Finally got after the website and started another

wroughtn_harv · May 30, 2009

The old folks here know the story, a tbn member created harveylacey.com and posted mostly stories from tbn. His name was Leo Frisk. Leo died three years ago I never got around to doing anything with the website except paying for the server and domain name.

Well thanks to another tbn member, bgoodman, Bobby to the old folks here we've got a twofer being a threefer. harveylace.com is now a photoblog and we still have the original site still up too. You just have to click on the link "old harvey lacey.com" link on the blog page.

I'm trying my hand at writing a novel. We've got it up at thereabouttexas.com. Bobby's been a big help. But teaching this old dawg new internet tricks is almost more than even he can do. Right now I've got the un-edited chapters up as blog entries. Eventually I'll figure out to have the novel up right. I also want to have a blog explaining the sources for the stories. Sometimes the stories as they're told to me is more entertaining than the story I come up with based on it.

This is all kinda sorta like me, a work in progress having all too much fun.....

Bird · May 31, 2009

You sure have a lot of projects going, Harvey. Good luck with them all.

jinman · May 31, 2009

wroughtn_harv said:
I'm trying my hand at writing a novel. We've got it up at thereabouttexas.com.

Harvey, you made a typo in your blog address. It should be thereaboutstexas.com.

You left out an "s" in your link.

It looks like a fun project. I'll try to check out your stories as I have time.

GaryM · Jun 2, 2009

Harv, went to the website and read the chapter titled "the Well" very nice. I hope there's going to be more soon because I want to know if they hit water!

wroughtn_harv · Jun 7, 2009

GaryM said:
Harv, went to the website and read the chapter titled "the Well" very nice. I hope there's going to be more soon because I want to know if they hit water!

There's going to be water. LOL

I have access to one of the neatest ninety year olds on the planet. I won't have access long, he's on hospice care now. He has a hand dug well on his place that is eighty three feet deep. They figure it was dug in the nineteenth century. He helped clean it out as a teenager.

Anyway, I finally got to spend a couple of hours talking with him about the well digging, he's done about three himself and then he worked on the clean out on the old one. I now have some information on how the well is going to be dug.

The dowser in the story is based loosely on my own father's father. He too was a Pentecostal preacher with the knack for witching water accurately.

I only have good access to the internet on Sundays. I have to catch up on work around the house also on Sundays. I have more stuff written, I just haven't gotten around to posting it.

The photos were taken of the deep well. I tied a hunting head lamp to my long tape measure and dropped it down to the water level.

Imagine being a fifteen year old and going down to clean out debris that had built up when there wasn't a house on the property, seventy five years ago.

EddieWalker · Jun 7, 2009

Hi Harvey,

Those are some great pictures. I've tried digging a hole or two, but never got more than a dozen feet deep. Getting out of the hole just go too complicated for me in those tries, and I don't think I'll ever try it again. I really admire those who could do it and then shore it up so that it lasts for decades.

Eddie