My dad Cecil talked LJ Henderson into bringing a track drill, normally used to drill holes for blasting rock, down to Smithwick to drill a water well. That wasn’t the conventional way to drill a water well, but Cecil Lewis … Continue reading Drilling A Water Well
If you are thinking about getting married and you both have deep roots in Burnet County, it’s a good idea to look at your genealogy. You never know who your cousins are. In our case my 5th great grandfather and my wife’s 6th great grandfather were one and the same. Of course this isn’t a new discovery, but it’s the first time I had diagrammed it out to this degree. Continue reading Marrying Cousins??
In the following essay, I will attempt to tell you all about myself and a lifelong encounter I’ve had with ADHD. Of course when it first came up on my radar it was referred to as Attention-Deficit Disorder or ADD. I was already grown. But looking back over a lifetime I had so many of the symptoms. All the words in Bold are what AI told me in response to my original question, the title of this piece. My intention is to go through AI’s version and give my personal thoughts and experiences, all of which will be italicized. ADHD, … Continue reading I Asked AI To Tell Me All About ADHD
Much has been talked about this old building. I’ve never heard anyone say they were pleased that it was torn down. It was such an iconic building. I had thought that the building was demolished due to it having asbestos … Continue reading The Marble Falls Methodist Church
Bill is a woodworker. Actually he is a woodturner, mainly. His works are beautiful. He lives in Bertram. It’s an amazing story of how we met. Madeline has a cousin in Houston that owns a bookstore that specializes in Murder … Continue reading Let me tell you about Bill (originally told on Dec. 3, 2014)
I received a text from a fellow I know this morning. He sent me a picture of one of my business cards. It was a card from sometime prior to 1985. That is when I sold my office on Montopolis Drive and moved on with a new address. So that’s how I knew how old the card was. He found it taped to the wall in a house he had recently purchased. Out of curiosity I ask where the house was, thinking that I may know the person that lived there. As soon as he told me which house it … Continue reading Connecting The Dots After 43 Years
When I was a kid, back in the 1960s, my mother and dad took up a hobby of lapidary. Bonnie Gay was always hunting for special rocks and Indian artifacts. When it came to arrowheads and such she had a … Continue reading They may have been Thundereggs
Today was a nice Saturday morning. The day of our Fall – Smithwick Cemetery Meeting. As our meeting was concluding I was told of a headstone that had probably been moved accidentally while an adjacent grave was being dug. I reported that the grave digger was due there on Monday to open a grave and I would contact him and ask for his assistance in putting the upright piece back in the center of the base slab. Just to be sure that I knew the exact location and conditions, I stopped back by the cemetery. I found the headstone in … Continue reading It Happened So Fast
Ivan Shepperd posted a story a while back about the big rock in his front yard growing up. It was left there after construction in the neighborhood at the request of his mother. Seeing that rock when I passed there … Continue reading Mustang Drive Boulders
Angora Chronicles 