Below is a conversation I had with ChatGBT. All of my questions are in the highlighted text & AI gave the answers in non-highlighted text. The amazing thing to me is every answer is instantaneous. As off the wall as … Continue reading Is AI a Yes or a No for You?
The link below is a “true story” of becoming an old man and not realizing it in time to avoid spending money chasing a dream, chasing your younger self. In my case I got it in my head that I … Continue reading Being the Open-Book that I seem to be:
This is the story of making the Wooden Dolphins. During our time living in Corpus Christi a few years ago is when I carved the largest of my projects, a pair of Dolphins. It was during a time when I was really suffering a lot of lower back pain. I received several steroid injections, was seeing a chiropractor often, but nothing was working. A very nice lady that lived out on The Island helped us with our interior decorating. One day I was complaining about my back and she told me about a next door neighbor lady of hers that … Continue reading The Fiasco Of The Wooden Dolphins
I was watching the YouTube video (link below) recently about the disasterous Highway 1 problem that continues to plague California. https://youtu.be/UWtVTnsLgLA?si=9WtaSlBWI5_z5f6V Then I remembered reading a book one time, many years ago about RG LeTourneau and what happened to him … Continue reading Highway 1 – Big Sur, California
Bertram, Burnet Co. Texas The gin was located near the current site of the water tower. In its heyday, Bertram had at least six gins and shipped thousands of bales of cotton. Continue reading The Round Bale Gin
There are so many stories of Cecil Maugham and his ability to walk long distances at a surprising pace. Seeing this one photo from a time when I best remember him, in the 1960s/70s brought me right back to the … Continue reading Cecil Maugham – A True Marble Falls Legend
The Faith Family I had always heard of the Faith Family and knew there was a connection with them and Smithwick. Since they were all gone by the time I came along I never knew anything about them.I found this information online. There are references here to them operating a cotton gin in Smithwick and having members of both the Stinnett and Boultinghouse families (both of which I’m related) marrying into that family.It also gives a little insight into the old Jim Cox home that was across the street and where I spent many hours visiting my childhood friend Jim … Continue reading A Cotton Gin In Smithwick
I was talking to my granddaughter Emma last night. We were saying what a great thing it is that she is teaching at Faith Academy. I know she loves her job and that the kids that she teaches love her. … Continue reading The Butterfly Effect
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
We once had a project, installing a really large waterline in Dallas. It was actually in the Oak Cliff neighborhood south of downtown. This was in the late part of the 1980s. It was a really rough part of the city. I haven’t spent much time there in the past couple of decades, but something tells me that things haven’t improved much. I’ll tell you how bad things were, it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary to find a dead body along the right of way of our project, which started out down near the Trinity River and came up … Continue reading Vicious Guard-Dogs – Oak Cliff, Texas
Angora Chronicles 