by Alice Liles | Aug 23, 2016 | Bright Lights
Bill and I took a little trip to Colorado Springs to escape the heat and just be tourists for a few days. Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods were what we had in mind to see, but we stumbled upon some other trip-worthy stops along the way. We drove north through the...
by Alice Liles | Aug 14, 2016 | Bright Lights
It always happens that when we lose a cat, fate seems to send us another. You might recall we recently lost three cats within four months of each other and were down to two. In January Siam came to live with us. The other day Bill told me we had a cat hanging around...
by Alice Liles | Aug 8, 2016 | Bright Lights
These days the world is not always a safe place, even for those people we entrust to keep us safe. To recognize and honor those individuals whose job it is to keep the peace and be present in time of crisis, the Bailey County Ministerial Alliance sponsored a community...
by Alice Liles | Jul 25, 2016 | Bright Lights
A pallet manufacturing plant in the middle of West Texas somehow seemed like a strange thing to me, so I decided to find out how it came to be that L&L Pallet Supply, Inc. wound up in Muleshoe. General manager Travis Hall graciously agreed to answer all my...
by Alice Liles | Jul 19, 2016 | Bright Lights
Last week I drove to Graham, Texas, loaded with four boxes of pictures. You know, those boxes we all seem to have, the final resting place of ancient family pictures, early pictures of the current family, and odds and ends of family records that you don’t really know...
by Alice Liles | Jul 11, 2016 | Bright Lights
Barrett Produce has been packing potatoes in Muleshoe since 1952, but the family business has been around much longer than that. The potato shed was thriving when we moved here in 1980, both of my kids worked there a couple of summers, and the business has become a...
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