South Padre Island 2016
We had so much fun at South Padre in 2011, the decision was made to go back and try it again. So we did. Let me share some pictures of the things we enjoyed while there. We visited the new birding and nature center that just happened to be across the street from our...
Major Sullivan Reminds Us Why We Honor Memorial Day
We were greeted by Major Josh Sullivan at our Muleshoe Memorial Day Service this year. As he spoke, his words were informational, inspirational, and humbling. I felt like they were words worth sharing, so I asked if he might allow me to reproduce his speech here in...
A Different Memorial Day Story
We attended the annual Memorial Day service at the old Bailey County Cemetery this morning, also visited family graves in Groom and Bovina, and saw the Thunderbirds Sunday at Cannon AFB, but I will share those stories with you next week. We saw something new to us...
Alice and Elaine Do The Hill Country
You may have read about my friend Elaine and I traveling to Charleston, South Carolina, last year (“Elaine and Alice Do Charleston,” November 24, 30, December 7, 11, 2015); this year’s trip was all over the Hill Country. And I do mean all over the Hill Country-and...
Dewberry And Poison Ivy–The Vines That Keep On Giving
This was quite the weekend: a Farmers Market in Burnet, Maya’s birthday, Mother’s Day, and the ultimate I Told You So moment for Bill-my trip to the dewberry patch with Erin, Ben, and Frodo. We drove down Friday to the Hill Country to be to Burnet bright and early...
Welcome to Beta Sigma Phi
We had our annual Founder’s Day celebration last week and named our choice for Woman of the Year for 2016: Dolores Harvey, for her work with the Muleshoe Heritage Foundation. Dolores and three former Women of the Year, Gina Wilkerson, Maureen Hooten, Magann Rennels,...
Bluebonnets Aren’t Always Blue
One other discovery I made on this last trip to the Hill Country was a little cluster of white bluebonnets. We all enjoy the flood of bluebonnets in the Spring. And you may have heard of or have seen the pink bluebonnet that we Aggies prefer to call maroon, or as it...
The Rest of the Mesquite Tree and Wildflower Story
So to continue my story about the wildflowers and railroad track, I was told about a half mile down the track there was an old railroad trestle and yet more bluebonnets that would make for a nice picture. Well, I needed my daily walk anyway, and a half mile isn’t that...
Mesquite Trees and Wildflowers
Every year about this time the wildflowers come out in the Hill Country, and every year I tell myself I have enough bluebonnet and paint brush pictures. Every year the little devils seduce me once again, and I take yet more pictures. But this year I think I took as...
Painting is Therapy
We decided to sell our rent house, the one we bought and fixed up for Caroline and Colten when they moved back to Muleshoe. They didn’t live in it very long; Neil came along, swept her off her feet and whisked her off to Clovis. And that’s a good thing, but it left us...
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