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I thought it was hot here in Mason! However, I now know that there are hotter parts of this world and that’s in Florida. I was in a continuous sauna/steam bath for a week in Florida.

Realtor. Some pronounce it “realator.

Let it rain. Thank God for the rain we have gotten.

Courtland and I pulled into Lake City, Colorado in late afternoon and promptly encountered an argument. We had gone into a store to ask directions to Dan’s Fly Shop, and the woman who owned the store was evidently trying to get another woman to have her husband carry some boxes to the basement. The other woman didn’t want her husband going down the basement stairs, for some reason I never understood.

Raw apple cider vinegar has been touted as a health tonic for many years. Its use for health is documented back to the time of Hippocrates in 400 B. C.

THE IDLE AMERICAN A Round-Up of Reflections…

It’s a bird. . .

“This old dog won’t hunt” and similar phrases are blended to the cultural language of the rural south and without them our proud Texas dialect would be “as bland as red beans without a chunk of salt pork. ” The use of these localisms which perhaps astound many of the “cityfied” folk from away up yonder is, in fact, a pure delight to the oft referred to society of the “unwashed. ”

It is high peach time here in the Texas Hill Country, so I thought we might talk peaches this week. Did you know that peaches originated in China?

It seems sometimes that only a few things are changing and getting done around the City of Mason, but behind the scenes there is often a number of things happening. Just recently we have hired a couple of new employees to fill some vacancies, and now we are again working hard to keep up and get things accomplished. A week ago on Monday night, the City Commission met and several more issues are being addressed.