Yes, Jesus, Another Cat!
I shared with you the story of Daisy, the stray cat who recently came to live with us (“Say Hello to Daisy,” August 14, 2016). Daisy is a young cat, the youngest of our bunch. Perla and Minnie cared nothing about playing with her; Siam was still settling into her new...
The Geese Dropped in for a Visit
Sometime in the mid-90s when Bill’s mother, Eloise, and her husband Pete were wandering aimlessly around America in their motor home, they wound up in Sidney, Nebraska, location of the original Cabela’s store. About that same time three large Cabela boxes mysteriously...
Peace and the Simple Life
On the second Sunday of Advent, Chris and Gina Mardis lit the candle of peace of our Advent wreath at church on December 4th. Chris spoke of experiencing peace with God, peace with yourself, and just as important, sharing and passing peace onto others. It was the...
Muleshoe Livestock Auction
Most Saturday mornings on Highway 84, just a stone’s throw away from the city limit sign on Muleshoe’s east side, the line forms in front of Muleshoe Livestock Auction, Inc., just as it has since 1955 when Clayton Myers embarked on a business venture that has become a...
Where Have All the Good Songs Gone?
I enjoyed the Trinity Christian Center Church Christmas concert Friday, delightfully performed by a host of singers led by pastor Reydon Stanford They have done this concert for the last 17 years, spreading Christmas cheer and accepting a love offering to be...
A Word About Blessings
A Sunday or two ago our pastor Mindy McLanahan neatly tied together finding one’s purpose in life to being a blessing in someone’s life. She read a story to us from a book titled Enough; Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity, by Adam Hamilton (Abingdon...
A Mini-Movie Marathon
My friend Hellen took a road trip with me a couple of weekends ago. We spent Friday being led astray in San Antonio by a misbehaving GPS program while looking for a Toyota dealership, which the car GPS eventually found for us. So when we made it back to Marble Falls,...
Veterans Day 2016
I did lose an uncle, but I am one of the fortunate ones: I lost no father, no son, daughter, no husband, and so far, no grandchild in any American war. I am also blessed to be an American. Nothing breaks my heart more than to see the headstones at a National Cemetery....
Tales and Trails of Bailey County… the first seventy years
Bailey County has its own history book, a labor of love put together by Bailey County citizens. The book was published in 1988 by Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas. When it was published, many citizens who contributed information for the history book eagerly awaited...
The Book Signing- From Tea Cakes to Tamales
My friend Nola McKey had a book published this Spring, From Tea Cakes to Tamales: Third-Generation Texas Recipes (Texas A&M University Press) and I am in it! So when she was asked by the Marble Falls Public Library to give a short presentation for their Lunch with...
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