Tales From The Kitchen: Potato Salad Overload

Tales From The Kitchen: Potato Salad Overload

My next kitchen faux pas was also while we were at A&M. It was the turkey day game weekend and John Phillips, Bo Reagan, and a couple of other Aggies down the street were having their girl friends in for the big weekend. The plan was to all enjoy a barbecued...

Tales From The Kitchen: Learning to Make Pie Crust

Tales From The Kitchen: Learning to Make Pie Crust

Following recipes accurately was one problem in my early cooking days (see “Tales From the Kitchen: The Giant Cake,” January 31, 2013); incomplete recipes were quite another matter. Besides the cook books I received as wedding gifts, most of the recipes I tried to use...

Tales From The Kitchen: The Giant Cake

Tales From The Kitchen: The Giant Cake

When the kids were growing up, they spent most of their summer afternoons over at the country club pool right across the street from our house, and because the walk from one to the other was short, they and friends would pop in and out from time to time during the...

Quanah Parker Shot An Arrow Into the Air…

Quanah Parker Shot An Arrow Into the Air…

Quanah Parker shot an arrow in the air and one of them landed in Muleshoe. The latest addition to the Muleshoe Heritage Center is a 22-foot tall arrow sculpture, the 48th such marker to be installed on the Quanah Parker Trail, a project undertaken by the Texas Plains...

In Defense of Litter Boxes

In Defense of Litter Boxes

I thought about taking a picture of one of the litter boxes referred to in the story, but a picture of the cats who use them seemed a better choice! I read a newspaper story the other day about a man and his wife visiting a woman who had 32 cats. His wife warned him...

Colten Brings Home Another Dog

Colten Brings Home Another Dog

TThe blog is late this week because have been conducting triage on our newest family member.  Meet Porche, Colten’s latest contribution to dog rescue. Porche, which we choose to pronounce pour-sha, came to live with us after her accident Sunday afternoon. Colten...

Roy Rogers’ Rules to Live By

Roy Rogers’ Rules to Live By

Had an eye appointment the other day to check on the progress of my cataracts, one of those inevitable perks of aging, at Dr. Avery Rush’s office in Amarillo. Dr. Rush’s examination rooms are all decorated in theme-based styles. I have been in the Elvis room, the...

We Awakened to a White Christmas!

We Awakened to a White Christmas!

When we went to bed on Christmas Eve, the world was brown and plain; when we woke up on Christmas morning, the world was white and magical. It was also cold as gee-whiz golly, so I chose not to brave the wind and cold to hunt for magical snow pictures. So instead of...

Feeding the Masses at Our Church Ministry Dinner

Feeding the Masses at Our Church Ministry Dinner

Well, maybe not the masses, but a mass of people enjoyed a turkey dinner on December 10th at First United Methodist Church in Muleshoe. This is the fourteenth year we have invited quite a variety of people to share a meal with us: residents of the nursing home, Meals...

The Christmas Parade and Heritage Center Open House

The Christmas Parade and Heritage Center Open House

Muleshoe had their annual Christmas parade and the Heritage Center had their annual Christmas open house on December 1st. I wanted to share those events with you even though I am little behind, twelve days to be exact, but who’s counting? No one, I hope! But Christmas...