![]() ![]() ![]() Also spent several weekends just outside Bryan where my Grandpa's baby brother "Selze" (given name Sylvester) had built a lovely custom home for his wife and three children, all of whom were close to my age it seemed. That Summer, I worked with my Texas Grandpa, Uncle Sam, Uncle Sammy and Uncle Homer building barbed-wire fences, installing cattle guards and sand-blasting buildings, making pretty great (tax-free) money for a sixteen year old kid. The trip back to Texas was filled with minty smoke from Grandma's Salem cigarettes as they sat in the beanbag ashtray on the dash. ![]() My Texas Grandma bought Mike a replica pilot/space helmet from one of the museum gift shops here and he wore that thing 24/7. We spent a few days seeing the sights of Tucson as it was their first time out here and then I rode back to Texas with them in her navy blue Delta 88 with an 8 track deck and a console full of Herb Alpert and Donna Summer tapes. The way I remember it, my Grandma was waiting for me when I got home the last day of school, along with my then 13 year old cousin, Mike. The last Summer I spent away from home was 1982. ![]()
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