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HAVE WILD PORK? MAKE CANADIAN BACON

Peameal Canadian bacon might just be the tastiest breakfast meat you have eaten and, it’s easy to make.

HAVE WILD PORK? MAKE CANADIAN BACON

I’m always on the outlook for anything ‘new’ to make my outdoor lifestyle more fun and enjoyable and through this column, I have the opportunity to pass along these tidbits of information. Such is the case this week. Have you even heard of ‘peameal bacon’? I’m betting many of you have not. A good friend posed the same question to me a few weeks ago and my answer was something like “What’s peas got to do with bacon”? Let me explain!

Would You EAT a BUG on a Dare? How about paying to eat a Bug?

Would You EAT a BUG on a Dare?

O. K.—I have to level with you. I am asking about MUDBUGS, and that is not the “real” name of these creatures that are “crustaceans” of the “crayfish phylum” of the group, cambaridae. If you call them “crawdads” or “crawfish” and not “crayfish,” you are probably from the Mid-Atlantic or Gulf Coast states.

William E. Young

By Misty Holler

William E. Young

William E. Young

William E. Young was a high school senior when he became a Marine. Bill enlisted around Easter of his senior year but was able to complete the year and officially start basic training in San Diego the following June. From June of 1965 to July of 1971, Bill proudly served his country as a part of the United States Marine Corps, spending time in numerous states as well as Japan and Chu Lai, Vietnam.

Give me a “bullhorn” and a “baseball bat”…
Give me a “bullhorn” and a “baseball bat”…
Give me a “bullhorn” and a “baseball bat”…
Give me a “bullhorn” and a “baseball bat”…
Give me a “bullhorn” and a “baseball bat”…

Give me a “bullhorn” and a “baseball bat”…

If you did not “go to the movies” in 1989 or 1990 to take in the very popular movie, LEAN ON ME, surely you later rented it from “Blockbuster Video” in Mesquite or “Video Express” in Forney, or even later watched in on “Pay Per View” on your own big boxy almost square RCA television set in the living room, or even later tuned it in on Netflix or Hulu or AT&T On-Demand on your giant flat-screen television in your personal “media room.”

HOLIDAY PORK

Wild pork BBQ is always welcome but especially so around the Holidays.

HOLIDAY PORK

The tradition of having wild game on the table for the Holidays is a long standing one with my family. When I was a youngster, I can remember my Mom requesting my older brother to, “Take your shotgun down to Pecan Bayou and bring me back four fat mallards. It’s time for some Christmas baked duck, rice and gravy.” She would slow-roast those mallards with plenty of fresh garlic, salt and pepper. There was always a pot of rice awaiting the natural duck gravy. Mother demanded the ducks be ‘picked’ rather than the popular method today of removing only the breast halves. The fat on a wild duck is where the flavor is, she would say and she was right.

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Old seed planter

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Mike Adams

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Andy Boles

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

David Costello

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Melvin Tucker

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Don Themer

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Pat Adams

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

George Hughes

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Billy Costello

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Weighing cotton bale, 1940s

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Cotton seeds after ginning

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Cotton bale hook

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Woman pulling a partially filled bag to the wagon

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

Season’s first.bale cotton,1959

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…

After our water break, the “old lady” with even more cotton in her bag stopped to ask how I was doing with the cotton. I replied that I didn’t seem to be making much progress, so she looked into my bag and laughed and leaned closer and said, “Boy, you ain’t ‘pullin’ cotton; you’re ‘pickin’ it! Look into my bag!” I did and saw that her cotton had “hulls” from the bolls still attached to the cotton. My bag had pure, smooth cotton with no “hulls.” She then said, “Boy, we’re being paid by the pound, and you ain’t gonna have much pounds the way you’re doin’ it!” She gave a little chuckle and muttered “picking, oh my” and trudged on back to her area of the field. I went to mine and started “pulling” instead of “picking.” I did not ask the others of our crew how they were doing it for fear that they were doing it right and would laugh at me.

“A Summer Song”—1964; “Yesterday’s Gone”—1963; And, unfortunately, so is CHAD STUART!
“A Summer Song”—1964; “Yesterday’s Gone”—1963; And, unfortunately, so is CHAD STUART!
“A Summer Song”—1964; “Yesterday’s Gone”—1963; And, unfortunately, so is CHAD STUART!
“A Summer Song”—1964; “Yesterday’s Gone”—1963; And, unfortunately, so is CHAD STUART!

“A Summer Song”—1964; “Yesterday’s Gone”—1963; And, unfortunately, so is CHAD STUART!

Although I liked the “Rolling Stones” and the “Kinks,” my taste in music in the 1960s leaned a little more to the “mellow” side—Peter, Paul, and Mary—Simon and Garfunkel—Everly Brothers—Herman’s Hermits. I especially liked a British duo that never reached high fame but did have some large and popular hits here in the States—CHAD & JEREMY, who wrote and sang love songs and songs that tended to be melancholic, nostalgic, and maybe “maudlin,” as my favorite college English Professor (Dr. Barrus) liked to say!

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