by Alice Liles | Jan 30, 2025 | Cactus Are Cool
Caudiciforms are plants of the succulent persuasion that store water in their caudex for prolonged periods of dry weather. If you have an adenium, commonly known as a desert rose, then you have one of these plants, sometimes called fat plants because of their...
by Alice Liles | Jan 19, 2025 | Bright Lights
The Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture held its annual awards banquet Thursday, January 16, at the Desert Rose. Sergio Leal served as the master of ceremonies for the evening, Jettfire Barbecue provided the meal, and Steve Friskup was the guest speaker....
by Alice Liles | Jan 14, 2025 | Bright Lights
Well, depending on what you want to call it, they all owned the Muleshoe business that was a version of a meat locker, a meat market, a meat processing plant, or just a meat company. The businesses in question have all been housed in the same building on a corner of...
by Alice Liles | Jan 10, 2025 | Bright Lights
We have been hoping for rain for about three months. The grass crunches when we walk; that is, if there is any grass left at all. Most of the time I am walking on dirt when I am out in the pasture to walk the dogs. Everything is brown except for sad droopy prickly...
by Alice Liles | Jan 3, 2025 | Bright Lights
When we moved to Muleshoe in 1980, King Feedyard would grace the area with a rather pungent scent after it rained and the wind was blowing from the southwest. I grew up surrounded by rice and cotton fields and cattle in the pasture, but not close to a feedyard. I had...
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