First, you need a working bathroom, right? Well, with the help of LilSis and Handy Friend, the bathroom is getting a much needed makeover. Here’s a little sample of the floor before we started. And this, after LilSis and I removed the toilet. Sorry, I just had to do it. Forgive me, please….
Well, I’ve been preoccupied with a very special, top-secret project. See the beautiful run-down cypress house in the photo above? I acquired this old cypress house in February of this year. The house was purchased “as is”, because it was sorely neglected, and I saw great potential. It is going to become Camp Dularge, a nightly…
It’s a very unusual thing for me to A)Turn the TV on at 4 in the afternoon B)Leave it on to watch Oprah Winfrey, but I did. A “tease” drew me in while folding clothes, so I fell for it. Everything happens for a reason, and I learned something I really needed to know. This…
and then a swarm. That’s how it is with life on the bayou. It seems there is never a dull moment. And maybe there are no dull moments in city or suburban life, but I suspect those moments are a little different from ours. After being sick, living out of ice chests for 5 days,…
Well, we do, and it’s that time of year again. Signs have cropped up all over town touting “Live Crawfish $1.50 per pound”, which is very much a first-of-the-season price. Near the end of the season, the price will go down to as low as $.49 a pound. You must understand the culture, though. Predominantly…
I played Jo the plumber today. Remember her from that old TV show, “Green Acres”? And it works! I don’t think I was ever so happy to see fire in my life! Go girl power! Oh, and the muscles of my 20-year-old-son, who helped me hoist it into the closet and manhandle all the other…