Career Fair at Muleshoe High School

by | Dec 11, 2022 | Bright Lights

Steven Butler, Student Services Coordinator at Muleshoe High School, wants students to be aware of all future career options available to them after graduation, so for the past five years he has organized a career fair at the high school. College or going straight...

Get a Leg Up

by | Dec 4, 2022 | Bright Lights

One time years ago when grandson Colten was younger and we were talking, somewhere in the conversation I made the comment that whatever it was we were talking about would give him a leg up. A leg up. What? He didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. So I explained...

This is How to Really Protect Your Agaves

by | Nov 16, 2022 | Cactus Are Cool

I  have an Agave Ovatafolia, commonly referred to as a whale’s tongue agave, that I bought in Austin at least ten years ago. I was told it was cold-hardy, so I planted it in the cactus bed, and for the first three or so years didn’t bother to give it any...

The White Rhino Agave

by | Nov 8, 2022 | Cactus Are Cool

I told you about the melocactus I brought home from the TACSS meeting in Austin this October. I also came home with a new agave, the one commonly known as the white rhino, and the one a website labeled “Arguably the most coveted novelty of the genus.”Well! I had no...

My New Melocactus

by | Nov 3, 2022 | Cactus Are Cool

I came home from this year’s Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies (TACSS) seminar with a Melocactus Salvadorensis, the first melocactus I have added to my collection. Native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America, this is...