We have big news regarding our ebook provider Overdrive and Libby. The library will be switching to Biblioteca on December 13. We will be more than happy to guide all of our patrons through this change. In addition to being a lower cost for the library, Biblioteca offers thousands more ebooks and e-audiobooks through the Texas Cloud Library.
These are great cookies, nice and soft, and a bit gooey. You and your family or friends will not be able to eat more than 10-12 of these at a sitting, so you may wish to make more than one batch!
Ingredients:
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, plus one tablespoon
2 ¼ cups powdered sugar, plus two tablespoons
1 ¼ cups vegetable shortening, plus two tablespoons
2 eggs
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Granulated sugar for rolling
Process: ...
“What are you so excited about?”
“Boredom!”
“I'm sorry. I didn't understand you.”
“Boredom. I'm excited about boredom!”
My conversations with friend Tex Luther often bordered on the strange, but this was a little weird even for him.
“Tex,” I said, “please explain what you're talking about.”
“It's very simple,” he replied. “I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about what's wrong with the church.
With all the celebrities and rich people going to space lately, you might be interested to know that interstellar travel is not just for the wealthy. You, too, can blast off to the stars, and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg and a kidney and a spleen.
On November 2, the Board of Directors of the Mason Lions Club met, followed by the regular weekly club meeting at Nacho’s.
The Board discussed the sale of the Boy Scout Hut and the six acres around it, deciding to announce the intent to sell to the members of the club and make a final decision at their meeting in December.
Lion Frank Bartlett announced that the club made $1,600 from the hamburger sale.
Seed saving is a practice as old as humankind. George Washington supposedly thought it was "disreputable" for farmers to buy seeds every year. If you want to save seeds from one year to the next, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties (not hybrids) and know if a plant is self-pollinated or wind or insect-pollinated.
This past week was Halloween, which is symbolized by all kinds of things that are supposed to be scary or spooky. This often includes bats, although how these lovable, cute, beneficial, flying wonders were ever considered scary is beyond my comprehension.
Mason County is home to about ten species of bats.
Recently, I came across a booklet, or manual, produced by the Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District in Kendall County that was published a few years ago and I was struck by the title, “Water: Yours, Mine and Ours,” because it conveys the idea that there is only one water and it belongs to all of us.
One of the main ideas expressed in this booklet is that we need to establish a new “water culture”, one in which everyone considers water the precious resource that it is and acts ...
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Friends of the Library Book and Bake Sale! And thank you to our Friends of the Library group for hosting the fundraiser for the library! We also had a great turnout for our Trick-or-Treat at the Library event. The Mason Study Club will have their Chili Off the Square on November 12, so pre-order your chili meal and help raise even more money for the library.
As those of you who regularly read this column know, 95% of the recipes I share with you are recipes that I’ve collected (borrowed/stolen?) over the years from friends, relatives, cookbooks and the internet. I always try to give credit to the person or organization that supplied me with the recipe.
Now this particular recipe is a Practical Baker Original.
