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Archive of posts filed under the Growing up category.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’

Thanks to Trucker Alex, I began thinking about something I pondered while at The University of West Alabama.  Two of my jobs I had during those three years were at truck stops…the first at the AL-MS state line in York, AL and the second no longer in business in Livingston called Noble Truck Stop.  They [...]

Keep on burping, Big Fatty!

Whether it be from eating beans and peas and collards or rather from drinking your favorite beverage, burps are a sound of pressure releasing from the stomach.  This audible sound is looked at differently in various cultures.  I have always been told that in some cultures, the sound of a burp is kinda like a [...]

Good morning, Farmer Travis!

What we are doing now should prove to anyone that living inside city limits does not mean you cannot have a vegetable garden.  The other half found a site a while back that told of a way to grow vegetables in a planter box.  I do love a little gardening every now and then.  It’s [...]

Music is a journey through life

My taste in music couldn’t be any more vast than it has been most of my life.  I will always love rock & pop since it is what I first began listening to.  I can remember listening to the stations out of Mobile and Pensacola with my sister and my cousins.  Remember the song “Take [...]

His name shall be “BEAR”!

We have officially named the new pup.  His name is Bear.  It’s kinda symbolic in a way.  My grandparents had a dog while I was growing up that my dad and his brother called Bear.  It was the same kind of dog except for the blue heeler part.  I sometimes wondered why they didn’t call [...]

The smell of pecan pies cooking….

The partner is in the process of baking southern pecan pies. It is the most wonderful tasting thing in dessert-dom.

GCB0009 – Wes Comes Out Part 2

Here is the second part to my coming out story.

GCB0008 – Wes Comes Out Part 1

I had been told in the recent past that I should tell my coming out story.

You gotta love southern football!

It is now a couple of weeks into the football season. It felt like such a long time to wait for, but now we have our tailgating, our beer drinking buddies, and whatever revelry comes with football. I’ve been able to watch a few games while at work. Saturday’s game between LSU and UGA was [...]

New direction…same person

Recently, I was stitting around, contemplating my blog here at The Gay Life of a Country Boy and its accompanying podcast. I guess this is my moment to do some clearing up. And some of the clearing up could be called appologies.