Who am I?

My name is Gary Wayne Boyd.

I have now passed the half century mark by a decade and a half. I am a native Texan, fourth generation.

I was born in Houston, Texas. My parents moved to Pasadena prior to me reaching two. I met and married my wife of over 40 years in Pasadena. We started our family in Pasadena. In the early 1990’s, we packed our bags and moved to Alvin, Texas.

I went to Richey Elementary, Jackson Intermediate, and Pasadena High Schools. I was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, Pack & Troop 506 when I was younger. Our Scout Master, Harry Estes, had a large influence on my life and values.

I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church. When I was growing up my family were members of Richey Street Baptist Church. My father was a member until his death.

I grew up an avid sci-fi fan. My favorite author was Robert Heinlein, although, I devoured the books of any other author I could get my hands on. While I have stayed a sc-fi fan for most of my life I never was a great fan of sc-fi movies until the 80’s and 90’s when the special effects finally caught up with my imagination.

As a child I spent my summers visiting my relatives (mostly out in the country). While few of my relatives still made their living as farmers, most still lived in the small rural communities of Fort Bend and Wharton Counties. I guess my favorite place was my grandparents, Howard and Covie Sewell, in Orchard. Grandpa Sewell worked for Duval Corporation at their sulfur refinery in Orchard. In his spare time he had a tree nursery where he raised mainly Live Oaks. They had a cement tank for windmill pumped water to water the trees, and, we used the tank as a swimming pool. Grandma Sewell was artistic and when we were down, she would have us doing all types of handcrafts. I suppose it kept us busy and un-bored, although, I can recall many an afternoon spent just sitting up in the top of a tree in the back pasture watching the world go by.

My dad in those days moonlighted (how many people remember what that means) for Lowe’s Theaters. He was an Assistant Manager at the Lowe’s State Theater on Main St. in Houston from about 1960 until they demolished the building in 1972. It was a lot of fun being able to grow up with a theater for a playground. Once I reached my teenage years I would spend my summers working as an usher at the theaters. I have many a fond memories of the people who worked there.

Once out of school, I got a job with Freeman Decorating Company sitting up conventions, trade-shows and parties. That was 1973, and until the fall 2008 I was still there. Now most of my time is spent working on my blogs, Playing with my grandson, and making occasional forays into the wild to take photo’s of whatever I can find.

In 1978 I married Sherry Bales and we set up our home in the house my parents had started out in. We had two of our children at that location before we moved across Pasadena to a home we had built in 1988/89. While in our new home we were blessed with our final two children.

We decided in 1993 it was time to find a less crowded area to live (our side of Pasadena was booming and traffic was getting worse by the day). Our search led us to Alvin and the old farmhouse we now call home.

It is now 2010 and, now that I am no longer employed with Freeman, we are beginning to explore what direction we will explore during the second half of our life.

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