by admin | Jan 12, 2011 | Bright Lights
Thirty years ago when we moved to Muleshoe we bought land for our house from E.T. Ford. On January First E.T. celebrated his 90th birthday. He was actually born at 2 pm on January 2, 1921, five miles northeast of Boyd, Texas, but New Year’s Day seemed a fitting day...
by admin | Jan 6, 2011 | Bright Lights
If you read last week, you know we are having some remodeling done to our house. I packed all the wrong things, like a pie pan I use to make cornbread to go with the black-eyed peas we Southerners traditionally eat for good luck on New Year’s Day. So I will just...
by admin | Dec 30, 2010 | Bright Lights
Monday after Christmas I received a box from Mother and Daddy’s longtime neighbor, Marge Beard. Tucked neatly into the box were six crocheted glass cozies and a letter. She wrote: “You won’t receive this before Christmas as I am enclosing it in a box I have been...
by admin | Dec 22, 2010 | Bright Lights
There was a time in the recent past, defined here as my teenage years, when elaborate sequin and bead-decorated Styrofoam balls were all the rage for Christmas ornaments. Mother and I thought they were pretty and decided to make some. She dug out remnants of pretty...
by admin | Dec 15, 2010 | Bright Lights
I taught a high school leadership class for several years, and every day I posted what Zig Ziglar called a vitamind, a positive saying that served as a vitamin for the mind, if you will. We of the older generation grew up with these maxims, proverbs, and such,...
by admin | Dec 7, 2010 | Bright Lights
One of Muleshoe’s sometimes overlooked claims to fame is the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1935 to provide a wintering area for migratory waterfowl and sandhill cranes. The refuge, located 20 miles south of town on highway 214, celebrated its...
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