Monthly Archives: March 2012

We recently told my buddy Cary Grayson that we wanted him to put up a steer and feed it out for us to buy from him. He has cattle in Lagrange and me and Goldstraw and Beau decided to split one. It was in september or october when Cary started. The time came a month ago to go get it from the butcher. Goldstraw said , let’s just go to my ranch near there for the weekend and hangout and we can pick the meat up the next day. It was a plan and we were all set up. Me and Tres couldn’t go until later in the day because of Brad’s basketball game. So after that we all headed up. Beau and Brandee were already up there. So we get there and it is cold and windy. The kids played outside and we sat at the table talking and drinking. We had some chicken spaghetti that we heated up that night to eat and basically sat at the table all night us 6 adults sitting at the table talking about old times.  The wives went to bed fairly early and me and Beau and Goldie stayed up until about 2:45 solving life’s problems. About 2:38 we see Brandee come into the living room and say, “do ya’ll know it’s 3 oclock?” I quickly reply with “no Brandee it is only 2:38” needless to say we all went off to bed. I had taken some wine so we all had our fill and no one was in a rush to get up in the morning and get going or stay another night. So we caravaned to Breham to the butcher. They filled our ice chest and we were on our way home. When we left there we stopped by the Casa Ole’ that Cary used to own and ate. At home we split the meat up and I stacked mine in the freezer. I soon decided in the next day or so that we needed to cook one of the big sirloins. The things were huge!!!! One of them all four of us ate on. It took up almost half of my bbq pit. So I cooked it to perfection, we also made some homeade mashed potatoes. It was perfect. We have since made the rib eyes and some T-bones. That Cary Grayson can really grow some beef.

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Well it has been awhile since I posted after the move to my own domain name but I do have everything lined up with pictures to match some new post. I guess I will start off by talking a little about my aunt sissy. She passed away last night and was 85 I believe. She was the last living patriarch of the family. She was My Uncle Lanky’s wife. I knew it was coming but when I heard there was a flood of memories from Christmas and holidays and all the times at their house spending the night growing up. I remember once when Melody (her daughter) had girls over to spend the night and they were telling scary stories in her bedroom. She was older than me and I got scared and went in the kitchen with aunt sissy. I remember her making me feel like we were having a better time than Melody and her friends. It was a great feeling. So anyway, today is a blah, blue, emotional day for me. I guess I am taking this kinda hard because of her being the last one. I dunno. I am just struggling with it today. I have been moving alot of old reel to reel movies on to DVD and alot of old memories have been seen. Aunt sissy was a tremendous lady. She always understood the kids it seemed and was never harsh on us. I am sad today for losing aunt sissy and for feeling like everything from my youth is slowly slipping away.

I don’t wanna get too emotional so I will talk about one of Lounsbury’s buddies name AJ Truax who came down over spring break. He has been friends with louns forever and he was always telling me that I should meet him. Well I finally did. They came over one night and we sat on the porch and hung out and cooked. I made him some homeade sausage and we sat around and cracked on louns. Grisham showed up for a little while too and he jumped on our side. Usually Louns is attacking me or AJ. But we sided with each other and were getting on him about normal stuff. It was to the point of Louns saying ” I don’t know if I like the fact that ya’ll have met”. It was a great time sharing stories growing up, he was a great guy and that makes two people that Louns knows that are good guys, me and AJ LOL!!,. We hooked up again at Border and we had dinner and then I went over Louns the last night he was here. I gave him a Texans shirt to take back to New York and us three had a few beers and visited before he left. I consider him my firend now and not just Louns buddy. Maybe some day we can make the trip to New York and see them up there.

One little sidebar funny is about our friend Rick Holt, he couldn’t come over cause he said his wife was sick and he told us to stop texting him while he was tending to his sick wife. We pictured him like Wyatt Earp with a wet rag while his wife lay in bed and patting her head with the rag. Then when she dozed off he would finally have some time to sit and relax. SOOOOO being the non sarcastic guys we are we sent him a couple pics of us “tending” to our wives.

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Well this is my first post on the new site. Hope it is as easy as the old one cause it took forever to transfer everything. Anyway my buddy Al Vasquez had a birthday recently and we went up to Guidry’s to celebrate. It turned out to be a long fun night of crawfish and drinks. The owner is a guy named Chad Guidry and Al has been hanging out there for a long time. It even goes back to the days during softball when Guidry’s was just a hole in the wall place where you had to bring your own beer and only served crawfish. Now he has a full menu and a neat restaurant with regular seating and a nice little bar area. The crawfish is great as well. Ok, so we meet them up there and get a big round table. It is Al, Sonja, us, our kids, Robert Sanchez and Al’s sister to start off. We get us a few buckets and order the crawfish. Brad eats 5 pounds on his own , plus a boudin link, and an order of boudin balls. Ofcourse sonja is impressed. The conversation is great and Chad starts sending samples of different appetizers. He also starts sending over shots he calls “orange bombs”. I call them roofies because everytime we have them someone gets way too drunk. They taste like sunkist drink shots. So the night progresses and we eat more and more crawfish and have a great celebration. We end up leaving and Al stays a little longer and you can tell by the pic he was having some fun and feeling no pain. We all had a blast and I even mentioned to Tres the next day how great a time we had. We always have such a good time with Al and Sonja. I can’t wait for Garner and to spend the week with them then. ok, lets see if I can post

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