Mason County 4-H Shooting Sports competed in the State 4-H shooting competition at the Austin Rifle Club in Manor, TX on July 11-15, 2016. Six 4-H members competed. Results for the members were:
Graci Weber
5th place air pistol silhouettes metallic sights
2nd place air rifle silhouette
Millie Marquart
1st place Sporter air rifle
2nd place BB
3rd place air rifle silhouette
Marshall Marquart
1st place smallbore pistol silhouette any sight
5th running target
3rd place air pistol s ...
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When you're young, you learn lessons in civility and good manners. You are taught to open doors for ladies and to assist the elderly in crossing the street. You learn to say please, to always say thank you, and to not swear in public.
Those are the lessons we're taught in kindergarten and Sunday school.
Preserving the night skies of the Texas Hill Country
Bill Wren recalls how fascinated he was by the night sky when he was a child. “I remember many evenings lying in the grass looking up at the stars and wondering about the world beyond my immediate surroundings.” A veteran astronomer at the McDonald Observatory, Wren is concerned that children of future generations may not be able to experience the wonder of a brilliant starry sky because of light pollut ...
MASON, TEXAS- The Antique Pickers Back Roads Tour will be conducting a special event Thursday & Friday August 4th & 5th. The event will be held at the M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library from 9 a.m. TO 5 p.m. Admission is free and no appointment is needed.
During this event local area residents are invited to bring in their antiques, collectibles, old coins, gold jewelry, broken jewelry, sterling silver and more.
The drawing for the 2016 Puncher Dome football home games will be held Tuesday, August 23 @ 10:00 am. The drawing will be held at the MISD Admin office on the north side of the square (200 Fort McKavitt St).
In order to be entered into the drawing, a check for $240.00 needs to be delivered to the Admin.
Hot.
Caliente.
Chaud.
Heib Wetter.
Somehow hot is easier to handle when it’s supposed to be hot.
Like summer in Texas.
Or summer most places.
The Midwest.
The Deep South.
The deserts of the Southwest.
But some heat can be abnormal.
Like when it’s 90 degrees in the mountains.
You’re a mile high up in the sky.
Cozied up to the scorching sun.
No breeze.
And often, no air conditioning.
No relief.
Unless there’s a lake nearby.
People drop dead in San Francisco when it gets hot.
No fog.
No br ...
August snuck in. This summer is really going fast.
We had a family dinner Sunday to celebrate granddaughter Megan’s 13th birthday. Thanks to parents Scott and Crystal, we enjoyed a feast of wonderful food. Grands Amber and John returned Sunday from their summer visit with their dad and Megan had returned Wednesday from her summer visit with her mom.
This past month sure was a busy one! The 52nd Annual Mason County Round-Up brought many people to our area. We had visitors come from all over the state of Texas to visit. They came from Seguin, Burnet, Saherty, Fairfield, Hey, Lakeway, Corpus Christi, Kyle, Kerrville, Granger, Bastrop, West and Georgetown, just to name a few.
The weather continues to be hot and the skies are clear so that we have no expectation of rain in the near future. The City water department continues to also have some concerns about the ability of some of the well pumps to keep up with the high demand, and this past Sunday we had another problem with one of our primary wells.
I’ve been told, “You can’t fix stupid.” I believe it, however, I want to believe you can reason with stupid. Wrong! I just get more agitated! Really, there is nothing I can do to prove a point to one of these folks. They’ve just made up their minds to remain in the la la land of complete stupidity!
