Category: Amazing Things

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I Feel Like My Life Is One Big Bundle Of Surprises

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Yes I’m always surprised at what pops up around every corner, or so it seems. Some of those unexpected “surprises” are not good but most of the time they are something to enjoy. Having this forum I get to share much of this, the good and the bad with many of my friends.  I would love to tell you something that happened a couple of days ago. It involves one person that many in Marble Falls knows and that I’ve call a friend for well over a half century, probably around 55 years. This fellow is a few years older than … Continue reading I Feel Like My Life Is One Big Bundle Of Surprises

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The Car Business

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I often talk about all the different cars I drove when I was a kid. I may have shown up to school in a different vehicle just about any day. To say we were in the used car business would be an over statement. Cecil Lewis was an entrepreneur of his own kind back in the day. He dabbled in about anything that made a little money or kept his sons busy. Buying and fixing up used cars was but one of his ventures. In my early days working for Charlie Ulbricht, I watched him do body work out of … Continue reading The Car Business

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The Story Of My Friendship With Woody and how friendships can take amazing paths.

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When my ol’ friend and neighbor, Udo, decided to retire in 1977 from the excavation business I bought his office, yard and some equipment. The office was in a great location, not far from the current Austin airport. Woody had been his accountant for many years and a deal was struck for him to come with me. Woody was trustworthy and meticulous. Just the kind of guy I was looking for. He and I became best of friends. Woody and Lucy were both around 60 and had been married for about forty years. They never had children. Madeline and I … Continue reading The Story Of My Friendship With Woody and how friendships can take amazing paths.

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Rattlers Were Ever-Present

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The Lewis Brother’s holding up a couple of large rattlesnakes back in the spring of 1960. We lived “Down on the Creek” as referred to it. That was just above Bull Creek out of Jollyville. The hilliest, rockiest piece of ground you ever tried to walk across. We were riding horses, our enterprise back then was breaking and training shetlands, when we rode up across the hill looking down toward our house. These two snakes were rearing up and wrapping themselves around each other. I’m sure we thought they were fighting, but mostly likely they were romancing. Kenny tore on … Continue reading Rattlers Were Ever-Present

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I always said “Do Your Research And Move On With It”.

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I’ve been thinking I needed to buy a new lawnmower. Couple of my boys had bought electric lawn equipment and they were very proud of the EGo brand. I used their leaf blowers and I was impressed. When they all lived in Georgetown and had regular sized yards they could mow them without stopping to charge the battery. The reviews had good things to say about EGo riding mowers so a couple of Saturdays ago I went to Leander at the Lowe’s Store to look one over. After about two hours of wheeling and dealing they figured out they had … Continue reading I always said “Do Your Research And Move On With It”.