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Looking Back On A Life That Was Well Lived

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I looked it up and the life expectancy for a male in the USA in 2024 is 73.5 years. Kenny made it to 74.02 years, but even though he beat the odds by just a hair, that’s not how he lived his life. He always went far over and above the average with everything. It didn’t matter what he undertook, he wanted the best and he achieved it. If you drove out in one of his pastures, he had the best looking herds of cattle. His boar goats were bred to all have markings as close to each other as … Continue reading Looking Back On A Life That Was Well Lived

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About As Close As Kenny Ever Got To Getting On Facebook

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Not long after The Angora Chronicles got started, the following is a post that Kody made on behalf of his daddy. Actually Kenny did warn up to it all enough that he would occasionally send me a story to post. To tell you the truth, I’m pretty sure he wanted to get on FB, but was just that hard headed that he didn’t, after talking all the smack he did. I decided later on that it was much better that he stayed away from it all. When FB and company decided to start monitoring us all and taking down stuff … Continue reading About As Close As Kenny Ever Got To Getting On Facebook

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Cell Phones On The Cheap

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After the prosperous years of the 80s came the real estate bust of the late 80s and early 90s. Kenny, Coy and I (of double tailed quarter fame) were teamed up again doing work together. The days of mobile phones had given way to pagers and pay phones. Mobile phones were very expensive in the early days. My average phone bill in the 80s was $1,000 – $1,200 per month. That wasn’t for the whole company, that was just me. I stayed on the phone constantly, conducting business and doing a fair share of BSing. Those costs just weren’t in … Continue reading Cell Phones On The Cheap

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Is There A Difference In Men and Women?

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I’ve been thinking about a subject this morning that I’m going to ease into, so as to not harm anyone’s sensibilities. The other day I was telling someone about me going in and having my uvula cut out. You know the little hanging down thing in the back of our mouth, where it goes down into your gullet. This was several years ago and I scheduled it 2 days before Thanksgiving. If you look way inside my mouth now, you would think that doctor used a mini-chainsaw to whaller out the back of my throat. By the time he got … Continue reading Is There A Difference In Men and Women?

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EXCAVATING FOR A NEW BANK BUILDING

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Back in 1978, I think it was, my company contracted to excavate for the new Capitol National Bank. It was the largest job that of that type that Lewis Contractors had ever taken on. Considering it was excavating 30′ deep a full block square downtown Austin from 7th to 8th St. between Guadalupe and Lavaca and it was solid limestone rock it had its challenges. The only real way to accomplish a project like that was to blast. If I remember correctly, we did it in around 60 days. Considering the equipment we had to work with in those days, … Continue reading EXCAVATING FOR A NEW BANK BUILDING

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Chuck Norris definitely wears Kenny Lewis pajamas

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Back when Kenny had his place in Mexico, his son Kody brought a friend from Tennessee, Tom Brostowin, to hunt several times. On one trip Tom brought another fellow with him that was a New York Stockbroker type. Kenny dropped the two of them off at a big double stand for the morning hunt and then continued on. Kenny came back by little later to find them both sitting on the ground at the bottom on the stand. When ask why they weren’t up in the stand they told him there was a huge wasp nest in there. Following are … Continue reading Chuck Norris definitely wears Kenny Lewis pajamas

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Kenny’s Passing: A Reflection on a Meaningful Life

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Letting Go Is Hard, But It’s Necessary Kenny and I have always been close, walking in similar footsteps throughout our entire lives. We have shared countless moments of joy and laughter, as well as endured the hardships that life throws at us. Although I will miss my brother dearly, I will always cherish the thousands of memories we made together. The sadness lies in the fact that we won’t be able to create more memories together. Kenny and I didn’t always agree on everything, but where would the fun be in that? Now, it’s my turn to be strong and … Continue reading Kenny’s Passing: A Reflection on a Meaningful Life

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Connecting The Dots

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This past weekend was a slow one. Several times I’ve been talking with or chatting on messenger with someone and we start thinking we are kinfolks, because we have the name Lewis or Boultinghouse in our lineage. For me, of course, I carry the Lewis name around with me in my billfold right there on my drivers license. My mother was a Boultinghouse, so there you go. There aren’t all that many Boultinghouse’s in the world, or in Texas. And for the most part that is the world to me. Lewis is a name that is far reaching. There may … Continue reading Connecting The Dots

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Fast Food (really fast food)

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Anyone remember when they built the new hamburger place on William Cannon at Manchaca Rd. Best I can remember it was a Carl’s Jr. They started and worked around the clock to have it in operation in 24 hours and they did it. It was an attempt to set a record for the fastest fast food place to be built. It was in August 9, 1979 or September 26, 1982, I can’t remember which. How do I know it was one of those dates? We lived a few blocks from there. I took my wife to St. David’s one morning … Continue reading Fast Food (really fast food)