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09/09/2026

Congratulations! Texas A&m as needed a new training ship for a very long time. This is a huge game changer for Texas A&M University at Galveston.

08/12/2026

Interesting celestial information.

08/12/2026

Excellent approach. I’ve been suggesting using seaweed for fertilizer for years. There must be something that we can use seaweed for that’s useful.

🇲🇽 Mexico is taking a new approach to one of the Caribbean’s biggest environmental challenges by investing billions of pesos in a large-scale effort to stop sargassum before it reaches its beaches.

The new strategy includes deploying 13 specialized vessels—including 11 sargassum collection ships, an ocean-going vessel, and an amphibious collector—along with 18 smaller boats, 16 kilometers (10 miles) of floating barriers, satellite monitoring, and permanent response teams.

Rather than waiting for the seaweed to wash ashore, the ships are designed to intercept and collect it at sea, helping protect popular destinations such as Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Puerto Morelos, and Mahahual.

The project also aims to give the collected sargassum a second life by converting it into construction materials, biofuels, and other industrial products, turning an environmental problem into a valuable resource.

Officials hope the initiative will reduce the impact of record-breaking sargassum blooms while protecting the region’s beaches, marine ecosystems, and tourism industry. 🇲🇽🌊

08/07/2026

Very good advice from a teacher!

08/06/2026

Texas Gulf Seafood at Pier 7 in Galveston burned Wednesday evening on 8/5/26. The orange glow from the fire and smoke could be seen for miles. The seafood business is located across from UTMB and near the Galveston Yacht Marina.
Photo (c)2026 Robert Mihovil, Mihovil Photography, (409) 771-5668

08/05/2026

The Mother Church of Texas.

Long before Galveston became a booming port city, before the storms, before the skyline, there was a small wooden church built by immigrants who wanted nothing more than a place to worship, and what grew from it became the mother church of an entire state.

In 1841, a young priest named Jean-Marie Odin arrived on the island and found a handful of Catholic families with nowhere to gather. With help from local city founders, he raised enough to build a simple frame church the following year. It didn't stay simple for long. By 1845, Bishop Odin had shipped in half a million bricks all the way from Belgium, using them as ballast to keep the ships steady on the crossing, and used every one of them to build something permanent. The little wooden church was physically rolled out into the street to make way for it. When the new cathedral was finally dedicated in 1848, it served as the spiritual home for Catholics across nearly the entire state of Texas, at a time when no other diocese existed to share the load. Decades later, architect Nicholas Clayton raised its twin spires to eighty feet and topped the tower with a cast iron statue of Mary, her crown lit at night so sailors could find their way safely into the port below.

That cathedral has survived Civil War cannon fire aimed directly at it, the deadliest hurricane in American history in 1900, and Hurricane Ike over a century later, standing through every single one of them. In 1979, the Pope himself recognized it as a minor basilica, one of the highest honors a church can receive. Storms have come and storms have gone, and that same cathedral is still standing on that same ground, exactly where a handful of faithful immigrants first decided it belonged. ⛪

08/04/2026

Women made up 65% of the workforce during WWII.