Posts Tagged Dan Findley
July 2, 2014 at 11:30 am · Filed under Crazy stuff, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days, Weird stuff ·Tagged Arizona, Arlington Arizona, Buckeye Arizona, Charles L. Mashburn, College Station Texas, cows, Dan Findley, dry washes, Highway 6, humor, miracle invention, miracle invention called a bridge, only when it rains, Peach Creek, sacramento
In a story yesterday, “Dan Was Here!”, I showed a picture of tiny Peach Creek just south of College Station, Texas. A bit further down from where the creek runs under Highway 6, the creek feeds into what’s known in Texas (other places too, I’m sure) as a “tank”. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 1, 2014 at 2:46 pm · Filed under Crazy stuff, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days, Weird stuff ·Tagged Arizona, Arlington Arizona, Buckeye Arizona, Charles L. Mashburn, College Station Texas, cows, Dan Findley, dry washes, Highway 6, humor, miracle invention, miracle invention called a bridge, only when it rains, Peach Creek, sacramento
As I was walking this morning, I came to the bridge that spans Peach Creek, and I decided I’d take a couple of photos and share them and this story with you. I’m thinking my old pal, Dan Findley, might have spent some time in Texas.
Peach Creek Bridge – Hwy 6, south of College Station, TX
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May 29, 2011 at 5:54 pm · Filed under Crazy stuff, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days, Weird stuff ·Tagged Arizona, Arlington Arizona, author, Buckeye Arizona, cars, Charles L. Mashburn, cows, Dan Findley, demon possessed, demon possessed car, dry washes, EPNG, events, evil, funny, good old days, humor, laughter, miracle invention, miracle invention called a bridge, moo, only when it rains, sacramento, southern arizona, story, The Car Was Evil!, writer
The first construction project I ever worked on was a Sears store in Sacramento, California. It was a big job, and I was one of a dozen or so laborers on the project. Our foreman was this huge Jamaican guy named Bethel Lee. He was at least six and a half feet tall, and weighed probably three-fifty; one of those gentle giants, though; a really nice guy and everyone liked him. But when he got angry, he could look ferocious and intimidating. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 17, 2011 at 8:15 am · Filed under Crazy stuff, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days, Weird stuff ·Tagged Arizona, Arlington Arizona, author, Buckeye Arizona, cars, Charles L. Mashburn, cows, Dan Findley, demon possessed, demon possessed car, dry washes, EPNG, events, evil, funny, good old days, humor, laughter, miracle invention, miracle invention called a bridge, moo, only when it rains, sacramento, southern arizona, story, The Car Was Evil!, writer
In my story, Mooooooo, I told y’all about the time I drove down into the dry wash in Arlington, Arizona—doing about 75—and there was a herd of cows in the road. Well, a few years later, I was relating that very same story to a friend of mine up in Sacramento, California. Read the rest of this entry »
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