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3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Damn, some of y’all had some good looking grandmas 👀

 

@Patricio Swayze dq in Bloomington is solid. Exxon has decent tacos. 


Seadrift taqueria is damn good, better than most Tex mex in Austin 

Bubba’s, 5 mins down the road is excellent. Get the shrimp boil, great burgers and cfs too. Entire menu will not disappoint. The Sunday fried chicken buffet is undefeated 

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Time to relax with Dad's side. This photo was one of many that I busted out of a locked box that had been unopened since at least the 70s and most likely the 50s, full of high school memorabilia and stuff from right before he went off to the Army.

L-R my Dad's Mom, three sisters, and sister-in-law. Relaxing at Kowaliga (pronounced Ka-LIE-ja just like the Hank Williams Senior song*) which was a "beach" on Lake Martin just north of Montgomery. I think this was a family get-together with his older brother who was Air Force, sent in a care package to my Dad at wherever he was.

*"I saw Hank Williams on the stage, and in the casket."-- Daddy Canecutter

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1 hour ago, Sam Lin said:

My grandpa was already the most frugal person I've ever known or heard of...

My granddad had a slightly sloped driveway that went into the garage. When he reached the edge of the driveway, he would turn off his green ford pinto and slowly coast into the garage to save the gas.

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Not an ancestor (unfortunately) but a kinsman: I recently found out that this man and my great-grandmother were first cousins. (My dad's side of the family tends to bury the feats of the womens' families, and my ancestor who was close kin to him died kinda young):

stark+center+golf+kite+,+penick,+crensha

 

I can't golf for shit and am not in line for the book millions, but Harvey Penick is the only Longhorn sports legend I am kin to. 

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14 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Great Uncle Frank outside his semi-dugout he built on his North Dakota farm next to the Missouri River in the early 1900s. It now lies under 100’ of Lake Sakakawea water after the feds dammed up the river in the 1950s.

Luckily he retained the mineral rights and he & his wife were childless (she had accidentally shot her little brother to death in 1890, which guilted her into not wanting any kids herself). So their family descendants have had a windfall of several million dollars in oil & gas royalties in recent years. Their former 260 acres is in the middle of the rich  Bakken Oil Play.

They never imagined their hardscrabble farm would eventually yield millions…. from two miles under the ground.

 

 

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Cottonwood cabin that lasted 40-50 years? I’m officially impressed. 

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Great-grandfather Plummer coming out of the pilot boat and headed to the wheelhouse of an oceangoing ship in or around one of the Neches River ports. He was literally the son of a son of a son of a son (however like you want to drag out that lineage) going back to Maine. His people got to Texas around 1838 via the sea and cuckoldry: his great-something grandfather somehow found himself in what is now the Lake Charles area in 1837 after a long voyage from Maine. He wrote a letter back to his brother up there that still exists -- he humblebrags on the Louisiana climate and how kickass the boat he is building is, before he gets to the meat of the matter: "Dear brother of mine, I would be eternally grateful to you if you would travel to my old home and check in on my wife and the new baby. Please mark well if the baby resembles me in any way. If it does -- good, I will send for them to join me here. If it does not, I will start a new life here and she and the baby can be supported by the baby's father."

Welp, the baby did not look like my ancestor, and wasting no time, he married a local Cajun lass and had about eight kids by her. The whole family fled back to Maine in 1862 or thereabouts -- the OG Texan in this line had by then become the keeper of the Sabine River lighthouse, and Confederate partisans believed he was signaling the US Navy, and so wanted to string him up. And it was a particularly bad yellow fever year....He and the family were evacked on orders of Admiral Farragut himself, who dispatched a gunboat from New Orleans to save the Unionists of Sabine Pass. If you ever saw Cold Mountain, those Secesh Home Guards really were that bad, at least in Southeast Texas, from the Thicket down to the coast. 

They stayed up in Maine about 15 years -- long enough for one of his sons to marry the daughter of the same brother he'd asked to Maury Povich that baby, so this cousin-ancestor of mine wound up with a father, brother and husband with the same first, middle and last names. My grandmother is very proud of this inbreeding even now, at almost 100 years of age. She sees it as making us more like the royals. I see it as stamping me with a double dose of Golden Triangle funk I can't shake. 

Around 1880 the entire family migrated right back to Sabine Pass, and then spread themselves down to Bolivar and up into Beaumont and the new town of Port Arthur, most of the men becoming seafarers. The stories my grandmother told me as a kid were so bizarre I thought they had to be fairy tales but I've since seen them verified in old newspaper accounts and other documents.

 

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On 12/25/2022 at 8:37 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Time to relax with Dad's side. This photo was one of many that I busted out of a locked box that had been unopened since at least the 70s and most likely the 50s, full of high school memorabilia and stuff from right before he went off to the Army.

L-R my Dad's Mom, three sisters, and sister-in-law. Relaxing at Kowaliga (pronounced Ka-LIE-ja just like the Hank Williams Senior song*) which was a "beach" on Lake Martin just north of Montgomery. I think this was a family get-together with his older brother who was Air Force, sent in a care package to my Dad at wherever he was.

*"I saw Hank Williams on the stage, and in the casket."-- Daddy Canecutter

Kowaliga1950s.jpeg

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Yours truly with a nice little haul from Lake Amistad610556524_IMG_20221228_2144333812.thumb.jpg.f1b9afb586abef4c0d9f29cbce6bd9ae.jpg

I never knew that Squints was my older brother.... Must ha e been before kissing Wendy Pfeffercorn 1628740152_IMG_09202.JPG.d97dd7ca98fb43a02d8c988185efce73.JPG

My older brothers in my grandmother's kitchen with a couple of Dad's targets 611528528_IMG_20221228_2142307952.thumb.jpg.86edef220f99ed0b9f4ae476c3d40621.jpg

My old dog Smokey, passed away during my junior year at Texas. Great great dog. That lawnmower was an OSHA nightmare. I started it by winding a piece of rope around the top of the engine and pulling. No chute nor foot guards and definitely no Deadman handle to shut it off when you released the handle.

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Grandmother, mom's side of the family846676623_IMG_20221228_2207501412.thumb.jpg.22cd2eb0d15e1bf011f8c466b8ed1912.jpg

Grandfather, Dad and my older brothers  at  grandparents house 1830582921_IMG_20221228_2140469782.thumb.jpg.34a150bb5e76878fcf144dae03eef86e.jpg

Granduncle and my older siblings 1586604885_IMG_20221228_2141059042.thumb.jpg.fff61c14bc8da7dfdb9ee05a23863326.jpg

Mom and Dad 1596254653_IMG_20221228_2145565622.thumb.jpg.0b99b5821824fa317f7c43ee020ce249.jpg

Dad somewhere in SE Asia... His 2nd home during the 60s. LOL 1550215188_FB_IMG_16556543345062.thumb.jpg.d31f6c743fb18dd522a5ceac8fbe2d90.jpg

Mom. No doubt miserable because she was probably pregnant with me and having to deal with the Texas heat, in my grandparent's backyard. Grandfather drove that old '57 until, literally, the day he died in 1977.

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Relaxing somewhere along San Felipe Creek in '59RHGMom2.JPG.8f758c7e1e8bb81bbf3989b9db6d75b7.JPG

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