The Bula Cemetery Time Capsule
The year 1976 was the Bicentennial of the United States. It was also the year that Betty Harlan and a group women called Women for Texas Cotton from the Bula, Texas, area traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby for the current farm bill. I'm not sure if the farm bill...
Jaimie’s Boston Marathon Adventure
The Boston Marathon began in 1897 with fifteen entrants. The 2026 Boston Marathon had 29,020 entrants, and Jaimie Davis ran with them. What a deal! This is her story. Jaimie Diaz , daughter of Harold and Dawn Diaz, grew up in Farwell where she ran track and played...
Angela Reyes now on the Board of Directors at TCTA
When I started teaching in Muleshoe at Watson Junior High, I joined Texas Classroom Teachers Association. Dorothy Beddingfield, who taught social studies at the junior high, was also a member of TCTA. Sometime during my first year or two here, she suggested, more...
Avery, the Powerlifter
Avery Cantu, Muleshoe High School junior, has been bending, twisting, and lifting for me while I recover from my recent back surgery. She has also been squatting, bench pressing, and deadlifting her way to the Texas High School Powerlifting Association's state meet...
I Beat the Puzzle! It’s Done,
If you read the blog about the thousand-piece puzzle that was eating my lunch, I said I would let you know if and when I finished it. Well, at 12:06 p.m. Sunday, February 3, after church, I put the last piece in place! And it only took, what, two months and a week?...
The 2026 Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Banquet
It was frosty cold Friday night, January 30, but warm and inviting at the Muleshoe Desert Rose for the annual Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture banquet. Entertainment was provided by Matthew Ancira from Farwell and a lovely meal of salad, prime rib, mashed...
The Puzzle That is Testing my Sanity!
A couple of Christmases ago, the grandkids and I, mostly Ben and me, worked on a puzzle when we weren't cooking or opening presents. So, in 2024 when Ben, AJ, and I went to climb Guadalupe Peak, I picked up a puzzle at the park gift shop, thinking that would be an...
One Man’s Travels with Old Glory
Years ago, Bobby Henry from Muleshoe and Paul Burns from Michigan flew together in the U.S. Air Force. They were in the same squadron, and Paul flew with Bobby several times from 1982-85. They were friends, even shared dinner a few times with Bobby and wife Belinda,...
The Muleshoe Pitching Pit
If you drive by the parking lot behind the Oneita Wagnon Senior Center in Muleshoe and look at the north side of the lot, you can't help but notice a bright gray mule on the side of the storage container. And if you look closer, you will see the mule is overseeing a...
Song Sung Blue-My Adventure
I bought a new computer monitor on December 22. AJ and Ben set it up for me on December 24, only to be greeted by a big line that turned into a long black rectangle on the screen; the screen was cracked. So, on December 27, as Christmas was officially over and...
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