I want to start by saying I don't know the first thing about writing a book. I do know enough to look in the front of several in my library for a pattern of some kind and this is what I found. First, I need a PROFOUND STATEMENT for page one so here goes. Dizzy Dean said, "If you can do it, it ain't bragging." I wouldn't have known that except I heard Nolan Ryan, another baseball player quote him in a television commercial. Since this will be written in first person singular, there will appear to be a lot of bragging. Next, a table of CONTENTS. That will come as different episodes are written and posted to the web site. I also need a section titled ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and here I have something to say. I want to thank my friend Max Booker who came up with my nickname, "Froggy." We have been best friends since 1958. Next, Edwin L. "Skip" Skipworth who has encouraged me from the first to write a book. I have only known "Skip" and his bride Wilsie for a little over a year, but it seems like a decade or longer. We worked for the same company at different times.
Me |
I was born August 7, 1933, in Haskell County, Texas. My dad was a cowboy for the Swensons, ranch people who owned land in several counties. First picture of me that I have is me in his lap at about eleven months sitting on the water wagon. Just about everyone hauled water back then. The railroad furnished it. This was back in the steam engine days when the trains still took on water from a tower. Ranchers and farmers would drive their wagons up under the spout for a load of life giving fluid. I don't know if they paid for it or not. Can't make much difference now.
My dad wanted to be a truck driver from the first time he saw one. He finally started driving full time soon after the war broke out and was driving one the day he died December 7, 1986. We moved many times before I finally settled in Weatherford, Texas at age fifteen.
I want to call this book, ME AGAIN. If anyone objects, please let me know. The phrase is one a customer used every time he called me about the automobile I had sold him. I hope you enjoy the stories and photos.
Preface 1 2 Hog Killing and Other Occupations 3 The Photo 4 Take the Tour 5 My Name is Froggy 6 Cairo 1984 7 Pet Peeves 8 When In Rome 9 Hail Columbia 10 On the Trail 11 Orville and Wilbur 12 Move Over Buddha, You Have My Seat 13 Move Over Buddha Continued 14 Birds 15 Gardening 16 Guitar Pickin 17 Marriage, Truth or Consequences 18 Weed Eaters 19 Cross the Brazos at Waco 20 The Lonestar Tavern 21 Flying Coffins in Cairo 22 From Butte to Paradise 23 My Favorite People 24 Tight Lines, Sharp Hooks 25 Rescue at Sea 26 Of Course I Can Fly 27 Working Without a Net 28 How Do You Want Your Eggs? 29 Showdown at Gambler's Gulch 30 Get the Net! 31 If I Could Would You? 32 That Reminds Me 33 Coffee, Tea or ... |
34 Very Important Truffles Alert 35 Airline Meals 36 On the Way to Work 37 Do's and Don'ts 38 A Day at An Shas 39 Geronimo 40 Kids Will Be Kids...Or Something 41 Moby Dick 42 Life at the Sheraton 43 Life is a Gamble 44 "Now I lay me down..." 45 Treasure or Trash 46 It Pays to Complain 47 Scoutmasters 48 The Judge 49 Not Ever Again 50 Repo Man 51 Keep Those Caissons Rolling 52 The Nigerian Cardinal 53 Intentional Spins Prohibited 54 GI Joe 55 Lead Me Not Into Temptation; I Can Find It By Myself 56 Debbie Reynolds and the Blue Tail Fly 57 Bits and Pieces 58 Wonder What the Poor Folks are Doing 59 TWA and My 1938 Chevy 60 Early Point and Shoot 61 Cairo Memories 62 Just the News 63 Deer Season 64 Camping Out in Germany 65 Characters 66 And now, for the rest of the story 67 Adios Amigos |
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