W ho turned out the lights?” Mayor Tifanny Curnutt sent a message with this caption to those on the city’s email distribution list last week. (Not on the distribution list?  With the city’s website features not functioning well, you may send an e-mail to mountaincitytx@gmail.com and let the city kno...

M ark the date for the next Council Meeting with a one hour special meeting on garbage /recycling pickup. It’s Wednesday, August 10, starting at 6 p.m. (Last week’s column had the wrong date. And, the city’s website showed the wrong date.)   •••   How in tarnation did a frog hop into KissMe’s kitche...

I t seemed a good idea to test a recipe for moth bait that popped in to me from a publisher. First, let me be straight with you. The recipe did not test out. The recipe tested out against other “moth bait” recipes on the internet. All I found were similar. Mix mashed banana, molasses, dark rum, brow...

C atch more flies with honey than vinegar?  An infestation of fruit flies in my kitchen sent me surfing for a solution on Father’s Day Eve. With everything on hand for a YouTube recipe, I had nothing to lose.  What a gift I would have for RonTom if it worked.  I poured an inch-and-a-half or so of ap...

By Pauline Tom V rooom. Vrooom. “Ladies and gentlemen, start. your. chainsaws.” This word came (via email) from Mayor Tiffany Curnutt on the evening of June 30. Why June 30? That’s the last day for “no pruning or wounding live oaks” period (with a few exceptions), according to TexasOakWilt.org’s pro...

E njoy the annual Independence Day Parade with Lawnmower Races. It’s 10 a.m. on July 4th, gathering near old City Hall. Watch facebook.com/lovingmountaincity for details. But, don’t do fireworks within Mountain City. This year, the city published word (on website, on Loving Mountain City’s facebook ...

By Pauline Tom Y ou cannot find M C Forester in Mountain City. Forester is connected to Mountain City through Mountain City Montage. An opportunity came my way to share M C’s delightful response to the April 27 column (“Old Lady Forester, roadrunners, rattlesnakes) when Editor Moses electronically t...

I ’m proud to live in Mountain City, a little city still somewhat out in the country, where neighborly Burna Erwin brought her umbrella to the street when RonTom, KissMe, and I got caught in a shower last week. Montage brings me some friends who do not live in Mountain City. One is M.C. Forister. Sh...

H ow many roadrunners do we have hanging out in Mountain City? Friday morning we stopped to watch one on Live Oak Drive at Ash. Ellis Craig walked out to get his newspaper saying, “He’s been hanging around for several days.” Saturday morning we saw a roadrunner running along Maple Drive. Saturday af...

D oes it seem the bluebonnets are surging in waves this year? In early March, friends posted fields of bluebonnets online. We  thought only two of our seeds germinated. Now, they’re popping up everywhere, including Mountain City lawns. Nothing exciting comes to mind for a report back on the three av...