Kent Perkins Capital, Inc.

09/03/2024

August was a tough one.

Then September rolled around and brought climate change.

The lakes are back where they need to be. The creek is rushing up the banks 12 feet high, and North Central Texas is as great a place as anyone could be in September 2024.

Texas.

Where climate change isn't necessarily a bad thing.

08/12/2024

Stolen Valor

Committed by a national candidate

It’s getting increasingly hard to believe that the widespread inaccuracies about Walz’s record are merely a series of unrelated misunderstandings.

08/10/2024

Thank you Caterpillar, the world's leading heavy equipment builder, for moving to TEXAS, new home to many of the most successful giants of industry! You grew tired of parasitic, debt-ridden politicians confiscating your money to fund the Left's new American Marxism.

08/03/2024

Your vote is not a Valentine to profess your love for a candidate; it's a chess move to help push your country in the direction it needs to go.

06/26/2024

We have ducks out here that come up every day for hand feeding. Have you ever raised ducks? And was it worth the energy? Or did you find it wasn't quite what it was quacked up to be... And how do you like this ranch logo I designed on the Internet with the help of AI? Just a little too ducky for you? I thought so.

05/03/2024

Capitalism and free enterprise mean unlimited opportunity to realize one's wildest dreams, freedom from big government, self-reliance, attaining any standard of living you wish to achieve while taking care of the truly needy --- but forcing healthy people to support themselves! It made the USA #1... a country worth FIGHTING for.

05/03/2024

Socialism means giving up big dreams, settling for less, relinquishing more control to the government, supplying every need to those too lazy or addicted to support themselves, and then proudly considering yourself "progressive". No... don't go there.

04/27/2024

I'd prefer to die struggling up an unfamiliar trail toward an elusive, remote mountain peak than to spend a long, boring lifetime settling for the mundane view from down below.

Valleys are so boringly crowded with the unfulfilled.

02/23/2024

Happy weekend, friends

02/18/2024

This explains Billy Bob Thornton sightings around town. He's working in Tarrant and Parker Counties making a new series for Taylor Sheridan. BBT is a great guy with more talent in his little toe than the average Hollywood star. He wrote, produced and starred in the Academy Award winning film Sling Blade and he's been here before... we brought him to a Film Festival in Fort Worth a few years ago and I've visited in his Beverly Hills home with our mutual buddy Kinky Friedman a few times. Let's be glad Texas is becoming a magnet for great filmmakers. As a member of the Governor's Commission on the Arts in Texas, all I can say is, "Welcome!" and "Let's keep up the great work!"

'Landman' co-creator Taylor Sheridan also executive-produces

01/13/2024

Thought for the day:

It's not how you start out;; it's where you end up.

In Berkshire, England there's a stately, ancient mansion, Ufton Park, the ancestral home of the Perkins family (apparently my direct lineage) who emigrated to the British Colonies in America well before the Revolutionary War due to religious persecution by the Church of England, according to Ancestry.com and other history sources.

They were Catholics being endlessly harassed for not attending the Official Church; the mansion was raided by Sheriffs looking for priests believed to be hiding within the confines of the Manor; and indeed, there were priests, who escaped through a tunnel system that took them several hundred yards underground from the manor to thick woods where they could hide until the raid was over. Catholic chalices, robes, paintings of the Pope, crosses, and prayer books were, however, confiscated and held as evidence. They were not jailed, but heavily fined and ostracized.

After years of oppression, the Perkins family fled to find religious freedom in the new world.

I think all the Catholic Perkins's have since died off and their offspring became Protestants... seems we sort of went from sprinklin' to dunkin'.

If my family hadn't left Great Britain, I might've had a pretty good life over there as Lord Kent of Berkshire; as it is, I'm just a commoner with a few cows and horses in a slightly smaller house in what was once north-eastern Mexico while my Perkins ancestors resided in England.

Oh well, I guess it could be worse.

Ufton Court is now a Grade 1 listed historical Manor House on 40 acres of land, currently in use as a wedding and event venue and home of the Ufton Court Educational Foundation, open for organized tours. School classes from around the world can explore the house and grounds and hear about its history from docents. The escape tunnels are still there!

I hope there remains a Perkins family room in there somewhere... I'd settle for a little efficiency apartment upstairs with a view of the forests; I may have to head that way in 2024 depending upon what happens over here in the Colonies.

12/08/2023

Thought for the day:

It's more about PRESENCE than PRESENTS.

We aren't mailing out Christmas cards this time, but we love our friends and family, all of you, very much.

If I could design a card, though, it would simply say, "GET OVER IT and love one another again... starting now!"

Almost every family has at least one angry, unforgiving, jealous or bitter person keeping the family from gathering as a united, loving unit. Putting their own petty, self-absorbed feelings above those of the good people who raised them from birth, not allowing their parents to have a unified, loving family to share Christmas together isn't just mean; it's downright sociopathic.

To celebrate the birth of Christ, the gift of eternal life and renewed spirits within us.... how about heading back to your immediate family with a smile; visit, eat a meal, share stories, sing... just like the good old days.

Because you'll look back, if you don't, and realize these were the good old days and they could have been a lot better for your parents if you'd given them the greatest gift possible... a reunited, beautiful family experience to take with them in their hearts forever.

Many of us have family units already separated by death, divorce, cold hearts or some combination of these... and for us old boomers, that's the rule, not the exception.

But whoever among your birth- or adopted- family is still enjoying the gift of life should make it a huge priority this year to celebrate Christmas (or Hannukah!) as a unit of love.

If you can't do that....

"What's it all about, Alfie?"