Author Archives: Dad

Cacao

K, we were joking around tonight and you were quoting some line from Bluey.

You were also laughing about a scene in Storybots where a frog is telling how chocolate is made.

He keeps talking about “cacao” beans in this deep-voiced monologue, pausing here and there for dramatic effect.

We were laughing about it all and I told you I was going to start calling you “K-ca-cao.”

You said I wouldn’t – because I would not remember!

To which I said:

“That’s it. I am writing about this tonight. And you can read about this exact conversation for the rest of your life!

Boom. Done.

I never could find a video of that frog…

I love you.

-Dad

Little Inflection

I forgot to mention one thing about being gone on my two trips.

Apparently, it was soooo traumatic on you, T, that what I was gone…

You said your first sentence!

Mom said you were asking about me.

Apparently, you were wondering around the house with a little inflection in your voice saying:

My dada? My dada?

I’m so sorry I left you!

You sure smiled big when I called you on the phone.

I love you forever.

I love you.

-Dad

Two Trips

I am going to stop saying how bad I am at keeping up this blog.

I am.

No need to beat a dead horse, but ugggggggggh.

I skip a day – and then it’s five days. And suddenly it’s two weeks.

Anyway, all the work training I have been doing, I took two trips the last couple of weeks.

I went to farmer meetings in San Angelo the first week.

It was a good trip, but I sure did miss you girls. We met with cotton growers in old and dusty dinners and steakhouses. I ate so much steak I thought I might explode before it was over.

Two of my favorite places were the Lowake Steak House (in Rowena, TX) and Mereta Cafe (in Mereta, TX). We stayed at the Home 2 Suites in San Angelo and spent all of our in-between time driving around looking at cotton.

I came home that Thursday, spent Friday and the weekend at home, and then left for Corpus Christi for an entire week.

Honestly, the Corpus trip was a lot like the San Angelo trip, only with fewer grower meetings. About 50% of this trip was driving around and looking at cotton and the other 50% was going over billing and contracts back at the office.

One day we drove up to Kennedy (Kennedy, TX) to look at one of our warehouses there. I got to meet the guys working there, we all went to lunch, and we even got to watch a few trucks load some of the last bales of the season.

During the trip, I stayed at the Hyatt Place (the one we have all stayed at before). There is a Saltgrass Steakhouse in the parking lot of the hotel, and I ate dinner there nearly every night.

I flew home that Friday.

And – well – that was too long to be gone.

I love you.

-Dad