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
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
I’ve only had this happen once and that was aplenty, thank you very much. The reason I referred to a vapor lock, that is an old term we seldom hear any longer. When I was a kid, It was a common occurrence. That’s when a gasoline line on an old vehicle would become too hot, usually because it wasn’t insulated from the heat of the exhaust. The gasoline would turn into vapor, stopping the flow of liquified gas. The engine would die and leave you stranded. There were a couple of remedies. You could sit for awhile until it cooled … Continue reading The Morning I Vapor Locked And Thought I Was Dying
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
Turtles are the only thing living in our stock tanks for the past few years, after we cleaned them out and enlarged them. An order for fish to stock them has been made, therefore it’s time to lessen the turtle … Continue reading Shooting Turtles
This is the story of a piece of land I got up in Dallas one time, to settle a debt. Here goes: These real estate deals can be crazy. Outfit owed me about $300k on an apartment project in Houston in the 1990s.I put a lien on it and waited about 2 years.They wanted to sell the project so they had to square with me.They had 21 acres in south Dallas they gave me in trade for releasing the lien. How can I go wrong owning 21 acres in Dallas, with I-35 frontage? Except when I sold it about a … Continue reading Not Every Land Deal Will Make You Money
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
Angora Chronicles 