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Bennett Miller, a great friend to the Cedars neighborhood and Dallas Heritage Village died on May 18 at the age of 84. Bennett’s published obituary headline referred to him as a “Developer Who Pioneered City’s Loft Housing Trend.” This is accurate enough, but hardly does justice to his many accomplishments and the lasting impact he had on all who knew him. I attended his funeral on Monday, heard from the many different people who knew him in their own way and, as the service progressed, enjoyed seeing how the different roles that Bennett played all fit neatly into one package. As sometimes happens at “good” funerals, I realized that there was much about him I had not known, and I went away wishing that I had spent more time with him. I ..

(/images/postimages/sheep1.jpg) Winston and Starbuck make themselves at home. The flock at the DHV farmstead just doubled in size with the arrival of two new sheep. Our existing flock of two Rambouillet sheep, MayBelle and Marvella, couldn’t feel any safety in numbers without more friends. Sheep rarely make use of social networking opportunities, so the human staff searched the hinterlands, looking for compatible, people-oriented sheep interested in museum work. The successful candidates were raised on a bucolic farm in the town of Blue Ridge, in northern Collin County. Their mama is a Baby Doll Southdown, a diminutive breed of sheep. Daddy, however, was a standard, large Southdown, so the boys weigh in at 200 pounds. As Southdowns, they can trace their heritage ba ..