Football Season Is Also Pre-Game Meal Season

Football Season Is Also Pre-Game Meal Season

I don’t know how it is in your town, but in Muleshoe, pre-game meals before home football games is a long-standing tradition. When we moved to Muleshoe in 1980, pre-game dinners were the order of the day, if the day was a Friday home football game day. As a parent...

Mules 64, Portales 0

The sand and wind blew obnoxiously all day, and by the time the sun went down, everyone was hunkered down in the obnoxiously  cold wind. But the Mules persevered and had a much better showing than last week, beating the Portales Rams rather soundly, 64-0. Right...
History in a Junk/Antique Store

History in a Junk/Antique Store

Back in the day,my friend Nola and I spent many a happy afternoon shopping junk stores, looking for that waiting-to-be-discovered hidden treasure that we were sure we couldn’t live without. And in those days, the stores tended to be heavy on the junk; real antiques...

Mules 40, Shallowater 56

I have put off writing about this first game of the season because it was not a happy game. It was the night of the blue moon, and something happened that, of late, only happens about once in a blue moon; Muleshoe lost a football game. Shallowater owned the night,...
The Blue Moon

The Blue Moon

Well, I completely missed the boat when I wrote about the full moon the other day (“The Moon is Amazing,” August 14 ) because when I told you to check out the next full moon on August 31st, I overlooked the the fact that this moon will be one of the fabled blue moons...