I am From

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I’m from the long drives to my brothers football game

From the steaming turf burning the rubber off your cleats

From the freezing mornings in a blind for three hours

From the deer on the white walls in my house

From a neighborhood where everybody is friends with everybody

From hanging out with friends

From night prayers and grace

From going to the 11:30 Mass every Sunday

From three dogs

From disliking cats and hamsters

From the big oak tree in my backyard

From the Saint Augustine Grass

From the United States of America

From Texas

From Austin

The Frustration of Bird Nesting

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Bird nesting is one of the most annoying things in the world besides my brothers. Bird nesting is when you cast your fishing pole and then you don’t put your finger on the spool before it hits the water and the reel gets all tangled up.

Bird nesting is as annoying as the two dogs across the street having a barking contest at 3:00 in the morning. When you bird nest all the sting comes out then you has to untangle it. Or even worse cut it. Some people like to take the easy way out and then cut their line but that’s not good. It takes away all your line and then if you cut it enough you won’t have any line left.

There is a good side to bird nesting though. Actually, not really. But if you get good enough at acting a bait caster then it casts so far. Some of the pros can even cast 75+ feet.

Halloween Porch

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Trick or treat! The young kids holler. It was Halloween night. The jack o lanterns lit up the dark side walks some with pleasant faces other with scary faces. I walked up to one house that everybody’s been scared of but not me. Ding dong.

Some one came up to the door and I was scared out of my mind. Hello little boy.

It was the nicest lady and she gave me all her candy. Everybody went to her house after that.

Trout of a Lifetime

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Errr…errr…errr. The alarm went off and we got ready. We put on are jackets and jeans and headed out. We went to the fly shop to meet are guides and put on are waiters. We got in their trucks drove through vail village and up a mountain to meet the pond we wood be fishing in. It looked a lot more like a bunch of ponds to me. You could fish every, all rainbow trout of course. Are guides taught us how to cast fly rods and its a lot easier than you think. Ten o’clock two o’clock. Pull out line ten o’clock two o’clock until you get it in the spot you want. I casted into the pond and… BAM a fish hit. It just like that. First fish of the day on one of my first cast. He was about fifteen inches. There where fish hitting everywhere, my dad caught six! It was getting late into the day and I saw the biggest fish in the whole pond. He was 26 inches. For a trout that’s a trophy. He wasn’t blighting at anything and then the guide said try this bait. He put about a millimeter long fly on and then first cast he hit I was reeling him in and then fell into a hole but got up and kept on reeling. He put up a 3 minute fight until I got him in the net. He was a enormous one. Seven pounds. We let him go and then headed home.

LSU Visit

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Last year I went to LSU campus and to one of there football games. We went to are friends house before getting in their PRIVITE JET! We road to the airport and got in the plain. It took about 30 minutes to get from Austin to Baton Rouge. we got in are hotel, explored the campus and headed to the game. We got great seats and then moved down to the third row.  EHHHHHHHHHHH… BOOM. The ball was kicked off and LSU receives it. We watch the games which was loads of fun and then headed back to the hotel. The next day we went to Louis for breakfast which is where my dad asked my mom to marry her and sat at that exact table. I got to see Mike The Tiger and the campus a little more and then we headed home.