If you were traveling anywhere between Llano and Menard last week, you may have seen the unusual sight of a young lady running down the highway, pushing a large 3-wheeled baby stroller. While that's not a strange thing to see in town, she was running down the shoulder of the highway past the Castell turnoff, down through the middle of Art, on into Mason, then out through Grit, Hext and west to Menard.
Her name is Ari Ramos, and she had called me from over at Llano on Monday to introduce her ...
Golden Pumpkin Dinner Rolls
courtesy: King Arthur Flour
These slightly sweet, light-gold rolls will look good in your bread basket, and they are delicious! Try them during the Holidays or any other time that you’d like to have a tasty change of pace.
Ingredients for dough:
2 ¼ teaspoons yeast
¼ cup brown sugar
½ cup lukewarm milk
4 tablespoons softened butter
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
2 large eggs
¾ cup pumpkin puree
4 cups King Arthur (or si ...
Don’t forget tomorrow night is our Second Annual Christmas Sing-along with Fletcher Clark! We’ll have old favorites such as The First Noel, The Christmas Song, It Came Upon a midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Feliz Navidad, and more! Even if you don’t sing, you can listen and get in the holiday spirit!
Marksmanship & salesmanship
I was minding my own business, walking along the aisle at a gun show in Little Rock, when a young man at a booth made the silliest statement I’ve heard in a long time. He looked me right in the eye, my good eye, and he said, “I can make you the perfect marksman.”
Well.
Room for One More?...
‘Tis a puzzlement. Can anyone on the planet engage us to the degree that a 20th century icon did?
More specifically, can anyone “grab” us visually the way he did--that prolific author, painter and illustrator who reached Americans’ innermost cockles with a paint brush and canvas?
That icon re-defined sentimentality with engaging covers on The Saturday Evening Post 321 times during the publication’s 66 years of weekly magazines.
Since we are in the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season, I am going to try to describe what Christmas was like and how we celebrated the Christmas Season here in the Hill Country during the later days of 1929 thru 1940, during the Great Depression. At the time, I thought that our families were sort of at the low end of the totem pole as for as wealth was concerned but as I got older, I discovered that about 95% of the area population suffered the same hard times.
Thanksgiving and Christmas wa ...
Christmas is less than two weeks away. My decorations are up. I am ready in spirit. Our family is excited to welcome a new member this week when John and my first great grandchild is due. It will be a really special celebration.
Shoe boxes for Mexico are due at the Art United Methodist Church next Sunday, December 16.
December 12.
Just another day.
But also somebody’s birthday.
Gustave Flaubert.
Edvard Munch.
Edward G. Robinson.
Frank Sinatra.
Bob Barker.
Remember him?
(The Price Is Right!)
Connie Francis.
(Where the Boys Are…)
Dionne Warwick.
Cathy Rigby.
Cathy who?
It’s also the date many have died.
Douglas Fairbanks.
Winston Churchill’s wife, Clementine.
A formidable person in her own right.
Joseph Heller.
Ike Turner.
(Rollin,’ rollin’ down the river ...
And, of Course, It's Refugio Again!
For the last decade, the Mason playoff schedules have always had two teams that Puncher fans would look for on the horizon - Shiner and Refugio. We were aware that, at some time or another, to advance in the playoffs, we were going to have to play one or both of those tough teams.
In 2018, the brackets threw Shiner and Refugio into the Regional playoff, and the Bobcats defeated the Comanches 56-41.
This is for the little girl who was waiting for the Easter egg hunt to start in Mason, Texas, last spring.
I was sitting on the steps of the courthouse, expecting my granddaughters. It was a lovely day, with lots of colorful eggs scattered on the grounds.
The little girl was with a group of adults and other kids, family I supposed.
