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The Marfa Lady Horns’ basketball season came to a close Tuesday night in the Bi-District Round of the playoffs against Buena Vista High School. Marfa faced early adversity as Buena Vista’s full-court press disrupted the Lady Horns’ offense and forced several turnovers. The early pressure resulted in a quick 14–4 deficit. After a timeout by Coach Kevin Pippen, Marfa settled in and began breaking the press, but struggled to convert open scoring opportunities, heading into halftime trailing 38–8.

At Dallas Theological Seminary from 1972 until 1976, we had Chapel four times each week. So, if I attended Chapel every day it was held (and I loved our Chapel Services), I heard about 576 sermons in four years, not counting that my family and I also attended a local church for those four years.

The spring season of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s five scheduled rodeos closed the books on the first one, after competitors from the Lone Star Region competed in Fort Worth, February 2-4.

Dear Neil, I have a bed of cast-iron plants beneath a large live oak. We just bought our house two years ago. The bed looked fine last year, but now, after the cold, it looks very bad. Will the plants come back? Is the browning strictly because of the cold?

Alpine Avalanche.

INGREDIENTS Cooking spray or oil for the slow cooker 2 red bell peppers, seeded and sliced into strips ½ a small onion, sliced into strips 4 (8-ounce) boneless pork loin chops ½ cup of teriyaki sauce 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes ¼ cup of peanut butter, creamy is recommended ½ cup of chopped green onions ¼ cup of chopped, roasted peanuts 2 limes, cut into wedges DIRECTIONS Coat a slow cooker with cooking spray or oil. Place the bell pepper, onion strips, and pork chops in the slow cooker.

There’s almost nothing better than a good Thai peanut sauce. And dropping some juicy pork chops in it makes it just that much better.