Mountain City Montage
by PAULINE TOM
Thank God! It rained! That’s the big neighborhood news. Everyone received a good drenching over the weekend. The weather for Fire and Ice the previous weekend could not have been more perfect. Mayor Rick Tarr won the Ice contest with cookies and cream. Crystal Smith Dixon (daughter of former mayor, Judge Beth Smith) won the Fire contest.
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Just three days later, neighbors gathered again on the lawn of Beth and Everett Smith for National Night Out – enjoying ice cream treats and conversation. City Council members did not take questions and comments about the new roads in that forum. Rather, they issued an invitation to the public comments portion of the next City Council meeting on Monday, October 17, at 7 p.m. in the new City Hall, the house at the front of the city.
October. Time for creepy crawly frightening things? Barbara Coldwell flipped over her pillow one morning to find a squashed scorpion. She knew not to reach for him barehanded, even though he appeared dead. In 30 years in Mountain City (on Pecan), this was her first scorpion.
RonTom stepped on one walking barefoot from one room to another at night. It gave him quite a wallop. We’ve seen five or six in recent weeks. Ron pill bottle-traps them and often saves them alive, without air, for months.
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Beth Smith sent word through her email distribution that she’s receiving many reports of rattlesnakes in our precinct. A friend told me of one on FM 2770 in front of the school that “stretched almost across two lanes.”
What’s coming up in Mountain City, besides the October 17 City Council meeting:
November 13-20: Food drive for Hays County Food Bank
November 26-December 4: Toy drive benefiting Hays County Brown Santa
What’s coming up in Montage? Send tidbits to [email protected] or (512) 517-5678 (text or voice).
