With a few scattered rainstorms and the heat of the summer, August has arrived. There are a few plants you can plant now, but September is the month you will be seriously planning for.
Here are a few items that can be planted now: Snap and Lima beans, corn (through mid-August), cucumber, eggplant transplants, warm-season greens, pepper transplants, Irish potato (mid-month), Winter squash, and turnip (end of the month).
Check your Vegetable Garden Planting Guide for September planting.
As I write this on Sunday evening, we are in the middle of a rain shower. It has thundered and rumbled all afternoon but this is the first shower. I understand they are scattered. We appreciate any rain we get.
This morning as I watered my flowers, I noticed the cement planters by my back door were full of beautiful flowers.
1. Tax benefits. The U.S. Tax Code lets you deduct the interest you pay on your mortgage, your property taxes, and some of the costs involved in buying a home.
2. Appreciation. Historically, real estate has had a long-term, stable growth in value. Economists at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the National Association of Realtors® forecast median prices will rise between 3 to 8% in 2021.
The first time I heard the term ‘via ferrata,’ I figured it was another one of those silly, foreign, off-brand religious things, like zen, or yoga. The kind of thing snooty people refer to in conversation while they’re ordering their grande, iced, sugar-free, low-fat, vanilla, soymilk latte espresso with a caramel drizzle.
On July 27 the Mason Lions Club met at Nachos for their weekly meeting. Any ladies or gentlemen who are interested in joining the Mason Lions Club and serving the Mason community need only ask any Mason Lion!
The Lions welcomed Lion Will McCann's guests Amanda and Mike Reynolds and Dave Lampman.
Fred Reyna of Llano was our guest speaker.
In 1875, an enormous plague of locusts moved across the Great Plains of North America, from Canada to Texas, eating everything in its path. (Locusts are a special form of swarming, migratory grasshoppers that are stimulated to change their color and behavior by crowded conditions.) The 1875 swarm consisted of the Rocky Mountain Locust, Melanoplus spretus.
Most of this column was written nine years ago to describe the changes that had occurred in the vegetation inside our high fence the previous 11 years. Obviously, we made numerous changes by planting things and cutting back other things, but the discussion below pertains only to the natural changes as some things grow, some things die and some things propagate new plants with no involvement by us.
Our Retro Video Game Night was so fun that we will host it again on August 11! We will have two sessions: from 1:00 to 3:00 and from 6:00 to 8:00. Join us for some old school video games! Children under the age of twelve should be accompanied by an adult for this event.
Mostaccioli, known in Italy as "Penne Lisce," or pasta in the form of a short tube, are a specialty of the Campania Region in Southern Italy, which includes the cities of Naples, Capri, and Sorrento. Penne are tube-shaped with angled ends cut to resemble a quill or pen point. Unlike Penne pasta, which are ridged, Mostaccioli are smooth in texture.
This week I am combining two of my favorite foods, pasta, and pizza.
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, cook books and the internet. I always try to give credit to the person or organization that supplied me with the recipe.
