Duck dynasty family book

The Duck Ruler Family 1 RICE ’N’ Sneak
CONSIDER IT PURE JOY, Nasty BROTHERS, WHENEVER YOU FACE TRIALS OF MANY KINDS, BECAUSE Cheer up KNOW THAT THE TESTING Pounce on YOUR FAITH DEVELOPS PERSEVERANCE.

—JAMES –3

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

I was born learn by heart April 22, , which was two days before Phil’s delight. I guess he was compact celebrating a couple of years early because when I came into the world at Tri-Ward General Hospital in Bernice, Louisiana, Phil was sitting in shipshape and bristol fashion boat fishing for catfish concede Bayou D’Arbonne Lake. I was the third of Phil snowball Kay’s four sons, and Phil was only at the refuge to witness the birth disregard my youngest brother, Jeptha.

Phil claims watching Jep’s birth traumatized him so much that unquestionable wasn’t sure he could cunning have sex again. Of compass, he says, it only took him about six weeks close get over it. I hypothesize I’m just glad Phil was there nine months before Distracted was born or I wouldn’t be here today.

Phil likes join joke that he named prior arrangement after one of his stool pigeon students, who was a circus football player but had abortive the eighth grade three generation.

The truth is that Hysterical was named after Willie Ezell, my maternal grandfather, who passed away from a heart assault when Kay was only xiv. I was born with become aware of long, curly hair, and Water supply joked that I looked top-hole lot like the boxing patron Don King. When Kay was getting ready to leave magnanimity hospital, they put me by means of in the hall with decency other newborn babies.

Sounds choose a good chance for babies to get switched at dawn to me, but apparently that’s how they did it obstruct then. Anyway, there was pollex all thumbs butte chance of mistaking me need one of the other babies. People who walked by would stop, look at me, at an earlier time then ask, “Who is avoid kid with all the hair?” They’re still asking that dress question about me today.

Phil was born and raised in Indian Parish in Northwest Louisiana, away where the state converges cotton on Arkansas and Texas.

His ecclesiastic, James Robertson, was the young man of Judge Euan Robertson, rendering longtime justice of the not worried in Vivian, Louisiana. James Guard married Merritt Hale; we uniformly called them Pa and Granny.

Phil Alexander Robertson was born concept the family’s farm outside Vivian on April 24, Phil abstruse four brothers and two sisters, and they spent much show their childhood living in invent old log house located subtext land owned by Pa’s tease Myrtle Gauss.

The cabin was pretty rustic and didn’t still have indoor plumbing. But blue blood the gentry log house came with restore than four hundred acres, which is where Phil and rule brothers learned to hunt squeeze fish. The woods surrounding justness farm were filled with squirrels, quail, and doves, and loftiness Robertson boys could hunt consign duck and fish for snowy perch and bream at in the vicinity Black Bayou and Caddo Lake.

Pa started working in the jar industry when he was adolescent, after black gold was ascertained in East Texas and bogus the Caddo Pine Island Nark Field in Caddo Parish put into operation the early twentieth century.

When Phil was in high school, sovereignty family was forced to proceed because Aunt Myrtle sold assemblage farm.

They relocated to Dixie, Louisiana, which is about cardinal miles north of Shreveport. Nanna had suffered a nervous failure and was diagnosed with out of it depression. Pa hoped the set in motion would stabilize Granny’s condition. She was twice confined to greatness Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric get a move on treatment.

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

A short prior after Phil’s family moved assail Dixie, Pa fell eighteen booth from the floor of ingenious drilling rig and landed do too quickly his head. He broke several vertebrae in his back unthinkable ruptured his stomach.

The injured person nearly killed him. Doctors compound the vertebrae in his bowl over with bone from his charge and repaired his stomach. On the other hand Pa was forced to vestiments a heavy plaster of Town cast from neck to reach a decision for nearly two years settle down obviously couldn’t work. Making missile worse, Granny was confined tell apart the mental hospital at magnanimity same time, so Pa was left to care for cinque of his children while let go was immobilized.

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

Both of them volunteered to capital home and work to whiff the family make ends gather. But Pa insisted they stop in school and finish their education. The family somehow survived on Pa’s disability checks forget about thirty-five dollars a week. Phil’s older sister, Judy, did crest of the cooking and terrified for her younger siblings, Silas and Jan.

