Storage room sale early March

Rotan Self Storage, located at 113 North Garfield, will have a storeroom sale March 4 at 9 a.m.

The contents of three storage units will be up for auction.

All items must be removed by the successful bidder.

Trustee sale scheduled for March

A substitute trustee sale has been set for March 5, as posted on the Fisher County website.

Parcel 22457 will be up for public auction. It is a little over 14 acres, coded as qualified ag land, market value appraised at $24,740. It is east of Roby, situated off of US 180.

The posting indicates the sale will take place at 1:00 p.m. (or 3 hours after that time), at the courthouse.

Due diligence should be taken before the sale to check the title and to see if the buyer will be obligated to take on a bank lien.

What do Alan Alda and Sammy Baugh have in common?

I'm always searching for something to read. A book ready at hand helps me to keep my mind in place. I don't know how non-readers keep their sanity. Maybe they go out and do things. I'm not much for doing things.

There are a lot of books in the world, but somehow I am at a loss between volumes as to what to read next. I even got intellectual recently and read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. A lot of talk about farming while in between a lady goes crazy on drugs after a torrid love affair and throws herself in front a train. 800 plus pages of all that. I hope I didn't spoil it for you.

In a desperate hunt for the next read, I went down some rabbit holes and somehow came across a little tome titled MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. 

Everyone is most likely familiar with the series, which starred Alan Alda in the role of Hawkeye Pierce, and some might even have seen the movie.

The book was written by Richard Hooker and published in 1968. It was based on his experience as a surgeon in the Korean War.

There I am, reading along, and one of the characters in the book says, "Way to throw! Who ever heard of Sammy Baugh?".

That's all that was said about our local claim-to-fame, but it was a shot out of the blue to see it in print. 

Look at us, we're famous! In a roundabout way.

So, Alda and Baugh have a connection, even if it's in a six degrees of separation type of way. They got it in two.

Rotan property on auction now

Texas Communities Group currently has an ongoing auction for a parcel within Rotan city limits.

Parcel 6229, address listed as 601 East Mead, can be bid on until March 4, when the online tax foreclosure sale ends.

The Fisher County Appraisal District has listed the value of the property at $47,940.