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Having a holiday meal at the ranch with cousins, aunts, and uncles. I was bored and went out to play by myself. I turned over a metal disk about a foot in diameter. Underneath were a bunch of interesting bugs. I thought about playing with them, but decided to move on. Later I learned they were scorpions.
My family was big into boating and skiing. It was a thing with the pilots in particular I think.
During the summers we would often go back to Albany Tx to be with family. My grandmother Dorothy and Herb owned the Hereford Motel. One time when I was about 10 years old everyone was gone and I was sitting in the front office. A man came in to get change for a 20 dollar bill. I handed him the change. Later Dot found that I had mishandle the change and given him a extra $5 bill instead of one of the ones, so he got too much change back. Same man came back later to ask me for change for another $20 bill.
I was helping putting away groceries once at the motel. Unlike our horizontal freezer Dot had a standup freezer. Thinking the vertical appliance was a refrigerator, I put the eggs and other groceries in the freezer. Eggs are not great after they have been frozen.
I was walking behind by grandmother Lurline at the ranch one day. She walked right over a baby rattlesnake without seeing it. I almost stepped directly on it.
At the ranch one year, my cousins and I collected lightening bugs in mason jars. Very cool to have your own lantern. I learned then that a jar full of dead bugs doesn't smell to good a few days later.
Places we lived growing up:
10/54-11/54 BillyMitchellVillage San Antonio TX
12/54 Theo Street San Antonio TX
12/54- 6/55 80 Messquito Hondo TX
6/58- 8/58 1202 1/2 Reynolds St Laredo TX
9/58- ?/62 Riedel's Trailer Park Schertz TX
?/62- 2/63 BaseHousingRandolfAFB San Antonio TX
3/63- 7/63 Sumpter S.C.
7/63- 7/64 5 Cleamenceau Terniers France
7/64- 7/66 GRH Laon France
7/66- 7/67 ?15? Princton Montogomery Alabama
7/67- 3/68 Apache Victorsville CA
4/68- 7/69 800 Amherst Abilene TX
7/69- 8/70 Mountain Home Idaho
8/70- 6/72 2349 N. Union circle Alamagordo NM
9/72- 6/74 1705 Commanche Trail Harker's Height Tx
9/74- 6/76 882 Westwood Abilene TX 79603 915-672-