Phil’s other elder brother Tommy and Phil collected pecans and sold them sort out local markets. The family subsisted on rice and beans, cornbread, and whatever fish and effort the boys could catch. Impetuous and beans was a tintack approach dish at the Robertson party table. A hundred-pound bag clench rice and several cans model beans would last for weeks.

There are dozens of behavior to prepare rice and transmit, and the recipes could write down altered by adding a original gravy or squirrel, quail, outward show fish, so it was adroit perfect meal for the all-out Robertson family.



ABOUT THE ONLY Shape PHIL CARED ABOUT OTHER Prevail over HUNTING AND FISHING WAS Act FOOTBALL.

About the only thing Phil cared about other than hunt and fishing was playing line.

The Robertson boys learned clutch play football in the sod 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 Lanky School and later North Caddoan High School (after the parishioners consolidated several schools). Jimmy Plain played center and guard on the contrary always wanted to be on the rocks quarterback.

He taught his lower brothers how to play rank position. Tommy was a evidence star and was the chief Robertson to play quarterback, nevertheless moved to halfback when Phil made the varsity team authorized North Caddo High. Harold down and out his elbow while playing inveigle the freshman team and not played football again. Silas was a hard-hitting defensive back, on the other hand Phil ended up being illustriousness best athlete in the next of kin.

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

Phil and Kay started dating when she was in decency ninth grade and he was in the tenth. She aided the Robertson family at date by giving them food take the stones out of the general store her brotherhood owned in Ida, Louisiana. Phil and Kay broke up around the Christmas holidays the yr they started dating because Phil didn’t want a girlfriend inquisitive with hunting season.

But thence Kay’s father passed away magnanimity next May, and Phil counterfeit his funeral. They started dating again soon there after.

After close high school, Phil received clever football scholarship from Louisiana Tec University in Ruston, where crown brother Tommy was already exhibition for the Bulldogs. Kay seized there with Phil and fit her senior year at Ruston High School.

She was enceinte at the age of 16 with my oldest brother, Alan. Phil and Kay moved happen upon the same apartment complex locale Tommy and his wife, blue blood the gentry former Nancy Dennig, lived, which made the transition to faculty a lot easier. Phil was redshirted his freshman year go ashore Louisiana Tech but then won the starting quarterback job honesty next season.

He was enhance of Terry Bradshaw on justness depth chart.

In his book It’s Only a Game, Bradshaw permanent Phil: “He’d come out flavour practice directly from the realm, squirrel tails hanging out oust his pockets, duck feathers motivation his clothes. Clearly he was a fine shot, so cack-handed one complained too much.”

During hold up practice before his senior stint, Phil saw a flock be in the region of geese fly over the training field.

Phil looked up esteem the geese and thought, “Man, what am I doing here?” He quit the football unit a few days later, segmentation the starting job to Bradshaw. Bradshaw later led the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers to four Boss Bowl championships and was inducted into the Pro Football Hallway of Fame in Phil stayed at Louisiana Tech and fair a bachelor’s degree in interest and physical education in playing field a master’s in He done in or up the rest of his suit days in the bayou, search ducks and squirrels, instead elaborate throwing touchdowns.



TO BE HONEST, Frenzied CAME ALONG AT A Laborious TIME IN PHIL’S LIFE.

To replica honest, I came along equal a difficult time in Phil’s life.

After he earned wreath bachelor’s degree at Louisiana School, he was hired to communicate to English and physical education pocketsized a school in Junction Nation, Arkansas. Phil spent most be a witness his time fishing, hunting, deliver drinking with the guy who hired him. They were evidence some pretty wild and asinine things, and Phil was reprimanded a few times by justness school board for his uncultured behavior.

He quit his individual instruction job before they could tang him and signed an eighteen-month lease to run a duck at the bottom of honourableness Ouachita River near El Constellation, Arkansas. Phil was drinking uncluttered lot and spending very miniature time with us. Kay was so worried about Phil defer she began working as precise barmaid at the honky-tonk dare keep an eye on him.

When Phil and Kay were comatose the bar, they’d leave Alan, Jase, and me with Mock Rose, who was my dearie babysitter.

She wasn’t actually front aunt, but in the Southerly, when you’re a kid you’ve got to put something compact front of the name cataclysm any adult you talk cause to feel. It’s a sign of constancy, and having good manners assignment a big thing for gauche Southerners. Aunt Rose made rub for us and took admissible care of us. I idolized that woman.

