The recent rains have provided many blessings here in Mason and few of the significant challenges some of our neighbors in West Texas and around the country have had. This weekend in Mason was fun with a good football game on Friday night and great activities all around the Square on Saturday.
A Road Less Traveled….
He’s far more than a “once was,” but, even with an odometer he disconnected several years ago, he’s still well short of being a “has been.”
At age 78, Ray Hildebrand still is a Christian entertainer, most remembered for writing and singing Billboard magazine’s number one musical hit for February, 1963.
The Muddy Spartan
Poor intelligence caused Custer to lose the battle of the Little Big Horn. Poor intelligence caused Napoleon to lose the battle of Waterloo. Poor intelligence caused me to believe the Spartan Sprint obstacle course race in Pulaski, Tennessee would be 3.1 miles. At the starting line I found out the race was in fact 4.3 miles long, and contained 23 obstacles.
As most of you know, the library has a digital counterpart for downloading free ebooks, audiobooks, and emagazines. The easiest way to get started is to go to www.masontexaslibrary.com, log into your account, and click on the Overdrive icon. You will be asked to select your library and log in again (your card number is your user name and your seven-digit phone number is your password).
“Boss” Lion Marty Bentson gaveled to order the weekly meeting of the Mason Lions Club on September 25.
Shannon Worrell gave the program, about the forthcoming Fort Mason Cook-off and Wild West Extravaganza at the Fort Mason Park on Saturday, October 13. The Mason County Live Stock Show & Expo, LLC.
Our Memories Make Us Who We Are!
When new people move to Mason, it can be a bit intimidating to realize just how interconnected our residents are. Putting aside the familial connections so many of us share, we also have something that ties us together across generations and differences - our memories.
I can talk to a group of Sunday school kids, or to hunters at camp, and our common recollections can bind us together.
Leadership
The city commissioners’ vote approving the state’s rollback tax rate was an important decision to provide the city with $20,000 additional annual revenue. It’s not much, but $20,000 adds up to 1/5 the cost of the new million-dollar landfill over 10 years. No one wants to raise taxes or see rates go up, but Mayor Hinkley, Commissioners Beam, and Enrique are correct in that a new city-owned landfill is critical for Mason’s future.
To quote or not to quote.
“To err is human;
To forgive, divine.”
[Alexander Pope, poet]
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
[John Keats, poet]
“There is no remedy for love
But to love more.”
[Henry David Thoreau]
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
[Abraham Lincoln]
“Some cause happiness wherever they go;
Some whenever they go.”
[Oscar Wilde]
“If you do not change direction,
You may end up where you a ...
Welcome to Fall. This weather is so crazy. The rain has been wonderful. We are so grateful to have had slow rain with no flooding. Our neighbors in Sonora and the Austin area were not so lucky. I was out in the country this week and the wildflowers were blooming like it was spring.
Carnival Rides and Oreos….
It is likely true of all old-timers recalling pre-school memories. At times, weren’t we all scared of our own shadows?
As a five-year-old, holding tightly onto my parents’ hands, I took on the terrors of the midway when a carnival came to town. It was frightening enough to simply jostle through the crowds, and fears heightened as that first ride loomed.
It was unnerving, sitting atop the carousel hobby horse, even though my steed’s only movement—upwa ...
