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...
Remodeling is Done; Divorce Didn’t Happen
Well, we made it through without having to consult a lawyer! Forty-one days later, give or take a few days for packing up, unpacking, and re-hanging pictures, and we now have a fresh, clean, new look to the heart of the house. And Bill likes it more than he thought he...
Olabelle and the Muleshoe Library
If you read last week about Magann Rennels (Need An Answer? Ask Magann), you know her mother was an interesting person with a story worth telling and who has also made a lasting contribution to Muleshoe. Olabelle’s family originated in deep East Texas in the town of...
Need An Answer? Ask Magann.
While gathering information the other day for another article I was working on for the blog, a question came up my source could not answer. “Ask Magann,” I was told. “She’ll know.” So I did. And she knew. Magann was named after her grandmothers Mag Singleton and Ann...
Diamond Dust and Rabbit Tracks
The snow came, just as predicted, and Mari insisted she take a walk in it. So I bundled up and went out with her. I pulled out the extra-cold weather gear and my hiking boots from Kilimanjaro, and off we went. The sky had cleared and was bright blue against the...
A Little Something to Brighten Your Day
I don’t know what it looks like where you live, but here it is dull and drab, brown and brittle. What is usually hard packed ground has become inches of sand with zero moisture to hold the dirt together. The weatherman said just the other day that it has been...
Tales from the Tile-less House
Week four and we are still camping amid the mess. Chase rolled the refrigerator into the almost finished utility room, which means that every time I need something out of it, of course I walk right back into the kitchen where it is supposed to be, thanks...
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