We have had wonderful rains. Prayers are answered. My yard is so wet that I sink when I walk in the grass. This is an unusual event. We are so thankful for all the rain. I have emptied 3.25 inches since it started raining. It usually is not accurate as it is partially under a giant oak tree.
We welcome Fall on September 22.
We were almost half way through September, and the lack of summer rains were beginning to take a real toll on our Mason County landscape. Pastures were crisp and brown, trees were going into dormancy, dropping leaves and even limbs as they struggled to make it through the season. The grasshoppers that had plagued us early in the summer hatched out a new crop and ravenously nibbled away even the tiniest hints of new growth.
Silence is blacktop
Since the resurfacing of East Rainey St, the quiet is amazing! The jolting bump, rattle, squeak and clatter of passing trucks with livestock trailers is gone. Instead vehicles quietly hum as they go by, almost unnoticed. Thank you tax payers and the City of Mason Street Department!
Many thank to David Hillis for his informative article on Horny Toads (aka Horned Lizards). And how important it is to NOT kill the red ants (aka Harvester ants)!
I was one of the fortunate kids to grow up with horny toads and remember holding one in the palm of my hand and petting it while it closed its eyes (I believed it was happy but perhaps it was simply indulging a little girl).
Other horned lizard aficionados might be interested to know there is a Horned Lizard Conservation Society ...
Office workers in New York and Washington going about their normal routines. Suddenly out of the blue, hijacked planes smash into their buildings. In a split second, thousands of people alive one moment are dead the next.
Shoppers leisurely walking the streets. Residents relaxing in their seafront apartments. Suddenly a Beirut port storage facility erupts with a monster blast.
Few emotional swings reach from the highest high to lowest low in a period of 60 hours. My wife Brenda and I celebrated our 54th wedding anniversary on August 12. Three days later, our oldest daughter, Julie Choate, succumbed to a pulmonary embolism.
In a two-hour period, efforts to revive her failed; her airlift to a Fort Worth hospital was for naught.
She was 50, exuberant, optimistic, hard-working and a champion of the underdog, spending most waking hours as principal at McCall Element ...
Labor Day without a massive cookout for family and friends or a trip to the lake was not the usual celebration. However, as retirees, we don’t celebrate a day not to work like we used to. Ours was a quiet day. We like quiet days.
Class meetings continue on Wednesday evenings with soup at 6 and the meeting begins at 6:30.
Last week, I had a conversation with Scott's son, William, about the pluses and minuses about moving to Mason to attend school. He's been enrolled at Austin High School; but, they were only doing virtual attendance and that wasn't something Will found satisfying.
Our talk was bluntly honest and I told him the great things about living in a small town; but, also shared some of the negative things that go along with that life.
I would like to respond to the letters in last week’s mcn by Cindy Morris & Dennis Evans. I know Cindy to be a kind & caring person but I don’t consider Carolyn Karner’s letter or mine in support of hers as coming from the looney bin as she alleges.
Mr. Gerald Gamel,
You have told me multiple times that you do not allow the Letter to the Editor forum to be used for personal attacks.
The Remember letter in last week's MCN singled out recent contributors for ridicule. The author also called for those contributors to be condemned by the local right and Republicans in Mason for expressing their opinions.
This is a clear attack on Constitutionally protected free speech and freedom of the press.
The left uses this ridicule, attack and ...
