I originally posted back in 2015 about a trip I took out to the Warren Jeffs Compound near El Dorado, Texas. A Trip To West Texas As most of you know there isn’t much to see when traveling through much … Continue reading A Trip Out West To The YFZ (Yearning for Zion)
When we were kids going to school in Jollyville, there were the Reeves boy’s that were the same age as Kenny and me. Donny was Kenny’s age, while Danny and I were in the same grade. We often visited each other’s house and played together. Then the Reeves’s cousin Elvin Horner came to live with them. He was Kenny and Donny’s age. The Reeves family moved and we lost touch with them. That was about 1963. By the mid 80s I was awarded a contract to construct a development project in Round Rock. When we got started building it, I … Continue reading Another Strange Happening
We traveled from Marble Falls to San Antonio for our 1970 senior trip. (Whoopee, that was a dandy trip after putting in 12 hard years) Late in the afternoon we ended up by Breckenridge Park at an amusement park / arcade.Several of us, Madeline included, decided to go to a fortune teller. When it was my turn she read my palms or something and said ” one day you will write a book”. I don’t remember what it cost for the fortune teller but we all laughed until we cried at how wrong she was. You see I would never … Continue reading The Fortune Teller
The interesting life of one of Austin’s most notable psychics. The following is from The Dallas Morning News, November 17, 2011 In 1927, in a place called Harmony, near Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, Bertie Marie Cotton was born on a … Continue reading Bertie Catchings – Psychic
Nostalgia: When Bevo was barbecue, and other trials of Texas’ most famous longhornBy Jim Weber Jim Weber runs the college football and men’s basketball site LostLettermen.com. This week, he looks at the early trials of Bevo, introduced to Texas on … Continue reading BEVO was “What’s For Dinner” !
I’d like to take yawl on a journey with me this morning. One like you don’t often experience. I used to wear you out talking about my early morning trips to the hot tub with me soaking and posting. Then … Continue reading The Hot Tub Odyssey
Under Texas Skies – This book has been in my family since the 1950s. It was given to my mother Bonnie, by M.H. “Moton” Crockett Sr. Mr. Crockett being elderly by the time the 1950s rolled around, enjoyed the company … Continue reading Moton Crocket Sr.
This story is about a feller out in West Texas, not someone I knew. But when I heard him tell the story it was just like I was listening to my Dad, Cecil Lewis telling a story. With it having … Continue reading A West Texas Story
While this is the grave marker that is on his grave, there was another one that set on his front porch for years. He had commissioned the original one to be made with the epitaph as you see below. Sometime … Continue reading Lee Odiorne’s Tombstone
About this time of the year, October 1974 took us down past Huntsville to do a drainage project. It was a new development on Lake Livingston called Waterwood. It was aptly named, especially that year. We were in a piney … Continue reading 1974 was a really wet year over in San Jacinto County, Eastern Texas
Angora Chronicles 