During my career as the vice-president of a firm that designed and manufactured pressure vessels and tubular heat exchangers for the process industries, I had many occasions to travel to Texas. Here are several incidents that might amuse or interest you.

Two families lived side by side on Water street in the village of Elizabethtown, New York. In one lived the town doctor and his wife the town dentist. Their youngest child, Edie, had a cat named Princey.

February finally arrived in the village of Elizabethtown, New York. The maple trees that adorn water street in front of the town doctor’s and town dentist’s home, the Wood family’s home and the home of the widow who lived in the little house across the way were ready for tapping for the sap that would…

Two families lived side by side on Water street in the village of Elizabethtown, New York. In one lived the town doctor and his wife the town dentist. Their youngest child had a cat named Princey. The Wood family lived in the house next door. Robby Wood, the family patriarch had a dog named Rover.

This is a mostly true story. The names of the individual in it are fictitious and have been changed in the interest of privacy.

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