by Alice Liles | Aug 13, 2020 | Bright Lights
New Muleshoe ISD teachers started their school year Friday. Returning teachers had their first day Monday. Retired teachers who happen to be Methodists wanted to give them all a positive send-off in this year of the unpredictable. So a thank-you bag was put together,...
by Alice Liles | Aug 9, 2020 | Cactus Are Cool
The Russian sage was not performing well. I realized that part of the garden had nothing going on; it was basically wasted space. Then I watched a Cactus and Succulent Society of America webinar with Kelly Griffin talking about agaves. He shared a picture of one of...
by Alice Liles | Aug 7, 2020 | Bright Lights
When Family Consumer Health agent Kathy Carr and secretary LeeAnn Helton at the Bailey County Texas Agri Life Extension Service heard the Rejino brothers in Olton were taking meals to COVID patients there, they wanted to do something for virus patients in Muleshoe and...
by Alice Liles | Aug 3, 2020 | Bright Lights
The destination for the annual Alice and Elaine trip this year was to the southern edge of the Texas Hill Country: Kerrville, Bandera, and Comfort. I left in the dark and made a six-hour trip, according to the Internet, in five, so don’t believe everything you read on...
by Alice Liles | Jul 26, 2020 | Bright Lights
We chose the hottest week of this summer to make the two-day trip down to the southernmost tip of Texas to play in the water and eat lots of shrimp and fish at South Padre Island, across the causeway from Port Isabel. All three families-us, Caroline’s, and...
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