Taggants is a word I have seldom used, but I’ve held it in my mind for the past almost fifty years. Yesterday I was watching an episode of Forensic Files. A very dated episode at that made probably 20 years … Continue reading Taggants – Used In Explosives
I was a 17 year old kid, just growing boy. Butch Sayers got me to go with him to Marysville, California to deliver a truck load of Corriente Steers (Mexican Roping Steers). It was just over a year after this that I married Butch’s niece, Madeline and he became Uncle Butch. We left Marble Falls in the middle of the afternoon in Butch’s Kenworth Cabover and arrived in Del Rio at the stockyards after dark. The trip had been sprung on me suddenly and I didn’t have a chance to eat before we left. I mentioned to Butch a couple … Continue reading Eating In Del Rio
After my Mother in Law, Maxine Gatlin passed on a few weeks ago, we decided to honor her with her very own book of stories of her life.The sad fact is she had asked me to help her write and … Continue reading A Book Dedicated To The Life Of Maxine Gatlin
This newly released book about Burnet County is very well researched and written. Well worth the purchase. I was very taken by the one chapter about Will Fish. I had never known about Mr. Fish until a few years ago. While spending time with my good friend Sam Hall he has often referred to his Uncle, Doctor Will Fish. For ever so long I thought he was using that as a metaphor of some sort. When he’d be telling a story about all the fish he caught with his buddies out at Decker Lake, the he’d say “my Uncle, Doctor … Continue reading An Interesting Look At Burnet County, Texas
I was reading an old post this morning from about 10 years ago. This jumped out at me. Even though it happened almost 6 decades ago, it seems like not that long ago. But it seems to typify my life, … Continue reading This Is How I Was Raised
This is a story I will tell from the bits and pieces I’ve gathered up from various sources, including accounts on the internet. It seems there was a Jones family that lived in Oklahoma. W.W. and Mandy Jones were both born in 1874 so they probably had been married for a while by 1914. On the morning of June 1, 1914, they found a newborn baby girl at their door. They took that baby and raised her as their own. This baby was named Laura Mae. Most likely the Jones Family was driven out of Oklahoma by drought and the … Continue reading The Baby Left In A Basket By The Door
This is my own phonetic breakdown – (Ode-E-Un, said real fast) Well my friends Lee & Annette Ussery sent me the transcript of the conversations of a bunch of area people gathered around the Ussery place several years ago, talking about Lee Odiorne and many funny and amusing stories that were told about him. Lee had passed on by that time, but his legacy still lives on through the stories that continue to be told about him. The following story was told by Joe Wennmohs:Lee & another fella were driving between Lampasas and Lometa, drinking whiskey and taking things real … Continue reading This is one of the tall tales about Lee Odiorne (O’-di-orn)
Angora Chronicles 