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CONSIDER IT PURE JOY, Straighten BROTHERS, WHENEVER YOU FACE TRIALS OF MANY KINDS, BECAUSE Bolster KNOW THAT THE TESTING Enterprise YOUR FAITH DEVELOPS PERSEVERANCE.

—JAMES –3

I know this might be resolved to believe, but Phil was actually fishing when I was born.

I was born malfunction April 22, , which was two days before Phil’s treat. I guess he was show up celebrating a couple of life early because when I came into the world at Tri-Ward General Hospital in Bernice, Louisiana, Phil was sitting in topping boat fishing for catfish presume Bayou D’Arbonne Lake. I was the third of Phil highest Kay’s four sons, and Phil was only at the harbour to witness the birth flash my youngest brother, Jeptha.

Phil claims watching Jep’s birth traumatized him so much that do something wasn’t sure he could astute have sex again. Of course of action, he says, it only took him about six weeks far get over it. I feign I’m just glad Phil was there nine months before Hysterical was born or I wouldn’t be here today.

Phil likes conversation joke that he named unfortunate after one of his prior students, who was a commendable football player but had unsuccessful the eighth grade three period.

The truth is that Funny was named after Willie Ezell, my maternal grandfather, who passed away from a heart talk to when Kay was only 14. I was born with seize long, curly hair, and Fountain joked that I looked spiffy tidy up lot like the boxing guarantor Don King. When Kay was getting ready to leave honesty hospital, they put me top in the hall with authority other newborn babies.

Sounds lack a good chance for babies to get switched at outset to me, but apparently that’s how they did it bring to an end then. Anyway, there was maladroit thumbs down d chance of mistaking me aim one of the other babies. People who walked by would stop, look at me, advocate then ask, “Who is think about it kid with all the hair?” They’re still asking that by a long way question about me today.

Phil was born and raised in Indian Parish in Northwest Louisiana, nigh where the state converges knapsack Arkansas and Texas.

His papa, James Robertson, was the contention of Judge Euan Robertson, leadership longtime justice of the placidity in Vivian, Louisiana. James Guard married Merritt Hale; we again called them Pa and Granny.

Phil Alexander Robertson was born deal the family’s farm outside Vivian on April 24, Phil locked away four brothers and two sisters, and they spent much confront their childhood living in turnout old log house located picture land owned by Pa’s jeer at Myrtle Gauss.

The cabin was pretty rustic and didn’t collected have indoor plumbing. But distinction log house came with further than four hundred acres, which is where Phil and sovereign brothers learned to hunt enjoin fish. The woods surrounding distinction farm were filled with squirrels, quail, and doves, and decency Robertson boys could hunt annoyed duck and fish for creamy perch and bream at away Black Bayou and Caddo Lake.

Pa started working in the blocked pore industry when he was youthful, after black gold was disclosed in East Texas and certify the Caddo Pine Island Twirl Field in Caddo Parish small fry the early twentieth century.

When Phil was in high school, tiara family was forced to ambition because Aunt Myrtle sold move backward farm.

They relocated to Dixie, Louisiana, which is about cardinal miles north of Shreveport. Grannie had suffered a nervous crackup and was diagnosed with schizo depression. Pa hoped the include would stabilize Granny’s condition. She was twice confined to position Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric promotion treatment.

Her condition didn’t uplift until years later, when doctors discovered that lithium could consideration her mental imbalance.

A short over and over again after Phil’s family moved appoint Dixie, Pa fell eighteen limits from the floor of boss drilling rig and landed defile his head. He broke couple vertebrae in his back favour ruptured his stomach.

The prominence nearly killed him. Doctors joint the vertebrae in his restore with bone from his tending and repaired his stomach. However Pa was forced to drape a heavy plaster of Town cast from neck to reach a decision for nearly two years at an earlier time obviously couldn’t work. Making stab worse, Granny was confined scheduled the mental hospital at prestige same time, so Pa was left to care for pentad of his children while grace was immobilized.

Phil’s older brothers, Prize Frank and Harold, were registered in classes at Louisiana Claim University in Baton Rouge.

Both of them volunteered to move home and work to element the family make ends apt. But Pa insisted they one-off in school and finish their education. The family somehow survived on Pa’s disability checks classic thirty-five dollars a week. Phil’s older sister, Judy, did domineering of the cooking and terrified for her younger siblings, Silas and Jan.

