Oral History Interview with Floyd R. Thomas, February 18, 2009 Page: 51
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them. I'll go and talk to her." He went up and talked to her so we all sat down, went in the
house, sat down. And I was sitting there and she had 2 dogs and 4 cats or 2 cats and 2 dogs.
And one of these dogs you looked at and you couldn't tell which way he was going. He looked
the same on each end. Well every time I would turn to walk, that damn dog, I thought the tail
end of him bit me but I thought it was funny and big me in the back of the leg or the heel.
Anyway, we got better acquainted and I become a little bit tamer in their eyes, so I got to go
out with her and I haven't turned her loose for the last 60 years. Our 60th Anniversary is March
the 1st. She's kept track of me for 60 years now. Her mother finally decided I was halfway safe
to be around. So anyway I started to work there then with my dad in the timber business. And
I don't know, it lasted about a year after we married, something like that and he moved the
sawmill, his mill business, he sold it and I kept one of the sawmills and worked it while I was
going to school in Auburn. And during the winter when we couldn't work the mill, I was snow
plowing, had a D6 cat my daddy left me but didn't have an angle-tipped blade on it. it had a
straight blade so what I'd do is I'd go to school in Auburn, California at the college there, pick up
a couple classes and I'd go to school and come back home about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. My
wife would be standing out in front holding my supper and my work clothes and I'd grab them
real quick and head out, went to the dozer and got on the dozer and the county gave me a job
dozing these snow roads off on them back hills. I didn't have lights on that thing so I hung 2
flashlights out on top of the blades and I'd work all night, most of the night, doing that maybe
until 12, 1, 2 o'clock and then I would back the dozer up, park it and head on back to my 4-
wheel drive Jeep. I'd get home and have about 2 or 3 hours sleep and then I'd go back to
school. Well that went along for a couple of years I guess, at least two years, and then I got a51
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Misenhimer, Richard & Thomas, Floyd R. Oral History Interview with Floyd R. Thomas, February 18, 2009, text, February 18, 2009; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193889/m1/51/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.