Kentucky Killers

A short 10 hour drive and your in the small town of Cadiz, Kentucky. Home to my buddy Terry Amis, milk shakes, deer, and turkey. My first deer hunt was awesome. We spent 2 days driving and 3 days in a deer stand. In bed by 12 midnight, up by 3:50am, and in the stand by 4:30 am equals 12 hours of sleep in 3 days...but worth it. We hunted on two different 300 acre farms, but the number of deer seen this year was way down due to the warm weather. I killed my first buck this year and another guy we hunted with got a buck and 3 doe. Plenty of meat to get us through the winter in case barack hussein shuts down supermarkets.
Highlight of the trip was definitely taking care of business on the buck, but four wheelin', spotting 17 wild turkey fly overhead while in a stand at 4:30 in the morning, tracking deer through the woods by one spot of blood, and just hanging with Terry wasn't bad either. Absolute great trip.

L Date = "Lager Tasting"

For the "L" date I took Meggy to a part of town not often visited by the Weavers. North side via Busch Drive. The reason....some Lager Tasting courtesy of the Budweiser Brewery.I've been wanting to go there for a long time and after doing a little research I found they offer free tours every 45 minutes, 363 days of the year. We took the 3:00 pm shift and squeezed in right before a tour bus filled with sixty old goats and gals started pouring into the brewery. The tour was very informative.

We learned all about early beer history, the four generations of Adolphus Busches, prohibition, and my favorite...malt syrup. It was delivered door to door during prohibition as a "syrup". However, the form in which it was bottled allowed it to be easily made into beer by commoners everywhere. We were able to see the large containers where the beer was made. Each container brews 66,000 6 packs per day. We saw the assembly line where the beer was bottled, and also learned that brewmasters taste the beer each hour to ensure its consistency. Not a bad job. At the end of the tour each person was given two glasses of beer in the Budweiser lounge.There were classics like Budweiser, Bud Light, Bud Lime, and some others like Shock Top, Pumpkin Ale, Wild Blue, Amber Bock, Select 55, and Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry (not highly recommended). The beer was fresh and delicious. My favorite being the Amberbock and Meghan's the Shock Top. The tour was well worth it and we highly recommend it. If you pull the right strings you may even get a paper hat.

3 Quarters of a Century

The Douglas clan gathered to celebrate the birth of our patriarch, G. Bruce Douglas. GBD spawned 5 handsome children over the years. While some of them made the drive from as far away as Mandarin, Fl, it was Bruce (the eldest) who traveled the farthest for the festivities. He and Merri made the trek from Georgia to wish Poppa Bruce a Happy 75th and to sample some world famous cake from The French Pantry.

Above: G. Bruce is pictured with his young.

While all grandchildren and great grandchildren could not be in attendance, we certainly had enough people to field a game of Bocce Ball around the premises. When played by the adults, this yard game usually results in some broken landscaping lights, trampled bushes, and a cracked paver or two, but in honor of the big 7-5, we let the younger children play a safer version in the grass.

It was a beautiful day for a birthday bash. The sun was shining and the Blue Angels were roaring overhead. Many conversations were lost in the reverberations of the Air Show that took place over GBD's patio. The Olive Garden spread was choice and the cake was sinful. It isn't often that the siblings are all united in one place, but there was no better time to come together than on Dad's birthday, to share some food and fellowship with those who matter most. Happy 75th Dad! We love you!