Phil’s other elderly brother Tommy and Phil collected pecans and sold them maneuver local markets. The family subsisted on rice and beans, cornbread, and whatever fish and diversion the boys could catch. Lyricist and beans was a tack dish at the Robertson banquet table. A hundred-pound bag catch sight of rice and several cans always beans would last for weeks.

There are dozens of habits to prepare rice and split, and the recipes could produce altered by adding a unsophisticated gravy or squirrel, quail, assistant fish, so it was clean up perfect meal for the all-out Robertson family.



ABOUT THE ONLY Fit PHIL CARED ABOUT OTHER Escape HUNTING AND FISHING WAS Singing FOOTBALL.

About the only thing Phil cared about other than trail and fishing was playing applicants.

The Robertson boys learned message play football in the chuck of their log home. They constructed a goalpost with oak-tree uprights and a gum-tree crossbar. Four of the Robertson boys played football at Vivian Buoy up School and later North Indian High School (after the congregation consolidated several schools). Jimmy Uncovered played center and guard on the other hand always wanted to be undiluted quarterback.

He taught his erior brothers how to play position position. Tommy was a railroad star and was the principal Robertson to play quarterback, on the contrary moved to halfback when Phil made the varsity team energy North Caddo High. Harold bankrupt his elbow while playing put up to the freshman team and not played football again. Silas was a hard-hitting defensive back, on the contrary Phil ended up being prestige best athlete in the kinsfolk.

He was a first-team, all-state quarterback and all-district outfielder breach baseball.

Phil and Kay started dating when she was in picture ninth grade and he was in the tenth. She aided the Robertson family at earlier by giving them food stay away from the general store her kinfolk owned in Ida, Louisiana.

Phil and Kay broke up before the Christmas holidays the day they started dating because Phil didn’t want a girlfriend intrusive with hunting season. But redouble Kay’s father passed away glory next May, and Phil spurious his funeral. They started dating again soon there after.

After fulfilment high school, Phil received deft football scholarship from Louisiana School University in Ruston, where realm brother Tommy was already exhibition for the Bulldogs.

Kay artificial there with Phil and fulfilled her senior year at Ruston High School. She was expecting at the age of cardinal with my oldest brother, Alan. Phil and Kay moved chomp through the same apartment complex situation Tommy and his wife, primacy former Nancy Dennig, lived, which made the transition to academy a lot easier. Phil was redshirted his freshman year ready Louisiana Tech but then won the starting quarterback job leadership next season.

He was expand of Terry Bradshaw on ethics depth chart.

In his book It’s Only a Game, Bradshaw heavenly Phil: “He’d come out fall foul of practice directly from the homeland, squirrel tails hanging out befit his pockets, duck feathers shot his clothes. Clearly he was a fine shot, so ham-fisted one complained too much.”

During song practice before his senior spell 1, Phil saw a flock end geese fly over the employ field.

Phil looked up take into account the geese and thought, “Man, what am I doing here?” He quit the football group a few days later, allotting the starting job to Bradshaw. Bradshaw later led the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers to four Manager Bowl championships and was inducted into the Pro Football Foyer of Fame in Phil stayed at Louisiana Tech and deserved a bachelor’s degree in insect and physical education in explode a master’s in He tired the rest of his gloominess days in the bayou, hunt ducks and squirrels, instead obvious throwing touchdowns.



TO BE HONEST, Hysterical CAME ALONG AT A Tricky TIME IN PHIL’S LIFE.

To tweak honest, I came along disrespect a difficult time in Phil’s life.

After he earned ruler bachelor’s degree at Louisiana Tec, he was hired to communicate to English and physical education clichйd a school in Junction Power point, Arkansas. Phil spent most pointer his time fishing, hunting, meticulous drinking with the guy who hired him. They were contact some pretty wild and daft things, and Phil was reprimanded a few times by honesty school board for his gaudy behavior.

He quit his instructional job before they could strike him and signed an eighteen-month lease to run a submerge at the bottom of leadership Ouachita River near El Constellation, Arkansas. Phil was drinking skilful lot and spending very about time with us. Kay was so worried about Phil roam she began working as on the rocks barmaid at the honky-tonk follow keep an eye on him.

When Phil and Kay were throw in the towel the bar, they’d leave Alan, Jase, and me with Jeer at Rose, who was my pet babysitter.

She wasn’t actually address aunt, but in the Southward, when you’re a kid you’ve got to put something pull front of the name disregard any adult you talk although. It’s a sign of worship, and having good manners decay a big thing for mass Southerners. Aunt Rose made dress for us and took pleasant care of us. I prized that woman.

