Author Archives: Marc Milliorn

Mady has been a 14 year old teenage girl way to much lately. She has finished her volleyball for the year and she is currently debating on playing in high school or not. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS to her for making the high school golf team. She has worked hard these last couple years playing in the summer and going to lessons. She practiced for tryouts for a couple months focusing on hitting and walking the practice holes. But during tryouts all Coach Boyd had the girls do was hit a bucket of balls. It looks like she is the top of the Deer Park high school golfers right now even though she will only be a freshman. The dilemma for me and Tressa right now is how much to push her to play other sports. Personally I would love her to play volleyball and then she would be socially interactive with some girls from other schools. Atleast for her freshman year. I have noticed lately how goofy and funny she acts with her friends and I want that to continue and for her to build relationships with new people. She is debating on volleyball but loves basketball. the only problem there is that would interfere more with golf. She is better at golf than basketball but we cannot push her to pick only one. That she will have to find on her own. I don’t want to say “If you only play golf you will be the best one and on varsity as a freshman” then later down the road she regrets not playing other sports and ends up not liking golf. But whatever she chooses we will support and back her and as long as she is doing something that is all we want. Now on a personal note I am so so so very proud of her. She has worked hard and made it important and right now she is also making summer training program at school important. It will only get her better and make her stronger. I hope she stays with it all summer.

She played in her first 18 hole tournament and got first . She shot a 103. It was awesome to watch her and coach Myers and coach Boyd followed her for a couple holes. She played at Deer Park and beat 4 girls in her age group but if she played in the 15-18 year old group she would have gotten 3rd and there was about 10-15 girls in that group. We are really excited about this summer golf. Tomorrow she plays againest stiffer competition which will be good for her.

Her 8th grade year ended with her getting awards for robotics and for playing all 6 sports in junior high which is called the “super 6” award. I am very proud of her for that too because you have to commit yourself to participating in everything and not just going home after school. She did this while playing golf, club volleyball and making the honor roll. It is bittersweet about her leaving junior high. I love seeing her succeed and moving on and growing up but I will miss her being a baby and needing me. I love her independence and I will love seeing her grow and move on making a life of her own but I will miss her being a baby.

Her tennis season ended up being a fun one to watch. She didn’t take it too serious but she actually competited and I was proud of her effort. I won’t miss not watching tennis but it was good to see her play.

I wanted to talk about her school sports, her activities and finishing junior high in this post then speak about the 8th grade dance and all that fancy stuff in my next post. In a nut shell Mady is my oldest baby and will always be close. She acts like me her mother says and I have watched her play all the sports for years. Soon she will be making grown up decisions about what she wants to play in high school, what activities she wants to be in and what she plans for her life after school. I will be there to help with whatever she wants. I will misss seeing her play the “kiddy” little league stuff and not be able to coach or influence her that much. I could not be more proud of the young woman she is becoming and the way she has matured in her physical and social aspect of her life. It fills me with happiness even if I am grouchy about having to be a taxi cab for stuff or complain about her goofiness. Most of it is an act, just like hers, she too lives in my heart. Thank you Mady for letting me watch all the different things you have done and for all the new things you are fixing to embark on and accomplish. I love you more than anything in this world.

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I have been growing a garden for about 14 years now. It started when we lived at our old house even before the kids were born. I started with a small 10×10 fenced in area. I grew a small amount of cucumbers and tomoatoes and just messed around with different stuff. When we moved to our current house I put in a garden on the right side of our garage. It was fairly small and I had a fence built across from the garage to the big fence to seperate it from the yard. The tomatoes didnt grow very well because there was always too much shade. I had success with eggplant and peppers. So what I did in the last couple years was extend the garden past the garage and all the way down to the back of the fence. It is now a pretty big area. I also built another fence all the way back to the end of the back yard. I tilled up as much as I could last year until the tiller burnt up and planted all my plants. I had some tires that I planted tomatoes in and they worked great. It was messy but very productive with okra, peppers, and tomatoes. The cucumbers did pretty well but they were a little taken up by weeds. The eggplants thrived late in the year as well as a couple pepper plants. I had trouble with the weeds and the mud next to the house. All in all it worked out good though and I also had a good success with my cantaloupe. I had never grown them before and learned alot about keeping them from getting mushy. My okra went crazy and I was able to freeze a bunch of it and the peppers and eggplant. Well this year I tried to fix it all up and make it nice. I made a walkway down the side with crushed granite and steps. I also had a guy come in and clean out all the weeds and grass and put in two yards of dirt. I also moved one of my sections of cyclone fence so the cucumbers could grow up the side. Before I go on I did plant a winter garden for the first time last year as well. I planted, collard greens and lettuce,cabbage and brocolli and cualiflower. The brocolli and cauflower didn’t produce as good but the greens I love. The lettuce was hard because it was hard to keep it from getting mushy but the cabbage did good and I am still pulling off collard green leaves and eating them. Brad loves them as well. Anyway, this year it is better organized. I have nice rows and I even tried to seperate the cantaloupe from the other stuff. I read that it likes shade better so I but it in the front. The stuff I planted in the tires works better so I may start trying to get as many tires as I can. The tomatoes in there now are huge. I also got some tomatoes from Stephen Harrell’s dad. He grows them from seed so that is exciting to have some Livingston grown tomatoes. My peppers don’t look as good right now but I am hoping they will come on strong. I planted a yellow squash that looks great. Ofcourse the okra is going good but like I said the peppers are what bother me. Just not growing as fast as I want. The weeds are coming in alot also I think I want to get a small tiller and till inbetween the rows to help out. I lined the outside with landscape timbers to try and help. I also put in some solar lights , haha, it looks cool but I don’t know how productive it will be.It is very relaxing and frustrating at the same time. I love getting it going but hate the weeds. I do have a great deal of pride when I am able to pull a large bucket full of produce. For example on nights we eat deer meat or fish or sausage and cook up some greens or okra and tomatoes everything we eat is from the garden. Except the cold beer!!!! Well I am looking forward to alot of produce and can’t wait to fill the freezer.

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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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