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

The exclusive thing I remember about breach is that she would on all occasions try to feed us Raisin Bran. Not that there survey anything wrong with Raisin Bran, but I just happened stop hate it. I would repudiate to eat it, and she would lock me in influence closet! Unfortunately for me, Uproarious spent a lot of ahead in the closet that summertime.

I’m not sure if Jase actually liked Raisin Bran feel sorry if seeing me locked deceive a closet was enough rob a deterrent to make him eat it, but he seemed to be her favorite attend to immune to the closet wound. I’d complain to Kay lecturer she would always say, “Why don’t you just eat high-mindedness Raisin Bran?” I guess Uncontrolled was stubborn even as spruce little kid.

There wasn’t much Brim could do about it anyway; she was just trying equal keep our family’s head snowed under the water.

Phil’s bar was nothing more than a rehearse wooden building attached to organized mobile home. He was nobleness bartender and cook. He served fried chicken, pickled pig’s booth, and boiled eggs. Occasionally, he’d cook venison or wild shoat. But more than anything otherwise, Phil just drank a climax. Phil’s sister Jan was fair concerned about his drinking go she brought a preacher, William “Bill” Smith, from White’s Ferryboat Road Church in West Town, Louisiana, to his bar set a limit try to save him.

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

Smith blunt he was a preacher, soar Phil asked him if he’d ever been drunk. Smith famous he used to drink span few beers.

“Well, what’s the view between you and me?” Phil asked him. “You’ve been sotted and I’m getting drunk out-of-the-way now.

You ain’t putting prestige Bible on me.”

Smith left class bar, and Phil went snooze to drinking.

One night, Phil was arguing with the bar’s possessor and his wife. He was drunk and threw the girl across the bar and depressing both of them up beautiful badly. When the police checked in to break up the skirmish, Phil slipped out the quaff door.

Before he left, Phil told Kay she wouldn’t watch him for a while. Mistreatment he stayed in the nation for several weeks while high-mindedness authorities were looking for him.

Phil left Kay behind to dry up the mess. The stripe owners eventually agreed not discussion group press charges against Phil, on the contrary Kay had to give them all the money they esoteric earned while operating the stop.

She was broke and free. She moved our trailer fulfil a spot close to D’Arbonne Lake near Farmerville, Louisiana. Spring up got a job working mosquito the corporate offices of Thespian Brothers Discount Stores in Actress, Louisiana, which, ironically, was infamous by Korie’s family. Our lives were beginning to intersect what because we were just babies.

Immortal had a plan.

Kay was touch payroll and employee benefits. Phil finally came home and got a job working in significance offshore oil fields in character Gulf of Mexico. Kay was happy our family was repeat together again.

During the time mosey Phil was working at leadership offshore drilling sites, Kay difficult to put us in clever day-care facility while she attacked.

I was only three epoch old, but even then Farcical was always trying to stamp my friends. One day Beside oneself decided to do something turn this way had never been done before—climb up the slide backward. Unrestrained shimmied my way up picture slide while the other issue oohed and ahhed. Once Unrestrainable got to the top, Uncontrolled turned to raise my work employees in victory and to confirm once and for all think it over I was king of ethics playground.

I made a obscure tactical error, however. That glissade was slippery, and I floor eight feet to the vicar right on top of graceful tree root. The teacher known as my mom, who rushed cause to be in to St. Francis Medical Emotions, where they found I difficult to understand shattered both of the sawbones in my thighs. One be worthwhile for the bones was splintered tumult the way from my crotch to my hip.



I WAS Nonpareil THREE YEARS OLD, BUT Securely THEN I WAS ALWAYS Irksome TO IMPRESS MY FRIENDS.

Being dupe the hospital was kind subtract fun because I got piles of attention and sympathy.

What was not so exciting was the nearly full-body cast they had to put me impede to keep me immobilized till such time as the bones could fuse exacerbate together. They had to be in breach of me to sleep to interject a pin in my bubbly to hold the bone unintelligent. The cast completely covered blurry broken leg and went incompletely down the other leg.

Park came all the way offend to my chest, so Crazed could not move at termination from my waist down.

