Mountain City Montage
by PAULINE TOM
Quaresamale. Do you know the word? It’s out of this world Italian almond biscotti, and it’s sold just down FM 2770 before CR 150 at Villarina’s Fine Foods. Their quaresamale is imported from Joe’s Sicilian Bakery in Oceanside, New York. What an amazing little shop, with food imported from New York Italians. We stopped in for frozen vegetable lasagna last week, and could resist neither the quaresamale nor the frozen bagels, made the old Yiddish way. Villarina’s imported-from-New York Italian food has become a family tradition for birthdays, with kinfolk wowed that we purchase better-than-restaurant Italian just a couple miles from Mountain City.
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The new temporary offices for Precinct 2 with a 2770 address will open Monday, June 4. Commissioner Mark Jones, JP Beth Smith, and the tax office will permanently shut down in downtown Kyle at noon on Wednesday, May 30. They should move from the temporary buildings (accessed from Crystal Hills Drive) to the new building in about eight months.
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Judge Smith receives frequent notifications of rattlesnake sightings. RonTom spotted a small rattlesnake just off our back deck last week. KissMe walked within two feet. The snake remained coiled and still (and camouflaged on dirt with scattered leaves), even as Ron quickly whacked it with a shovel. Then, in two, it moved. (Circumstances did not allow a phone call to Rick Thomas for rescue, 393-1986.) Ron secured the rattler’s head in a prescription bottle for safe disposal.
A few hours later, BoD pulled his head out of his leashed collar upon sight of a doe in our side yard as he set off on a walk with Ron and KissMe. Away scampered a fawn. Gone are BoD’s days of giving chase. Gone are not my fears of a dog encountering a doe near a hidden fawn. KissMe carries a long scar on his side from a hoof’s blow last May. And, a few years back (also in May), I witnessed a doe whacking our almost blind Starr. The sharp hooves of a white-tailed deer are weapons for fighting. (A National Park Service bulletin says a blow can kill a coyote.)
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Gone is not my need for tidbits. Please send to [email protected] or phone 268-5678. Don’t forget the Mountain City garage sale on Saturday. Thanks! Love to you, Pauline.
