My Posse
Celebrities have nothin’ on me. I am escorted everywhere I go by my posse. Mari, Porche, and Peaches are there -whether I need them or not. Mari has been my constant companion ever since she broke out of Caroline and Colten’s fence one day after joining the family and...
Cotton Now Comes in Rounds
During cotton-stripping time, these bright yellow bales starting popping up at the gins, outnumbering the conventional cotton modules we have all come to expect. Since I had written about the cotton modules earlier (“Cotton-Stripping Time in West Texas,” November 9,...
Goodbye to Poopie Cat; 1999-2015
Poopie came to live with us when Colten came to live with us so he could finish high school in Muleshoe. She had been a part of his life since he was five years old. Then when Colten left for college, I was his stand-in. So I felt like she was my cat, too. She was...
Got Snow?
Yes, yes we do! I think this little disturbance will go down in history as the Blizzard of 2015, the most snow and the worst storm we have had here since 1980. When it hit Saturday night around 6:30, thunder and lightning came with wind that blew in the 35-60 mph...
Christmas in Muleshoe
We had a nighttime Christmas parade this year, all bright and twinkly. Several floats and lots of tractors were all decked out in lights of many colors. A parade is just not a parade without horses, and we had several riders who braved the darkness, but it was kind of...
Christmas in the Country Concert
I was invited to attend Muleshoe’s Trinity Church’s Christmas in the Country concert on December 3rd, and I am so glad I went. For the past 16 years this concert has become a Christmas tradition at the church, a way to celebrate the coming of Christ and raise money...
Elaine and Alice Do Charleston: Mount Pleasant; Boone Hill Plantation and Gardens
Mount Pleasant is east of Charleston across the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge. The former John P. Grace Memorial Bridge built in 1929 across the Cooper River had become insufficient for traffic and in need of major repair and was replaced in 2005 and renamed for South...
Elaine and Alice Do Charleston: Cypress Gardens, Mepkin Abbey
Today we struck out for Cypress Gardens, a short 24 miles from town. The swamp garden was created where Dean Hall rice plantation once existed. Where the other plantations we visited were covered with oak trees, this garden was, as its name implied, water and...
Elaine and Alice Do Charleston: Middleton Place; Magnolia Plantation
Our first stop was Middleton Place, a short drive from downtown. According to the Fodor’s Travel book on Charleston, Middleton Place is America’s oldest landscaped gardens, having been planted in 1741. I will have to admit I was expecting the house to be more on the...
Elaine and Alice Do Charleston
It was time for good friend Elaine and I to take our annual road trip. Well, sort of annual; we fit in a trip when we can so that the last time we see each other won’t be at one of our funerals. The destination this past summer was Charleston, South Carolina. We met...
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