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The Ennis News

Daily Horoscope 10/21/2021

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

Daily Horoscope

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

Daily Horoscope 10/19/2021

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
Speak up and offer suggestions. It's time to be bold and find out exactly where you stand. Put your plans in play. Take charge of your happiness, and you will discover a way to reach your goal. Life is about living, not just existing. Stand tall, be counted and do your part to secure your lot in life. Take a positive path that allows you to explore exciting avenues. Put the utmost into getting what you want and refuse to let anyone stand in your way. Anger won't solve anything.

Daily Horoscope 10/18/2021

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
Establish what you want and find out how to achieve peace of mind and happiness. A positive outlook will help you turn your dream into a reality. Comfort and convenience at home will make it easier to deal with sticky problems. Make decisions that will encourage a lifestyle that reflects who you are and what you want to do. Someone will take advantage of you if you are too accommodating. Focus on taking care of your responsibilities and doing the best you can. You can offset someone's efforts to take charge.

Housing developments swelling in Ennis

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Plans continue for additional family dwellings in the Ennis area according to Chief Building Official, Mark Richardson.

“In all of my years here,” he said, “I’ve never seen anything like the interest in Ennis these days. These are exciting times. There is plenty to like about our community, and our location on I-45 works well for folks who aren’t crazy about the I-35 corridor.”

A lifelong resident in the area, the Palmer High School graduate listed locations not previously announced in The Ennis News.

Writer, artist returns to baton twirling

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Like a boomerang or riding a bicycle, some learned skills have a way of returning when needed most. For Patty (Barberee) Hullett, the circle-back has renewed the joys of another time and another place.

Along with her husband, Don, they out in the countryside of Ennis. The proximity has allowed the tandem to work together as correspondents for The Waxahachie Daily Light, Don shooting pictures and Patty doing interviews and writing news in Ennis, many of them sporting events.

Dozens of cousins

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“We are cleaning up our stuff,” Meschack, the tile layer who now more or less permanently resides in our home, informed me. “We are giving you more space.”

“More space!” I said in mock amazement. “Why would I need more space? I see at least three square feet over there by the closet and another four feet behind the dining room table!”

Meshack squinted his eyes and looked at me seriously, as he does. He was again accompanied by his assistant, Yusefu, a recent immigrant from Kenya.

The refrigerator gets to stay

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Editor’s Note: This column was penned prior to the death of Susan Lincoln’s husband, Don, on Sept. 9, 2021. Since columns featuring “The Husband” are favorites for many of her readers, it is published today with her gratitude for nearly 40 years of marriage where laughter prevailed.

Our hard-working refrigerator has been in the business of cooling the family’s food since the year 1989. Recently, it asked for a few days off but we encouraged (actually we begged, pleaded) with it to continue spitting out ice cubes and humming all day long.

Struggling to tame our tongue

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We tend to have a much-higher opinion of ourselves than what we ought, but everyone with a lofty self-perception is surrounded by a world of porcupines.

In this day and age of social media mimicking the national news media by doubting and digging and provoking with a certainty of discovering a seedy, underneath side of others, especially those who have established themselves as a person of some importance, the great unwashed (you and me… Joe Q. Public) has given ourselves a license to dig up dirt and talk about it.

Mary Ann Toupal

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Mary Ann Toupal passed away on Saturday, October 9, 2021, just one day shy of her 91st birthday. By her side when she entered into her Heavenly home were her caregivers, daughter Jeanette and her husband Jeff along with granddaughter Erika and her husband Gage.