We will be closed tomorrow for the holiday, so be sure and come by today if you want something before Friday. Have a safe, happy, and patriotic Fourth of July!
DVDs:
Hotel Mumbai
Will & Grace: Season 2
Wonder Park
Run the Race
Garage Sale Mystery: Collection 3
Audiobooks:
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline (CD F SCO)
The River by Peter Heller (CD F HEL)
Fiction: (all quotes from publishers’ summaries)
Have You Seen Luis Velez?
Hard time
Several days before my wife and I were planning to leave for our Alaskan cruise, she sent me an article full of advice for people going on their first such trip. One of the items on the list was to buy a cheap watch and set it for ship time, which is usually different from local time wherever the ship happens to be, and certainly different from the time where you came from.
Not In My Back Yard…
So awash are we in acronyms these days, we may start tossing them asunder at any time. Such drastic action carries with it results akin to “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”
Acronyms are everywhere, and youngsters using them--probably throughout the world--are rendering many “tried and true” acronyms obsolete.
We of wrinkled skin, wobbly knees and raspy voices--though sorry to see such obsolescence imposed--won’t protest much.
Welcome to July. We have had a rather mild summer so far. Yes, there have been some really hot days. Nothing I couldn’t handle with air conditioning.
We celebrate Independence Day on July 4. Travel safely if you must travel. We plan to stay home.
The Daniel Jordan family gathered last weekend to celebrate Fred Jordan’s 80th birthday.
O Beautiful.
For spacious skies.
And freedom everywhere.
O say can you see
And the rockets’ red glare
Gave proof through the night.
That we were alright.
Fourth of July.
According to Wikipedia, “Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of
July, is a federal holiday in the United States.
It commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4,
1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Independence Day is commonly associa ...
The Earth Is Flat... The Moon Landing Was Fake... Vaccines Aren't Safe....
Many years ago, there were strange rumors and wives tales that trickled through our conversations. The subjects were often quite trivial; but, in our young lives, they were of substantial importance.
We all believed the rumor that Bubble Yum bubblegum was so soft and chewy because it was made from spider eggs.
We questioned if Paul McCartney was dead, because on the Abbey Road album, he was out of step with his b ...
Landfill
A Landfill is not like a Tuxedo
I’ve rented a tuxedo twice in my life...prom 1964 and when I got married. What I learned during my 73 years is it makes sense to rent a tux, but not a landfill. Shipping trash 160-mile round trip to rent space in Brownwood’s landfill every time trash is dumped is crazy.
Waste
Monday night’s Commissioners meeting was a grass roots example of democracy in action. It was so moving to see our community come together, in a positive way, over a mutual concern. It was apparent that the landfill decision currently under consideration brings out strong feelings. As well it should. The city forefathers were thinking about us, the future generations, when they made certain Mason would have a method in place to address the inevitability of trash.
It is understanda ...
Pepper Crunch Cornbread
courtesy: Genius Recipes
If you’d like to try a different twist on your cornbread, whip up a batch of this. It’s baked more like a biscuit or a scone and the same cold pockets of butter that make your biscuits and scones work, work their magic on this pan of cornbread.
Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
1 cup cornmeal, preferably coarse, but fine will work fine
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 ½ teaspoons salt
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The kids had great fun last week and yesterday with our special programs for Summer Reading. Entertainer Joe McDermott over 50 kids singing, dancing, and laughing, and they loved Repco Wildlife’s animals! We have one more special show coming next Tuesday, July 2—OSCAR MUNOZ will perform his MAGIC!! The show starts at 1:00 P.M.
