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You’ve Always Been Told To Not Light A Fire With Gasoline

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We were taking earlier about a boy dropping a match in a dump truck gas tank and how dangerous it was. Well this is something I saw done in Mexico at Kenny Ranch that he used to have before life became so dangerous across the border. Out on the patio at the lodge there was a large fireplace with a grill where they cooked steaks on an open fire. The workers would pile wood in it then get it going with gasoline. Yes gasoline. Here’s what they would do. They would cut the top off of an aluminum beer can, … Continue reading You’ve Always Been Told To Not Light A Fire With Gasoline

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MORTON SALT MINE – Grand Saline, Texas

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The following is an article that was published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph Newspaper. GRAND SALINE — The Morton’s Salt Mine here is a large-scale operation, generating 450,000 pounds of salt for a wide assortment of products each year. (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE PRODUCTION RATE APPEARS TO AN ERROR – my best guess is they produce that amount per day – 450,000 pounds is equal to eighteen 18 wheeler loads. It’s possible the real amount is 450,000 tons per year) Aside from the 207 employees working at the five-day-a-week plant, the inner workings of the mine are rarely seen … Continue reading MORTON SALT MINE – Grand Saline, Texas

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It Took Me Weeks To Figure Out Why She Was Upset

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Not long after we married in 1971, I came home with Madeline a brand new 1972 Dodge Demon automobile. It was an absolute beauty. White with a White Pearlescent Vinyl Top and Snowy White Interior. Very sporty but not in a hot rod sort of way. More in a very hot, young chick sort of way. That baby had all the beauty and innocents that my new wife had. My Dad had gone with me to Austin to buy it. I needed him to drive my pickup back. What better thing could a new husband do than go buy the … Continue reading It Took Me Weeks To Figure Out Why She Was Upset

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My Old Friend Horst

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Horst was truly one of the nicest old fellows I ever met. He worked as a superintendent, building apartments. He may be the only man in that position I never had a head-butting with. There was something about the way he approached things, that I worked extra hard to be sure I pleased him. We first started working together in the mid 1990s. Our friendship grew over the next few years. Horst loved deer hunting. I started including him in any hunts we were going on, whether business or when I was taking my sons hunting. He had wonderful stories … Continue reading My Old Friend Horst