Another Road Trip, This Time to Kerrville, Bandera, and Comfort
The destination for the annual Alice and Elaine trip this year was to the southern edge of the Texas Hill Country: Kerrville, Bandera, and Comfort. I left in the dark and made a six-hour trip, according to the Internet, in five, so don’t believe everything you read on...
Road Trip to South Padre Island
We chose the hottest week of this summer to make the two-day trip down to the southernmost tip of Texas to play in the water and eat lots of shrimp and fish at South Padre Island, across the causeway from Port Isabel. All three families-us, Caroline’s, and...
Jean Allison, 1922-2020
When I mentioned to daughter Caroline, who had Jean Allison as a teacher, that Mrs. Allison had died, she just smiled and said, “Everybody loved Miz Allison.” Then, at Jean’s funeral service, as nephews Steve Osborn and Larry Allison shared stories, more than once it...
The Wall of Honor
Last Veteran’s Day, members of the Oneita Wagnon Senior Center who were veterans were honored with a Penning Ceremony by Jade Woodard, Volunteer Program Manager with Interim Home Health Agency out of Levelland. For the event, a small Wall of Honor with pictures of...
The Fourth of July That Almost Wasn’t
Saturday, July 4th, was a busy day, but the coronavirus almost shut things down. The parade was cancelled, which was a real shame, but other events gave the people of Muleshoe ways to celebrate and enjoy Independence Day....
Another Graduation to Remember
After three date changes, granddaughter Maya finally had her high school graduation. This was going to be our first experience with a virtual presentation, thanks, of course, to the coronavirus. We could have stayed home and watched it on our TV, or computer, maybe,...
Muleshoe Featured on FOX34 Our Town Spotlight
On May 11th Operations Manager Charlie Whisner and cameraman Colby Ward came to film an interview with me for their FOX34 Our Town Spotlight of Muleshoe series. They came in masks and gloves, politically correct, or maybe just coronavirus correct. But this is what...
The St. Clair Saga
When we moved to Muleshoe in 1980, one of the prominent stores on Main Street was St. Clair’s Department Store and we met many members of this extended family. As I have written stories about Muleshoe and the country club and golf course, that St. Clair name would...
A Graduation to Remember
After too many postponements and recanted bureaucratic decisions to count, grandson Korben Kron, a 2020 senior at Texico (New Mexico) High School, participated in a COVID-19 style outdoor graduation ceremony Sunday, May 17th, in Clovis, New Mexico, in the Faith...
It’s Miller Time! Miller Bug Time, That Is
Once again we are being invaded by those pesky brown moths known collectively as miller bugs; Euxoa auxiliaris, miller moths, if you want to be entomologically and linguistically correct. And that still might not be exactly right because brown moths come in a variety...
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