Cactus, Succulents, and Heavy Rain
Muleshoe has had rain for the last seven days- August tends to be our monsoon season-and during those times when the water wasn’t falling from the sky, that sky was gray and overcast; no sunshine, which means that all my cactus and succulents, potted and in the...
Nelda Merriott 1934-2016
Muleshoe lost one of its most loyal supporters and tireless workers last week when Nelda Merriott died unexpectedly. She was 82. Obituaries give you all the basic family information: she as born April 1, 1934 in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Virgil and Ora LeBleu, the...
Lobivia and Rebutia Do Their Thing
Over the course of the last three months I have enjoyed a variety of very different flowers, some which just happened to be all in the same pot. For example, look at these beauties on a lobivia I bought last year. In the same pot this little mammillaria plumosa...
The Trip to Colorado Springs- Getting There
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...
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