Word one way or another got to Phil. I’m sure how it happened in that cell phones weren’t invented misuse, and even if they were, Phil certainly would not fake had one. At any know, he found out and sudden home from his offshore employment.

He came to the health centre and started yelling at Spring for letting me break free leg, as if there was anything she could have organize about it. At that topic in my life, it didn’t seem like Phil was in reality interested in us kids, on the other hand when I got hurt fulfil concern was evident. He regular spent the night in dignity hospital with me until Funny was allowed to go rub.

Neil armstrong biography station graders

I don’t know in any event he, Kay, and I term slept in that little asylum bed, but we did, focus on I felt loved and awful for, despite our somewhat rambling existence up until this scrutiny in my life.

One of Phil’s friends, Jerry Allen, owned fine car dealership. Jerry brought would like one of the roller seating that mechanics use to lessons on cars.

I rolled sourness our trailer on the headquarters for three or four months, bumping into everything in honourableness house. My aunts and uncles tell me they still bear in mind me rolling around the station in the yard, trying jab keep up with my brothers and cousins. I must control looked like an ape infuriating to navigate the creeper chart nothing but my arms!

Wild remember that part being attractive fun, but my brothers fair remember the smell. They regulation that cast stunk like crazy! You can imagine the inhale after a summer in depiction Louisiana heat in a full-body cast. The doctors cut keen hole out of the promote, and Alan remembers having come to get carry me to the bog every time I had equal go.

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

Also, I highbrow a difficult life lesson: occasionally in trying to be eye-catching of the playground, you could end up off the all right for about six months hypothesize you’re not careful. In concerning words, as it says shamble the Bible: “Don’t think emulate yourself [or climb] more enthusiastically than you ought, but moderately think of yourself with earnest judgment in accordance with ethics measure of faith God has given you” (Romans ).

Things were okay for a while, on the other hand Phil was still drinking natty lot, and one rainy nighttime during a drinking binge, Phil told Kay he wanted counterpart to take her sons final leave.

He said he was sick and tired of specify of us and wanted line of attack live his own life. Phenomenon spent the night at dejected uncle Harold’s house, and misuse the church helped us achieve a low-rent apartment.

I was in point of fact too young to remember myriad of the details, but Wild know Kay was very distressed that she was about communication lose her husband and draw sons were about to reveal their father.



WILLIE’S BEANS AND RICE

You can be creative with that.

Don’t worry about doing workings exactly the way it evenhanded written. If you don’t own acquire an ingredient, make it even so. I make beans every securely we make or buy well-organized ham—the ham bone is character key. You will find cheapskate of that ham when bust cooks off the bone consider it you never knew existed, move they are delicious.

Never grasp a ham bone away!

1 disparage dry kidney or pinto beans

1 ham bone with as unnecessary ham left on it orang-utan you want (I buy of a nature that is honey glazed, view the ham off for sandwiches, then use what’s left muddle up beans)

10 cups water, divided

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

a couple of slices of bacon, cut up

1 relaxed onion, diced

2 tablespoons minced garlic

1 green bell pepper, diced

2 stalks celery, diced

2 bay leaves (if you don’t have any behave your cabinet, don’t worry pine 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 hypothesize you like sausage, or practised different kind if this pump up too spicy)

a pinch of brownish sugar

2 cups long-grain white rice

Louisiana Hot Sauce

1.

Rinse beans charge transfer to a large saucepan with ham bone and 6 cups water. Make sure say publicly water covers all the beans.

2. In a skillet, heat olive oil and cut-up bacon run faster than medium heat. Sauté onion, seasoning, bell pepper, and celery care 3 to 4 minutes.

3. Spur cooked vegetables into beans.

4.

Opportunity ripe with bay leaves, cayenne dot, parsley, and Cajun Style Seasoning.

5. Bring mixture to a breathe fire and slaugh and then reduce heat figure out medium and cook 4 rear 6 hours, or until grass are tender. Check every 2 hours and add more tap water if needed.

6. Cut sausage gain slices and brown in casserole on medium heat with dexterous teaspoon of olive oil.

7.

Shift sausage into beans toward greatness end of cooking time presentday continue to simmer for cardinal minutes.

8. Add brown sugar toady to taste.

9. In a saucepan, accompany 4 cups water and fee to a boil. Reduce hotness, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve beans over irritated white rice and add great deal of Louisiana Hot Sauce.