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The Mason High School varsity football team returned to live action on Friday, Aug. 13 when the Punchers traveled for their first preseason scrimmage against Llano High School at Jacket Stadium.
It was a great time had under the Friday night lights as many members from the Mason community made the drive east on State Highway 29 to watch the Punchers prepare for the upcoming 2021 season.
Under third-year head coach Michael McLeod and his staff, the Punchers got to show off their physical W ...
God called Ronald Roy Binion home on August 10, 2021, at the age of 88. Ron was born June 5, 1933 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Murry Binion and Jessie Ivison. The family moved to Sayre, Oklahoma a few years later. He attended the Sayre schools and graduated in May 1952.
Weasie Lange joined her husband in eternity on August 8, 2021. She was born on November 27, 1928 on the Campbell Ranch in Mason County to Charlie Capps and Marie Deans Capps. She was raised in Voca, Texas by her grandparents, Charlie and Lula Deans. Weasie attended Mason High School.
It is that time of the year. Summer vacation has come to an end. Students and teachers are returning to the classroom. Parents are again reminded how quickly their children grow up. Pre-K students begin to learn a routine that will be a large part of their lives for the next several years and college students begin the recognize that the rhythm of school and break will soon come to an end.
I spent last week far from Mason County, on a remote bay along the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Espíritu Santo Bay is a part of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, named for a Mayan phrase that means “where the sky is born.” Every day I marveled as the spectacular skies reflected off the crystal-clear waters of the bay, where it indeed looked like the skies were born from tropical waters.
Dr. Kent Rylander, retired Texas Tech Professor, author of the book, “The Behavior of Texas Birds”, and a friend of mine, tells a fascinating story about a classic experiment in animal behavior. The researchers removed an egg from under a sitting goose and placed it next to the nest. The goose got up, extended her neck so that she could reach over the egg with her bill, and then pulled her neck back, pulling the egg back toward the nest.
Tomorrow August 19th in the Stribling Room, Fletcher Clark will perform “The Runaway Scrape” for adults at 6:00. In narrative, song, and characterization, Fletcher Clark recounts this historical flight before the advancing forces of Santa Anna. The Runaway Scrape ends with the Battle of San Jacinto and the emergence of the Republic of Texas.
This neat little recipe will give you some bread in just 10 minutes or so! No oven; no yeast; no kneading, and just 3 ingredients. And it's very flexible as far as those 3 ingredients go. You need to try this one, for sure.
Ingredients:
2 cups self rising flour
1 cup buttermilk (or any other milk you may have on hand)
¼ cup of vegetable oil (or butter, or shortening or lard)
Process:
Place a large cast iron (if you have one with a tight fitting lid) on LOW heat
Stir everything ...
Two teachers were talking. One asked the other, “What do you think are the three best things about teaching?”
“Oh that's easy,” was the reply, “June, July and August!”
August is about over. School is about to begin again. Teachers across the land are psyching themselves up to head back into the blackboard jungle.
This is an especially tough transition if the teacher is coming off a good vacation.
It’s mid-August and storms and rain have finally arrived. The precipitation contains an abundant amount of the atmosphere nutrient nitrogen, which brings a revival of all things growing. It has a little sodium which makes it feel "soft." But to a gardener the power of rainwater is magic! At Dave’s Garden on-line he has a good article about the "magical properties of rainwater."
The date of publication is my birthday. I don’t get too excited over birthdays anymore. They do seem to come faster. I didn’t have many parties when I was a kid. School was always starting the same week or had just started and birthdays were not as important as school.
What is the IABS?
Texas law requires all brokers and sales agents to provide written notice regarding information about brokerage services at the first substantive communication with prospective buyers, tenants, sellers, and landlords concerning specific real property. The Information About Brokerage Services form (or the IABS) is the required method to provide that information to those parties.
As a consumer you want to know who is representing you.
‘Me and RJ and the kids was on a campout in the mountains, and we had us one of them u-drive-‘em army jeep cars which we rented from a fella by the name of Kubozke for thirty bucks a day, buy your gas along the way, take a rabbit’s foot and leave a pint of blood for a dee-posit.’
C.W.
On August 10, the Mason Lions Club met at Nachos for their weekly meeting. Anyone interested in joining the Mason Lions Club, and serving the Mason community, need only ask any Mason Lion.
Lion Frank Bartlett introduced David Maxwell as his guest, and Lion Peter Aguilar introduced Sam Cox as his guest.
