a lot going on all over West Texas with the coming of Spring, and the arrival of not only the season, but our first major ingress of tourists and visitors of the year. These are just a few local events we can look forward to this month. New…
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What’s Behind the Curtain
As of this weekend (Mid-February…) we have officially been open for business nine months. I’ll admit that it has not been without its ups and downs. There are days when business is so good that our optimism soars. And then there are those others that pass with not a single customer coming through the door. When that happens, the mood tends to shift into unwelcome channels of “what if?” I Wrote the first version of this post last summer after being open for only a couple of months. A lot has changed in the interim,…
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Merry Christmas To ALL
And an Amazing Holiday Weekend As Well We are here today, December 23rd all day and until 2:00pm tomorrow, Christmas Eve for your last minute shopping. Stop by and visit. Everything in the store is 20% Off today and tomorrow. We hope you all have a splendid, happy, healthy and abundant holiday. We will be closed both Saturday and Sunday in observance of Christmas. We look forward to seeing you next week.
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Counting Down to Christmas
We’re super excited and well stocked for the Holiday Season. To help with the Celebration we’re offering a different store discount every day leading up to Christmas. It’s our version of the Advent Calendar, with a new sale for each day. What a lot of fun. The store is decked out for Christmas. We’ve got heaps of ornaments and decorations both gently used and new, lots of them vintage treasures. We have gift wrap, cards and holiday themed party ware. And, our regular stock of gifts and eclectically inclined home goods. From graphic tees to…
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Ghosts, Goblins and Halloween Haunts
I can’t believe we’re 3/4s of the way through October already. Is everyone ready for Halloween? If not, we’ve got some unique and awesome decorations and party-ware in stock for the holiday. Still a few cute items if you’re putting together a costume also. We’re open every day but Wednesday. Stop by and say Hey! https://www.overtherainbowtx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OvertheRainBat.mp4 Wear a Costume & Save We’ve been super busy at the shop, adding all sorts of new items, vintage and new, and getting ready for the holidays— from Halloween through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. It seems that once…
