Nelda Merriott 1934-2016

Muleshoe lost one of its most loyal supporters and tireless workers last week when Nelda Merriott died unexpectedly. She was 82. Obituaries give you all the basic family information: she as born April 1, 1934 in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Virgil and Ora LeBleu, the...

Lobivia and Rebutia Do Their Thing

Over the course of the last three months I have enjoyed a variety of very different flowers, some which just happened to be all in the same pot. For example, look at these beauties on a lobivia I bought last year. In the same pot this little mammillaria plumosa...

The Trip to Colorado Springs- Getting There

Bill and I took a little trip to Colorado Springs to escape the heat and just be tourists for a few days. Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods were what we had in mind to see, but we stumbled upon some other trip-worthy stops along the way. We drove north through the...

Try Silky Thread Grass in Your Xeriscape Garden

You may not have a cactus garden, but you might be wanting to do more xeriscaping in your garden, and if so, you might consider adding some Mexican feather grass, also called silky thread grass. I started out with some of this grass in a bed between the house and the...

Say Hello to Daisy

It always happens that when we lose a cat, fate seems to send us another. You might recall we recently lost three cats within four months of each other and were down to two. In January Siam came to live with us. The other day Bill told me we had a cat hanging around...