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Cecil Lewis, Crazy Times, The Construction Biz, Thoughts and MusingsLeave a comment

Cec And The Big Billy Goat

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When we were building the Guadalupe River State Park my dad, Cecil took his small travel trailer down at the very end of the park at the rivers hairpin bend, to stay away from everyone else. The park land extends across the river at that narrow point and has some primitive camping and hiking over there. Between the time we bid that project and it actually getting under way, there was the huge flood that snapped off gigantic cypress trees and altered the landscape forever. Cec would sit and watch a herd of Spanish Goats that climbed the rock bluffs … Continue reading Cec And The Big Billy Goat

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He Bit My Thumb

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There are a few things in life that really don’t mix. Being really tough and drinking too much are a good example of this. Cecil Lewis was tough guy and he drank a way more than he should have. Back in 1980 – 1981 I had contracted to build a new state park and campground area down on the Guadalupe River near the little community of Bergheim not far from Boerne, Texas. When I needed him, my dad would help me out on projects. On this job he mostly drove a water truck. He never drank while on the job … Continue reading He Bit My Thumb

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A Look Back To A Defining Moment In My Culinary Life

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What Is Your Favorite Salad Dressing? This was a topic on a different Facebook group that I saw earlier today and it got me thinking. Everyone has an opinion on Salad Dressing. I’m fairly alright with any of them, but I do have my favorite – Blue Cheese. I can’t tell you why. It’s seems like an acquired taste kind of thing. Years ago I was all in on a tangy French (maybe it was truly a Russian Dressing) It was Pizza Huts signature dressing, then one day they did away with it. I never will understand that. On a … Continue reading A Look Back To A Defining Moment In My Culinary Life

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Is There Anything To A Dream

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(let’s hope not, at least in this case) This story is wrapped around a dream I had last night. It goes like this: A lady I know passed away a while back. Her family decided to not have a service, but maybe something will be done later. That’s not so uncommon, this day and time. Cremation has made it even more possible to delay things a bit, you know. But I walked in the cafe where I usually have breakfast and a fellow I know was sitting there drinking a cup of coffee. He invited me sit with them. After … Continue reading Is There Anything To A Dream

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Circling 4-Wheelers

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Back in the winter of 1984, Kenny had a deer lease on several thousand acres of south Texas land between Laredo and Freer. He was so gracious to ask me down a few times. (or anytime I wanted to come). Once when several people were there, but all still out hunting, he and I both arrived back at camp, a nice house actually, on our 4-wheelers. The timing was such that coming from opposite directions we reached the big open gravel parking lot in front of the house at the same time. Skillfully we head for each other but turned … Continue reading Circling 4-Wheelers

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Riding On The Back Of An Elephant

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying anything disparaging about the fairer sex in what I’m fixing to write but you tell me there aren’t differences is in the two sexes. Back in 2005 we were over in Africa. One day we decide it was a great idea to go on an elephant back tour through the wilds of Zimbabwe. We got on at a big platform with me sitting behind my wife and the lady traveling with us got on another elephant sitting just in front of an Englishman, a stranger. We weren’t yet out of sight of the … Continue reading Riding On The Back Of An Elephant

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Winterizing Your Pipes

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Back in the 70s we lived in Houston for awhile. I would listen to a popular radio station of the day during the afternoon drive time just as many people did. I don’t remember the call letters but the 2 guys were Hudson and Harrigan. It was about this time of year. One said “Well it’s about time to think about winterizing your pipes with the cold weather coming”. Other one said “How do you go about that”? “Here’s what I do. I save up my newspapers and when it comes about this time of year I’ll wrap up my … Continue reading Winterizing Your Pipes

Marble Falls and the Area Around it., The History of TexasLeave a comment

The History of the Roper Hotel

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At the Northeast Corner of US 281 & Third St. – Marble Falls The Roper Hotel is located at 707 Third Street in the city of Marble Falls, county of Burnet, in the U.S. State of Texas. It was erected circa 1888. The hotel was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1981, and added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Burnet County, Texas on January 8, 1980. The two-story structure was originally built by George and Elizabeth Roper. The building changed hands and names in 1926 and 1963, and is currently occupied by a medical clinic. … Continue reading The History of the Roper Hotel

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Taking Care Of Business

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We have been procrastinating about something for a long time. Today we went to the funeral home to do a burial prearrangement plan. As we were walking in I looked down on the sidewalk and a credit card was laying there. I picked it up. It had the name of a friend of mine in Liberty Hill. I took a picture of it and texted to that friend. He had in fact lost it. He was getting DEF fluid down the street and some of it splash his card. He laid it on the running board, probably intending to reach … Continue reading Taking Care Of Business

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Refueling During Mid-Flight

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Something had taken Kenny & me to Burnet one day back in our youth. Mostly likely it was to Bill Heckman’s Parts Store so we could get parts to fix something that was broken down. Clay Simmons had ridden along that day in that 1966 Chevrolet pickup with us. We were returning to Marble at about the only speed Kenny Lewis knew, about 90 MPH or greater. It was typical for us to have a 55 gallon drum of gasoline with a pump screwed into the top of it, to fill up any of our old dump trucks, as the … Continue reading Refueling During Mid-Flight