I can easily argue that Christmas Vacation is the best written movie of all time. So, so many good lines from that movie are used on a regular basis. Even when it isn’t the Christmas season. I used one just this evening. The Dragon Lady told me that Taylor Parrish
I hadn’t burned any horns since July. This Sunday, I loaded up the box and the burners and went to help a family with their goat projects. The smell of burning horns is a smell that I just can’t get used to. I wish that somebody could raise a bad
Before Christmas break, Mrs. Abbey and I completed a semester that involved teaching a class of 30+ 8th graders. Very few farm kids but a great group of kids. Their semester test was a team event. We split them up into teams of 5 and each team member had to
It doesn’t matter what you are doing, there is always somebody coming along that will be better. It is amazing to me how some people have stayed relevant (towards the top of a given species of livestock shows) for 10 to 20 years. Breeders, ag teachers, jocks, show families, etc.
Second post n the same day. You bet. If you think this is some drivel about a proud Dad moment, then you would be wrong. You don’t understand the hurdle that I just crossed. Tammy cooked chicken fried steaks, mashed taters and corn. Wicked, wicked good eating! But, she also
I do like to eat. Especially at places that I don’t get to go to very often. We hit our annual stops at several restaurants in the Phoenix area. La Piñata–consistently very good Mexican food. My Mothers–turkey pot pie, fresh bread, way full when done. Pappadeaux’s–I think all of the
The goat show at Phoenix was good, really good. The top 3 or 4 in about every class were excellent goats. I had never seen this judge line up a show but I would like to show to him again. Consistent. When he got to class 9, that was the
As I start to type this, I realize that I have a typo in the title. People, that key was stuck. A week of inactivity combined with honey will do this to a mac keyboard. Anyways, we have made it back to paradise from Phoenix. Excellent trip, wicked drive home.
The food and snacks has been really good the past few days. Too good. I’m pretty sure that I am fatter. I promise you that I have does fatter than I normally do. And they are a bunch of welfare acting morons. They constantly have a round bale of cover
Saturday was the Dragon Lady’s birthday. She went to OKC to do some shopping and pick Kela up at the airport. She was supposed to land at 2:30 pm. But plans changed. American Airlines had overbooked and Kela got bumped. The next flight was to land at OKC after midnight
