Mountain City Montage
by PAULINE TOM
Children wanting candy and treasure got egg-xactly what they wanted at the Mountain City Egg Hunt on Saturday morning. Too-many-eggs-to count remained in the section for babies under two years old after the little ones filled their baskets to capacity. Older kids scrambled and found more than plenty.
“Loving Mountain City” created and presented the Mountain City fun event. Amy Hilton heads the volunteer group. Helpers on Saturday morning included Barbara Coldwell, Tiffany Curnutt, Judge Beth Smith (earlier, she tied two wedding knots), Verlenne Monroe, Gary White and Alice Kessner. RonTom and I also helped.
Judge Smith donated the grand prizes.
Verlenne sold “Mountain City Cooks” cookbooks — again - at the egg hunt. (Seems selling a cookbook in 2011 is about like selling transistor radio batteries.) Verlenne and Gary fronted the money for the cookbooks. Loving Mountain City needs $800 more in $15 sales in order to repay the loan, before the first penny is made.
“The Mountain City Cooks cookbook. It starts conversations. It brightens kitchen countertops. It brings the character of Mountain City right into a home. It dices …”
Tiffany Curnutt unscrambled the mystery of how some knew about the mid-April Saturday morning recycling. Printed announcements made it to about half of the city’s front doors.
At the time of this writing, no future recycling dates appear on the city’s calendar at www.mountaincitytx.com. A single event appears in May: the monthly City Council meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 10.
James and Dianne Polk were among several proud grandparents with grown children and grandchildren at the egg hunt.
James tidbitted last week, “We just saw a brilliant, almost iridescent blue Indigo Bunting! Our first sighting of one. No Painted Buntings...yet! The other first sighting from last week was a Yellow-Throated Warbler. … How’s the Buffed-Bellied Baphoon or whatever it was with blue striped eggs?”
(Ash-throated Flycatcher with purple splotched eggs, it is! She’s egg-sitting.)
Diane Krecji chatted with me about the upcoming “Alice in Wienerland”-themed weenie dog races next weekend, April 30 and May 1.
The whole wienerful idea of dachshund races came to the Buda Lions Club years ago from Diane. Her granddog, Scarlett, raced in the wiener day races in Savannah, Georgia. Diane knew Buda would be a Buda-ful place for such a race. Our make-Mountain City-proud celebrity (often seen on news coverage of the event, with a prominent role in the “Lord of the Wiens” dachumentary) says she almost got laughed out of the room.
After the very first year, the race was a wiener. Now, with $30 entry fees and hundreds of participants (plus a $3 entry fee this year for “over 12”), the Buda Lions Club must laugh all the way to the bank. That’s a lot of eyeglasses and kids (with physical disabilities & children with diabetes) to summer camp.
Quite-gray BoD (now 12) and happy-go-lucky Kiss’Me’ race on Saturday morning. Their entry fees go as a donation to the Buda Lions Club and go a looooong way with RonTom’s year-round storytelling.
We plan to stop and drop them in the Oscar Meyer Wiener pedal car for a photo op. What a great feature for a Central Texas Dachshund Rescue booth.
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