Apr 30 2012
I have arrived!…. but, first I ate some Junk Berry Pie from Royers Round Top Café. Waking up before the sun, my friend and I headed from Mason to Round Top, Texas for a special Private Bloggers Luncheon at Royers Round Top Café. The calendar reflected that this was the biannual Antiques Week show in …
Apr 09 2012
Round -em up…it’s time for the 3rd Annual Art in Art weekend. It’s a two day event when Plein Air Artists (which is a fancy word for painting outside) come to the area to paint or bring their cameras to capture our historical buildings and beautiful landscape. The two day weekend is April 13-14th. On …
Mar 29 2012
Life looping happens when we least expect it. This story begins a few years ago when I attended one of my high school reunions. Interesting, I found myself meeting and visiting with people who I did not know in high school. Our graduation class was quite large and therefore our friends were those in the …
Mar 19 2012
We have had rain these past couple of months and the grass, weeds, and flowers are growing…growing, growing. If you live in this county, you got quite use to seeing various shades of the color BROWN during the past dry months. Now…there is the color GREEN everywhere! To show the growth of the local vegetation and …
Mar 12 2012
Definition: A monitor watches over an area, person or special day. It was 150 years ago this past week that in our American History we remember The Battle of Hampton Roads….the Clash of the Ironclads. It was the sea battle during the Civil War between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. In the past week, …
Feb 28 2012
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Popping the Question is exactly what I did to Gerry Gamel, the editor of our local newspaper, The Mason County News. Four years ago on February 29, 2008, it was mid afternoon and I realized that it was Sadie Hawkins Day, Leap Year, the one day that occurs every 1,461 days when I, a female …
Feb 19 2012
They’re coming! It’s going to be a great year! I can already see them…they are growing everywhere. They are thick and tall in everyone’s yard and fields. WOW…it’s going to be a great year! They’re coming! They’re coming! Soon, the landscape will be filled with BLUEBONNETS and other wild flowers. Two years ago as far as …
Feb 12 2012
Fear and Love are two of the most basic and powerful human emotions. They can inspire such extremes of behavior as killing one another or dying for one another. It is widely agreed that love is fundamentally important, isn’t it remarkable how many organizations seem dedicated to promoting its opposite: fear. Ten years plus, …
Feb 06 2012
They lost 10% of their body weight in 3 minutes! Now that I have your attention and Biggest Loser fans are now reading my blog, I’m talking about the Angora goats in Mason County. Every six months, the first weekend in August (right before breeding) and in February (right before kidding) the goats are taken …
Jan 30 2012
The Odeon in Mason Texas is the oldest small theater in West Texas. Every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings you can see a recent Hollywood movie for just $4.00. In addition to movies, The Odeon Preservation Society, also brings in well known musicians, dancers, artistic lectures and other cultural events which are of interest …