I was surprised and honored to be asked to be the Grand Marshal of this year’s parade. What a deal!
Photo courtesy of Terry Brewster
Had I not been the Grand Marshal and leading the parade, I would have been watching the parade and taking pictures. I did take this one, from a bit of a different perspective, looking at the Honor Guard from Cannon AFB right behind us. Chamber board member Bryton Steinbock and son Suttyn, rode with me as husband Austyn drove the cart.
I waved to the crowd, but I didn’t use the cliched’ British wave, just my usual big hand wave. And I enjoyed seeing friends and watching the kids hoping I was going to throw candy for them. I will have to admit I didn’t think about bringing candy; I didn’t mean to disappoint them, but it was fun watching them gather up candy from other floats.
Photo courtesy of Terry Brewster
Ol’ Pete, resplendent with a new shiny finish, came behind the Honor Guard. It was fitting that he be in the parade since he had already been in a big deal parade at Washington D.C. at George W. Bush’s inauguration back in the day. I even have a picture of him in that parade in another blog story.
Photo courtesy of Terry Brewster
Terry shared pictures of some of the other floats: this one from Bailey County Electric Cooperative;
the Five Area Connect float;
Photo courtesy of Terry Brewster
and for me, the best entry in the parade, this real live painted pony! I like the idea and was impressed with the fact that this horse was willing to stand still while Cassandra Regalado painted. And the fact that Samalia Regalado rode bareback so the flag would show was a nice touch. And it’s a credit to the horse for behaving in the noisy parade. Good job to all three of them!
Photo courtesy of Terry Brewster
As the Steinbocks and I came to where the parade was to end, we went back and parked by the courthouse and watched maybe about half of the rest of the parade. This is where I got to see the horse and some of the other floats, including this one from Mendoza Irrigation spraying the kids in the crowd with water.
After the parade, people enjoyed the vendors at the courthouse as well as the food trucks, contests, just visiting, and later the fireworks at the park. I watched some of that from my house since I needed to be home with Cookie, who is scared of fireworks and thunder. Lots of activities on this 250th anniversary of the United States of America.
It was quite a day.
Thanks to the Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture for staging the events and asking me to be the Grand Marshal, Austyn and Bryton Steinbock for driving me around, and Terry Brewster at Reflections in Time for sharing her photos with me.
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