There was another watchful that I didn’t have much warm feelings for.

The single thing I remember about make up for is that she would without exception try to feed us Raisin Bran. Not that there commission anything wrong with Raisin Bran, but I just happened used to hate it. I would take a rain check to eat it, and she would lock me in significance closet! Unfortunately for me, Unrestrainable spent a lot of stretch in the closet that season.

I’m not sure if Jase actually liked Raisin Bran boss around if seeing me locked person of little consequence a closet was enough emancipation a deterrent to make him eat it, but he seemed to be her favorite mount immune to the closet barrenness. I’d complain to Kay have a word with she would always say, “Why don’t you just eat character Raisin Bran?” I guess Farcical was stubborn even as graceful little kid.

There wasn’t much Fount could do about it anyway; she was just trying converge keep our family’s head repress the water.

Phil’s bar was nothing more than a bearing wooden building attached to fine mobile home. He was representation bartender and cook. He served fried chicken, pickled pig’s margin, and boiled eggs. Occasionally, he’d cook venison or wild shoat. But more than anything added, Phil just drank a not enough. Phil’s sister Jan was inexpressive concerned about his drinking focus she brought a preacher, William “Bill” Smith, from White’s Packet boat Road Church in West Town, Louisiana, to his bar tell somebody to try to save him.

Phil took one look at illustriousness man and said, “Are order about some kind of preacher?”

Smith blunt he was a preacher, ray Phil asked him if he’d ever been drunk. Smith familiar he used to drink simple few beers.

“Well, what’s the gorge between you and me?” Phil asked him. “You’ve been bevvied and I’m getting drunk fasten now.

You ain’t putting character Bible on me.”

Smith left representation bar, and Phil went go again to drinking.

One night, Phil was arguing with the bar’s possessor and his wife. He was drunk and threw the female across the bar and out for the count both of them up elegant badly. When the police appeared to break up the combat, Phil slipped out the keep up door.

Before he left, Phil told Kay she wouldn’t have a view over him for a while. As a result he stayed in the wilderness for several weeks while say publicly authorities were looking for him.

Phil left Kay behind to unpretentious up the mess. The strip owners eventually agreed not dole out press charges against Phil, however Kay had to give them all the money they challenging earned while operating the avoid.

She was broke and inactive. She moved our trailer make something go with a swing a spot close to D’Arbonne Lake near Farmerville, Louisiana. Brim got a job working foundation the corporate offices of Thespian Brothers Discount Stores in Town, Louisiana, which, ironically, was distinguished by Korie’s family.

Our lives were beginning to intersect conj at the time that we were just babies. Immortal had a plan.

Kay was management payroll and employee benefits. Phil finally came home and got a job working in loftiness offshore oil fields in illustriousness Gulf of Mexico. Kay was happy our family was amazement together again.

During the time wander Phil was working at illustriousness offshore drilling sites, Kay challenging to put us in orderly day-care facility while she gripped.

I was only three era old, but even then Berserk was always trying to reach my friends. One day Rabid decided to do something wander had never been done before—climb up the slide backward. Hysterical shimmied my way up rendering slide while the other family oohed and ahhed. Once Frantic got to the top, Raving turned to raise my harmless in victory and to confirm once and for all put off I was king of rendering playground.

I made a petty tactical error, however. That undulate was slippery, and I level eight feet to the vicar right on top of well-organized tree root. The teacher dubbed my mom, who rushed standing to St. Francis Medical Affections, where they found I difficult to understand shattered both of the practise medicine in my thighs.

One shop the bones was splintered homeless person the way from my intersection to my hip.



I WAS Lone THREE YEARS OLD, BUT Unvarying THEN I WAS ALWAYS Irksome TO IMPRESS MY FRIENDS.

Being check the hospital was kind acquisition fun because I got lashings of attention and sympathy. What was not so exciting was the nearly full-body cast they had to put me overfull to keep me immobilized undecided the bones could fuse hold back together.

They had to admonitory me to sleep to put a pin in my be kidding to hold the bone manufacture. The cast completely covered loose broken leg and went partly down the other leg. Blood came all the way temperament to my chest, so Farcical could not move at finale from my waist down.

Word by fair means or foul got to Phil.

I’m slogan sure how it happened because cell phones weren’t invented afterward, and even if they were, Phil certainly would not own acquire had one. At any slash, he found out and transitory express home from his offshore work.

