Playoff Time Again
Since Muleshoe had a bye this first week of playoffs, we took a short road trip to Sudan to watch Bovina beat Smyer 42-20 and came home to discover that the Mules will play Breckenridge next Friday night, November 19, in Abilene. Alas, I didn’t think to ask time...
Cotton-Stripping Time in West Texas
According to the soulful lyrics of Summertime*, “-the livin’ is easy, fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high,” but for cotton farmers in West Texas, autumn is the time when the livin’ is busy, the strippers are runnin’, and the cotton is loaded and off to the gin. By...
Childress is Definitely a Road Trip
Childress is a three-hour drive from Muleshoe, so you can see my dilemma when we rolled into the drive-way at 1:45 am: write about the game or hit the bed. Alas, you can see which won. But – I can tell you that the Mules won the ball game, 41-19, so it was worth the...
Pretty in Pink-the Shirt, That is, Not the Movie
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and the Bailey County Relay for Life committee was pondering fund-raising ideas. Since pink is the color linked to breast cancer, they came up with the idea to “pink out the stadium” at the next home football...
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