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Cajun friend introduced me to the scoop of tater salad in the bowl of gumbo. Now I won't hardly eat it any other way. When I make gumbo now, I always make a potato salad. Everyone who has ever eaten it at my house first looks at the combo with a sideways glance--then wonders why it was hidden from them for so long.

Not this. But the next few episodes after. And I was 46 at the time.

Great Saban. Now do BoB

Michigan & the under, Bama & the over, Ole Miss and the over

Both staples at my house. If you like peanuts, these are fantastic. Much bigger and crunchier than others I have had.

10-hour round trip drive and taking a day off work to help a rich old field company? They need to hire some help with all them profits.

Was talking to my dad about this yesterday. He is 55 years into being a pumper on a collection of gas wells in south Texas. He actually was out in the field near Sonora two days ago carrying drums of methanol for injection into flowlines in hopes of keeping them from freezing. 73-year -old man rolling 55 gallon drums out of the back of a truck pisses me off but whatever---I am not driving down there to help. Anyway, his claim is something like 70% of natural gas in the state is produced by companies/guys that own just a few small wells (my experience as roustabout makes this believable). These guys maybe clearing only a couple of hundred dollars apiece on these low-MCF wells, and they are struggling meeting new demands. It is not like it is Exxon that can't pay for methanol injection or other anti-freeze procedures--it is Ralph. He also said that the new paperwork requirements are crazy, and lots of small guys are getting out. Anyway, just a take from an old guy that has seen about all of it down there. But he also made sure to tell me before he hung up that the last outage was because all the bullshit, lib windmill blades froze up so there is that too.

Yep. Was a 10-year-old growing up down on the border near Del Rio. Dad and his friend took a hood off some wrecked caliche-colored Chevy pick up, flipped it upside down to make a sleigh. They then ran a rope from the “sleigh” to another pickup. 3 or 4 of us kids would get on the hood sleigh and dad and his friends—I assume now they were drinking heavily—pulled us up and down the icy city streets. They would take a hard turn and sling us out into someone’s yard. Sometimes we would wreck into a tree. The blood provided some warmth. After that week, the hood sleigh was “stored” out by the barn in case it ever iced over like that again. It never did.

So is LASIK at 50 a waste? No correction to my eyesight until 43. Then steady downhill. Hate contacts. Really hate glasses too. But don’t want to pay for LASIK if it is gonna be just a 3-year fix and the back in glasses

I’ve been working more and more in Manchester, and I really like the city and the people. As stated above, London is London but there are many places more English…and more enjoyable to me. Bath, York, Liverpool, and tons of small hamlets. Drop in to any pub outside of London order a pint—conversation will follow

Little add on. Pulled Pork Finishing Sauce 1 cup apple cider vinegar 2 tbs brown sugar 1 tsp Tony’s cajun seasoning 1 tsp course black pepper 1 tsp red pepper flakes Warm vinegar in sauce pan then dissolve the sugar, Then add the remaining ingredients, Put in a squirt bottle, and apply to meat after you pull it, then squirt the sauce on the sandwhich, etc. I also thin my BBQ sauce with it It is amazing and everyone is blown away.

Three chickens, two goats, a quart of clabber, and a left-handed toddler.

Yes, it is.

Tom T. Hall. Beard might turn down hot bologna, eggs and gravy today, but he won't tomorrow.

Not funny ha-ha; more funny like WTF.

Black Friday?

It's bad enough that you took a Sawzall to that poor creature, but the ball-peen hammer, the mini BFH, the screw driver and the duct tape. I have a bad feeling about what may be in your garage. An 87 YJ?

Should be in one of these.

Monkey Wards ftw

Whatever. Gen X, Rod Stewart’s stomach, and Richard Gere’s colon once again prove Millennials continue to overlook historical precedent

Also America’s team.

I like the old, more homely location of Lotus, but the new one is fine and closer to the strip Was there last week and enjoyed a great dinner and excellent service. I felt that Lotus had gotten bad about speeding up the pacing the last few years, but last week it was a bit more leisurely and casual. Nice evening.