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The weather turned cold again this past week, so I had the pleasure of hauling a bunch of large house plants back inside from the porch. They had only been out there a week. I knew better than to take them to the porch in the first place considering Water Valley was very clearly experiencing another annual episode of False Spring, but I just couldn’t help myself. The denial of False Spring as actually being false is the only real thing about it. Anyway, tricked again.
I’m currently writing this from New Orleans in the very early morning where the temperature is near 40. None of these swamp people know what to do with temperatures that low. Yesterday afternoon while temperatures were in the lower 50s, I saw women wearing minks. It must be some sort of fashion related torture to live in New Orleans and own a great mink that you never get to wear. Of course, the tourists from Michigan are stumbling down Bourbon street in flip-flops.
Worse than the weather in terms of causing physiological confusion has been adjusting to Daylight Savings Time. If you are an early bird/rooster such as myself, then waking up later is anxiety inducing. We morning people love all of our morning hours and don’t want to accidentally sleep through any of them for they are all blessed, each and every one. Besides that, I need all the hours I can get! I’m getting too old to have the government just taking away hours of my life all willy-nilly.
Speaking of early birds, the Eupora Eagles JV baseball team had a very loud bird call in their dugout that they wouldn’t stop blasting at the game Saturday against the Blue Devils. It was causing a good bit of annoyance among coaches and spectators who were not affiliated with the Eupora Eagles or eagles in general. I don’t know if I’d take a mascot call to a game where the opposing mascot is a Blue Devil. What if we had a devil call? There’s no telling what we fury could unleash. We managed that without a call, though, as the Eupora Ducks didn’t fare so well.
In terms of goings on around town, we have another edition of the Water Valley Main Street Wine Down coming up! This event is always fun so on Thursday, March 30, at 5:30 p.m. y’all be sure to head down to Main Street for a sipping and shopping after-hours experience. The idea is that you sort of stroll from business to business for wine tastings. There will also be sweet deals, door prizes and live music. Twenty bucks gets you registered for the wine tasting and a free tumbler for said wine.
Lastly, did you know that under a two percent Tourism Tax you could buy $1,000 worth of Subway sandwiches (that’s 167 6-inch subs) and $20 would go to funding our town’s parks? And a park is a good place to sit and eat a sandwich. Yes, it’s that time again where I get to address my favorite town subject besides building a Splash Pad: the Tourism Tax! It’s coming up again and I hope y’all turn out for the vote in June.