Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins
courtesy: Jiffy Mix
In my effort to get as many folks as possible to do some baking, I've been researching lots of recipes to see if there is a really quick and easy way for busy cooks to put some home-made goodies on the table. The Jiffy Mix company has been around a long time, and they make a lot more mixes than just Corn Bread Muffin Mix!
Summer Reading will begin next week on Monday, June 3! Read to Swim runs Mondays through Thursdays from 1:00-2:00 P.M. The program is for children who will be in Grades K-5 next school year. Every time children come in and read for thirty minutes, they’ll get a free pass to swim or to get free ice cream at Dairy Queen, and their names will go in the box for the drawings for a Kids’ Edition Kindle and four gift cards from Walmart for $100, $75, $50, and $25.
The Ban Wagon
Banning things is not a new concept. Back in the late 19th century, the Boston city council started banning any book, play, or song they thought was suggestive or risqué. And to a city council made up entirely of Puritans and Irish Catholics, pretty much everything was suggestive or risqué.
On Never Saying Never…
Surely it was a slow news day on both coasts recently.
In Rhode Island, they unrolled fireman-grade water hoses to wash egg from the faces of school board members, and in California, a small, “highest-scale” coffee spot sold out of a new magical coffee brew despite its introductory price of $75 PER CUP.
Left-coast citizens who invite friends to join them for cups of joe--with addition of taxes and tips--risk seeing a couple of $100 bills go up in smoke, and ...
This is the week that signals summer. School is out. June is officially here. Hopefully your will have a wonderful summer.
Next Sunday, June 2, there will be a ceremony at 2 at the Art West Cemetery where the Daughters of the Republic of Texas will place a marker on the grave of Ernst Jordan, a Republic of Texas pioneer.
Class Meetings continue at the Art United Methodist Church.
A tiny egg.
Sign of Spring.
Life.
Hope springing eternal.
Newborn birds.
In the nest.
Out of the nest.
Some in their eggs.
Some wailing for worms.
Like those at the Odeon Theatre.
And some who don’t make it.
A tiny broken egg.
Bird unformed.
Too soon.
No hope.
No wings.
No flight.
No feathers.
And so, Spring passes it by.
No second chances.
None for the baby bird, either.
Fallen from the bough.
Perfect beak.
Bulging eyes.
Feathered wings.
No ...
Congratulations, Class of 2019!
This week's paper also contains the special Graduation Supplement honoring the Seniors of 2019. We've got portraits of 58 seniors, and we have the bios for 57 of them. All in all, about average for what we're able to pull together in the last few weeks of school, and we're proud of the way it looks!
The cover photo of the senior class was taken just upstream of White's Crossing on property that was donated to Mason I.S.D.
Small towns all across the nation have suffered in recent decades from two overwhelming problems: growth too rapid to control, or its opposite, decline. Some communities managed to fall prey to both these problems at the same time. The towns that grew too fast were often overcome by the deterioration of their traditional downtown shopping areas at the expense of newer and more modern shopping malls and strip developments being built out along their highways.
Buttermilk Breads
(a 2-fer!)
I don’t want anyone out there rushing to the conclusion that I sit around the house and drink buttermilk by the gallon. Buttermilk and I don’t get along too well as a drink; it tastes nasty and the condition it leaves the glass in is just disgusting. However, it works beautifully when added to recipes.
Be sure to pause for a few moments next Monday, Memorial Day, to remember the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep us free and safe. We have a great selection of movies and books about past wars, but be sure to come in by Friday--the library will be closed on Monday.
DVDs:
Miss Bala
Fighting with my Family
Sgt.
