Cody Archie

And I danced around in front of her a few times at the local beer joint, just kind of showing off my moves, but wouldn't ask her to dance.

And then I got word through the cousins that, hey, you should ask her out again.

It's called strutting.

Yeah.

Yeah, like a bandy rooster out there.

So I asked her out again, and I like to say she never left after that.

She just stuck around.

No, the first day we actually went to a dance hall that pretty much if you had a pulse or you were old enough to walk up to the deal, they would serve you.

Oh, man.

Pretty Texas.

I don't think they have the pretty stomp is what it was called.

We check cows out that way now pretty regular, but that's where we went, and the rest is history.

So that makes what you're doing now first generation?

Yep.

Absolutely.

You know, my family's been involved in ag for a long time.

I was telling somebody, you know, when I got brought home from the hospital, my mom and dad both worked in a preconditioning yard where my mom kept all the books.

My dad, you know, doctored and processed calves and everything.

You know, I spent the first... Part of the reason I'm portly like I am now is because the... He's got a lot of excuses.

The deep South Texas hands that we had working there at that time all made tortillas every afternoon when they got off work.