It is Sunday afternoon and the weatherman said scattered showers. We had thunder but no rain yet. Hopefully those that really need rain will be blessed soon.
My brother, Mike, would have been 80 years old on September 7. He was the family jokester. My favorite childhood picture of the two of us was me sitting in a washtub swimming while he squirted me with the garden hose.
Whether you’ve had a home inspection done before or this is your first time, there are a few basics buyers should know. Here are five common questions and answers to help clarify the process.
WHO PAYS FOR IT?
The buyer chooses the inspector, pays the inspector directly for the inspection, and the inspection report generated belongs to the buyer.
Some things you don’t forget. Some events make a lasting impression, etching themselves on our lives and changing the way we view the world from that point on. They cause us to alter our responses to future events and force us to reevaluate our values and mores, and sometimes they change our priorities.
On August 31, the Mason Lions Club met at Nacho’s for their weekly meeting.
Our guests included Connie Stockbridge, Todd Cox, a pending new Lion, General Don Daniels, and his son, Captain Bob Daniels.
Our guest speaker was Doug Moorehead of Broad Reach Power. Doug told us about the Bat Cave Energy Storage Project, that large mysterious site just south of the hill at Fort Mason.
Doug has a fascinating background.
The large and distinctive black and yellow spiders go by many different common names: Yellow Garden Spider, Zipper Spider, Zigzag Spider, Writing Spider, and Banana Spider are among the names often used. Biologists know the spider as Argiope aurantia, which translates as “Gilded Silver-face.” Their large size, bright coloration, and distinctive webs make them among our most obvious and well-known local spiders.
A German geologist, Ferdinand Roemer, visited the Hill Country from early 1846 until the spring of 1847. He chronicled his observations in detail in a book, later translated into English by Oswald Mueller, called “Roemer’s Texas”. Roemer was actually employed to study the area by a German company interested in developing some German settlements in the Hill Country.
Roemer described in detail the difficulty in traveling in Texas back then, which was just after Texas became a state.
Stop by the library this Friday to see our Puncher display. We have old photographs of Mason football teams as well as marching bands, cheerleaders, and pep squads. We also have some football programs on display in the foyer from the 1950s.
We will also have a special guest reader at Storytime this Friday!
This recipe started out as a buttermilk biscuit recipe. The biscuits turned out so well I thought I’d see if there were other variations out there to try and, sure enough, this recipe popped up.
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups self-rising flour
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup unsalted butter
1 cup buttermilk (and add more if the dough doesn’t quite come together)
Cinnamon-sugar (for the tops; mix ¾ cup of sugar with 2 tablespoons of cinnamon)
1 tablespoon melted butter (f ...
I have the urge to play with the names of Texas towns. Please indulge me.
As I look through the towns listed in THE TEXAS ALMANAC, I am struck by how appropriate it would be for people with certain occupations, hobbies, and the like to live in a particular town.
For example: Wouldn’t it be great to be a baker in Baker, a bishop in Bishop, or a shepherd in Shepherd?
These are obvious.
Let’s dig into cruciferous vegetables because they are your stronghold for fall and winter gardening.
Brassica oleracea, also classified as cruciferous vegetables, are part of the genus Brassicaceae. This is a very large family. Here are some of the names you may know: cabbage (green and red), Mustard, Bok Choy, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Turnips, Rutabaga, Radish, Cauliflower, Kale, Collard greens, Wasabi and Horseradish, Kohlrabi, Watercress, and Arugula.
