We started this, it started out when I first moved here in 1991 and it was a little bit
of just a little small room taxi during me where a couple of guys were kind of interested
in it and they started meeting with me and we started mounting a few little things.
Of course back then we didn't have a lot of stuff coming in so to speak so it was kind
of stuff we'd kill ourselves and you know so it started out that and then as the years
went by some of them went in other directions and then newer guys that wanted to learn taxidermy
started coming and so it kind of became a little taxidermy school in a way.
I've trained a couple of guys that have opened their own shops in different parts of the
state and some of them were pastors who used this as a supplemental income.
Here at our shop we take in a little bit of money but it's not a lot.
We do a lot of free work or half price work and the monies that we do take in a lot of
it goes to providing the meals and stuff that we do in here but over the years it began
to develop into a cooking thing where we started cooking on Tuesdays and at first it was just
for the men in the shop, whoever was working, six, seven, eight guys and we did that for
probably two years and then people started hearing about us cooking and so one or two
would show up on a Tuesday and then as time went on it built up to what it is and it's
gotten to be a pretty big thing as you saw yourself for the last few times that we've
been doing this.
Let me just say this, we could read this and it would be accurate if we read it this way,
the kingdom of God.
It says kingdom of heaven but the key to the success of this particular ministry is this
ministers to men where they're at.
Most of the guys you see in here hunt and fish.
There may be one or two that come just because they like to eat but what got most of these
guys coming was the hunting and fishing.
We have a sportsmen's fellowship club in our church and we pay an annual view of $20
a year to belong to it and we fish little inside tournaments amongst ourselves and y'all
ought to be here to hunt and see.
It's competitive man, it's competitive in here and we hadn't been on a fishing trip
this past week or y'all would have heard a lot about it.
As a matter of fact, just listen to this watch this, Gary, Gary.
Who won that last tournament at Rayburn?
Me.
How you figure that?
We had the five biggest fish.
You sure?
I said it.
We never weighed them, how do you know?
Because y'all had all Sardines.
And this is on...
Who called the biggest fish?
What's that?
Who called the biggest fish?
Was it Benjy or you?
Which one?
I was an ounce bigger than this.
Yours was an ounce bigger.
You... go tell her your lie was, tell her your lie was.
Tell her your lie was.
He bought a can of Sardines and gave to me and he said there's more meat in this can
of Sardines than the five fish you weighed in that day.
And he said the neat thing about this when you eat the Sardines you can have the can
as a liable.
Yeah, I caught a 30 pound beaver.
And that's it.
