Nature’s First Green Really is Gold

Nature’s First Green Really is Gold

Now don’t panic-I’m not putting you through an English lesson on poetry-and we could look at this one on several levels, but Robert Frost said it best when he wrote “Nature’s first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold.” We drove down to the Texas Hill Country for our...

Dreary Saturday Blues

Dreary Saturday Blues

Pity Party Central here. B.B. King is wailing about the “Stormy Monday Blues,”  and as much as I like B.B. King, Bobby Bland does that particular song better. The sky is overcast and gray, as it has been for several days,  the wind is still blowing, the...

Ben’s Basketball Game

Ben’s Basketball Game

Our neighbors down Highway 84 at Sudan watched their girls’ basketball team, the Nettes, become the Class 1-A state basketball champs. The town was giddy with pride and joy over the team’s accomplishment, as they should have been. But we traveled south last weekend to...

In Honor of Black History Month

February is Black History Month, and before we turn the page on the calendar,  I want to say thank you to some of the Americans of African descent who have enriched my life. Thank you to George Washington Carver for his work with peanuts.  While he didn’t...

My Valentine’s Day Rocked!

My Valentine’s Day Rocked!

No, really. My valentine was an all day road trip to gather rocks for my latest landscaping project. My husband has this knack for coming up with appropriate gifts for me. For example, after I received my fist Painted Pony from my friend Hellen, Bill gave me a second...

The Heritage Thrift Shop

The Heritage Thrift Shop

Back in the 80s the Muleshoe hospital auxiliary had a thrift store run by Jennie McVicker and  Dorothy Green, wife of Dr. Green at the hospital. This thrift store operated from two different locations, the last one being on Highway 84. Time passed and about the time...

Muleshoe Heritage Center-There’s More

Muleshoe Heritage Center-There’s More

Let’s look at the rest of the historical structures that have been added to the Heritage Center and meet some of the people who are important to its existence. The one-room school house came from the Stegall community, southwest of Muleshoe. The little school is...

Muleshoe Heritage Center

Muleshoe Heritage Center

At the west end of town, on the north side of U.S. Highway 84, also known as  American Boulevard, you will pass a very tall, imposing mule shoe, the world’s largest, in fact. This jenny slipper marks the entrance to a labor of  love, the Muleshoe Heritage Center, ...

Please Stand By…Technical Difficulties

Man, don’t you just love computers. When they work. Perhaps you have noticed a slight change in format of the blog. And perhaps you have had trouble writing comments, because I have had trouble responding to comments for about the last week or so. My tech support...

Bare Legs and Bad Choices

Well, I made the mistake of clicking on one of those MSN teasers about what the movie stars wore to the People’s Choice Awards and saw that the so-called well-dressed are still undressed with bare legs. Britain’s  new royal princess may have had brief success in...