A first aid kit doesn’t take up much space and can be a big help if somebody gets a minor injury. Cuts, scrapes, stings, and snake bites can typically be dealt with using a well-supplied first aid kit. (If you’re bitten by a venomous snake, head to the emergency room.)

Speaking of snakes, opening week of the hunting season will mark the first time in months that anybody has been walking around in most area fields, and snakes have gotten used to being the ones in charge. Keep a keen eye out, and just because you see a snake – even a venomous one – doesn’t mean you need to kill it. Most snakes will move on with a little encouragement, and they do a lot more good keeping rats out of the corn fields than you might think.

Accentuating the positive

There’s a lot of trouble in the world today – enough to make you cancel your cable television and try to hide from the news.

But there are also a lot of signs of hope, and those are what we need to focus on. Two of those signs crossed on Saturday morning at Lake Waco, as the fishing group Fish On Texas! met up with a group of kids from Mentor Waco to do some fishing at Woodway Park.