They tried ever so hard to make major league baseball’s opening day seem as normal as possible, for the radio listener or TV viewer anyway.
Globe Life Field in Arlington--the $1.2 billion enclosed structure barely completed for the scheduled home opener in March--languished for almost four months. When it finally opened, fans were denied admission.
The new landfill is certainly beginning to take shape, and with the digging complete for the first cell this past week the liner will be laid starting this week and the other parts of the overall project will begin to take shape. It is anticipated that the entire landfill project will be completed by sometime in October and after inspection by TCEQ we will be ready to start accepting trash there in November.
August came in with a heat wave. On Friday, John and I were coming home from San Antonio. In Fredericksburg we were in a wonderful shower. But, the closer we came to Mason, the less it looked like rain. It will rain again, when it is our turn.
Activities at the Art United Methodist Church are limited.
Why Being a Clock Watcher is Okay!
I grew up in a farm family. The clock, and even the calendar, meant less to us while we went about our work since we based our routines upon the sunrise and sunset, as well as the changing of the seasons. The clock only came into play as we relied upon timed irrigation cycles, as we worked in our school schedules, and as we became teenagers and tried to coordinate our social lives with those of our friends living in town.
Then, for years, I worked in off ...
Back to School
There are too many unknowns to make an informed decision about sending our children back to school at this time. We can NOT send our children back to school until there is a safe, reliable vaccine. We don’t know when that very important piece of the puzzle will happen.
We have had a long week of very hot weather. We need rain. My prayer is that this was our hot summer and the rest will be much milder, and of course, wetter.
The Art United Methodist Church continues with Sunday morning worship at 11. The sermon is on You Tube also for those that don’t feel comfortable getting out.
Improvement on Silence…
My late father, T. J. Newbury, was a grand story teller. Friends and neighbors in Early, TX, gave him high marks for joke-telling, and so do I.
Usually, hearty “ho-ho’s” erupted when the punch line was unleashed, but on the rare occasions when silence hung heavy and listeners looked blankly as if ghosts had been seen, he had a back-up plan.
At such times, he’d laugh at himself, contending that if he didn’t think the story to be worthy of eliciting con ...
Our final virtual performance will be today, July 22, at 2:00 PM. Dinosaur George will answer the question “What is a Dinosaur?” This is a zoom event, not a video, so look for the login information for zoom on our Facebook page (@masontexaslibrary). If you haven’t had the chance yet, it is not too late to sign your kids up for “Read for a Treat.” Kids in grades K-5 can still earn free Dairy Queen ice cream, courtesy of Mason Bank.
New to the Library:
DVDs:
Dragonheart: 5 Movie ...
Easiest Fudge Recipe EVER!
courtesy: Yummly
This began life as a recipe that I stumbled across on the internet while looking for something else. It sounded quick and easy which is just what I’m always looking for to use in the Practical Baker column. I made it in the crock pot a couple of times, just as directed, and while the fudge turned out well, the hassle associated with cleaning the crock pot afterwards was more than I cared to deal with.
A Hairy Tale
“Ring-tums !”
That was friend Tex Luther’s reaction on seeing me walk into his living room to pick him up for our weekly luncheon date. With a groaning sigh I reluctantly turned around. Placing a gnarly knuckle on my neck, Tex, with a gleeful smile, briskly pushed it up against the grain of the freshly shorn locks.
Watching all this with a quizzical look on her face, Tex’s wife Katie asked, “What childish game are you two old coots playing now?”
As we both beg ...
