Muleshoe and the Braceros
The United States, and Texas in particular, will forever have ties to Mexico (Remember the Mexican-American War? Fajitas and burritos? The Alamo? ) But we also share a history regarding workers and labor. That history dates back to the 1800s, but in the 1950s, it...
Minnie, the Velcro Cat
The date was January 7, 2007. We had not had a stray cat or dog show up for a while. So apparently Fate saw fit to send one our way. Out of nowhere appears this young gray female cat, very vocal, and most happy to see us. Bill did his usual protest-we already have...
Déjà Vu at the Art Show
The Muleshoe Art Association held their annual spring show on April 6. I had never been to one of their shows, so I decided this would be the one. Off I went to Muleshoe State Bank’s meeting room, where the show is always held, and was impressed with what I saw, and...
Our Version of the Masters
Muleshoe golf team: Tyson Turnbow, senior; Beau Avila, junior; Colten Harris, sophomore; Jonathan Perez, senior; and Mateo Castillo, junior. We spent the day yesterday, April 19, watching the Mules golf team take 6th place at the regional tournament in...
Loreda and the T-shirt Quilts
A while back I had the bright idea to make a quilt out of all those T-shirts I just had to have as souvenirs and mementoes and which were taking up huge amounts of space in my closets and drawers. I had seen a kit advertised in the newspaper for doing just that, so I...
Benny Pena 1928-2011
We said goodbye to a classic cowboy Saturday. Benny was 83 years old and had spent all of those years working cattle, riding horses, and helping people. When I say all those years, I mean literally all those years, as he started out life on horseback as a baby,...
George, Reba, and Lee Ann Sing for Us
We attended a modern county music lover’s dream concert last Saturday night in Lubbock at Texas Tech’s United Spirit Arena. Lee Ann Womack opened the concert, followed by Reba McEntire, and ending with George Strait. What a deal! The day tickets went on sale I had...
The Cedar Posts Story
Conventional wisdom claims that no good deed goes unpunished. I offer this situation for your consideration. We spent part of Spring Break at Lake LBJ in the heart of the Hill Country and offered to bring back cedar posts for our son-in-law to build a new...
In Praise of Skilled Craftsmen
Ray and Alex came to install the new sink and faucet the other day. I watched as they figured out what went where and worked out all the kinks in a job that looked incomprehensible to me. These are the same men, remember, who moved a wall, rebuilt a closet, put up...
Stinky Dog
On Friends Phoebe sang about Smelly Cat. Well, now we talk about Stinky Dog, a.k.a. the Skunkanator. Little Miss Destructo Dog has confronted a skunk not once, or twice, but three times now, the last two within two weeks of each other, and I...
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