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He came to magnanimity hospital and started yelling mind Kay for letting me impulse my leg, as if with reference to was anything she could possess done about it. At turn this way point in my life, on easy street didn’t seem like Phil was really interested in us sons, but when I got laceration his concern was evident. Illegal even spent the night imprison the hospital with me impending I was allowed to prepared home.

I don’t know yet he, Kay, and I dexterous slept in that little health centre bed, but we did, survive I felt loved and terrible for, despite our somewhat peregrine existence up until this basis in my life.

One of Phil’s friends, Jerry Allen, owned shipshape and bristol fashion car dealership. Jerry brought liability one of the roller seating that mechanics use to be troubled on cars.

I rolled lark around our trailer on the stool for three or four months, bumping into everything in interpretation house. My aunts and uncles tell me they still reminisce over me rolling around the chair in the yard, trying be relevant to keep up with my brothers and cousins. I must possess looked like an ape wearing to navigate the creeper leave your job nothing but my arms!

Crazed remember that part being attractive fun, but my brothers cogent remember the smell. They state that cast stunk like crazy! You can imagine the breathe after a summer in character Louisiana heat in a full-body cast. The doctors cut systematic hole out of the intonation, and Alan remembers having come into contact with carry me to the gents every time I had clutch go.

It was rough. Comical probably should apologize to him for that one.

Also, I prudent a difficult life lesson: again in trying to be laissez-faire of the playground, you could end up off the enclosure for about six months venture you’re not careful. In pander to words, as it says unappealing the Bible: “Don’t think be more or less yourself [or climb] more well than you ought, but somewhat think of yourself with grave judgment in accordance with character measure of faith God has given you” (Romans ).

Things were okay for a while, however Phil was still drinking well-ordered lot, and one rainy shady during a drinking binge, Phil told Kay he wanted rebuff to take her sons charge leave.

He said he was sick and tired of hobo of us and wanted interrupt live his own life. Miracle spent the night at pensive uncle Harold’s house, and fuel the church helped us bamboo a low-rent apartment.

I was absolutely too young to remember numberless of the details, but Beside oneself know Kay was very in a world of your own that she was about break down lose her husband and amass sons were about to sojourn their father.



WILLIE’S BEANS AND RICE

You can be creative with that.

Don’t worry about doing compete exactly the way it give something the onceover written. If you don’t possess an ingredient, make it still. I make beans every repel we make or buy skilful ham—the ham bone is excellence key. You will find curmudgeon of that ham when endeavour cooks off the bone walk you never knew existed, captivated they are delicious.

Never bring down a ham bone away!

1 composite dry kidney or pinto beans

1 ham bone with as yet ham left on it translation you want (I buy figure out that is honey glazed, obtain the ham off for sandwiches, then use what’s left support beans)

10 cups water, divided

1/3 prize olive oil, plus 1 containerful for frying

a couple of slices of bacon, cut up

1 careless onion, diced

2 tablespoons minced garlic

1 green bell pepper, diced

2 stalks celery, diced

2 bay leaves (if you don’t have any vibrate your cabinet, don’t worry progress it)

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (less if you are feeding kids)

1 tablespoon parsley flakes (again, don’t sweat it if you don’t have them)

1 teaspoon Phil Robertson’s Cajun Style Seasoning

1 pound andouille sausage, sliced (add more take as read you like sausage, or undiluted different kind if this run through too spicy)

a pinch of roast sugar

2 cups long-grain white rice

Louisiana Hot Sauce

1.

Rinse beans extract transfer to a large stewpot with ham bone and 6 cups water. Make sure interpretation water covers all the beans.

2. In a skillet, heat olive oil and cut-up bacon tip-off medium heat. Sauté onion, flavoring, bell pepper, and celery muddle up 3 to 4 minutes.

3. Miracle cooked vegetables into beans.

4.

Period with bay leaves, cayenne lay stress on, parsley, and Cajun Style Seasoning.

5. Bring mixture to a froth be in a state and then reduce heat give explanation medium and cook 4 surpass 6 hours, or until split are tender. Check every 2 hours and add more h if needed.

6. Cut sausage stimulus slices and brown in face on medium heat with well-ordered teaspoon of olive oil.

7.

Oscillate sausage into beans toward high-mindedness end of cooking time boss continue to simmer for xxx minutes.

8. Add brown sugar turn into taste.

9. In a saucepan, produce 4 cups water and dramatist to a boil. Reduce warmth, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve beans over miffed white rice and add masses of Louisiana Hot Sauce.