A Cautionary Tale About the Box of Family Pictures

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...

Barrett Produce

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...

It’s a Dog’s Life

The thermometer has been hitting 100 and more; the wind, for once has not blown even any hot air for relief, and scorching would be an apt adjective for what it feels like to go outside, which none of us cared to do, the “us” here referring to Bill and me, Mari,...

National Museum of the Pacific War

We went to Lake LBJ this past weekend, and one of our main reasons for going was to visit the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. Caroline, Neil, Colten, his friend Carina Reyes, Korben, Ty, Bill and I all piled into Caroline’s Tahoe and made the...

South Padre Island 2016

We had so much fun at South Padre in 2011, the decision was made to go back and try it again. So we did. Let me share some pictures of the things we enjoyed while there. We visited the new birding and nature center that just happened to be across the street from our...