Cotton-Stripping Time in West Texas

Cotton-Stripping Time in West Texas

According to the soulful lyrics of Summertime*, “-the livin’ is easy, fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high,” but for cotton farmers in West Texas, autumn is the time when the livin’ is busy, the strippers are runnin’, and the cotton is loaded and off to the gin. By...

Childress is Definitely a Road Trip

Childress is a three-hour drive from Muleshoe, so you can see my dilemma when we rolled into the drive-way at 1:45 am: write about the game or hit the bed. Alas, you can see which won. But – I can tell you that the Mules won the ball game, 41-19, so it was worth the...
Pretty in Pink-the Shirt, That is, Not the Movie

Pretty in Pink-the Shirt, That is, Not the Movie

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and the Bailey County Relay for Life committee was pondering fund-raising ideas. Since pink is the color  linked to  breast cancer,  they came up with the idea to “pink out the stadium” at the next home football...

Mules Run Over River Road

River Road beat Muleshoe last year, so there might have been a score to settle, but I don’t think that is why the score was so lopsided-Mules 72, River Road 16. The Mules were by far the better team. We invaded the end zone first, and it was not until the fourth...
Joe Bob Stevenson 1944-2010

Joe Bob Stevenson 1944-2010

  Joe Bob Stevenson took us all by surprise when he rode off into the sunset October 7. He had gone through by-pass surgery and we all thought everything was going to be all right.  But it wasn’t. I could tell you all the information from his obituary again, but...