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Wild purple what?
It’s that time again. The time where I come across one of my favorite things on the bayou: WILDFLOWERS! This week some beautiful flowers on the shoulder of the road caught my attention. I literally stopped traffic to get a photo because I had to park on the road, since they were on the shoulder…
Someone has a birthday this week!
This email arrived in my box recently. I was waiting for the best time to share it with you, but there doesn’t seem to be a best time with so much going on this week. I’ve had company all week and work, work, work on the cypress cottage, and taking my company fishing and out…
Phone call and a Valentine
THE PHONE CALL: Me: “Hello? Danno (21 year old single son!): “What are you doing right now?” Me: “I’m just talking to a house-raiser man, why?” Danno: “Because I want to come down and hang out with you and the boys before I go back on the boat tomorrow. Do you need anything from town?”…
Dirty Rice and Field Peas
Okay, to some of you, dirty rice smacks of disgust–picturing rice you scooped up off the floor and used again, right? And what the heck are field peas, anyway? I mean, how generic can a pea be, right?
Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency
Makes me think of the Wizard of Oz. Only Dorothy didn’t have a storm warning, she wasn’t told to get out, and no agency offered her emergency grant money to make her journey to Oz and to buy apples along the way. But wait. Dorothy was only dreaming, after all.
I see the good moon risin'
I see good things on the way. I think we’re in for pretty weather. I hope I can go fishin’ today! PS My cousin who grew up around New Orleans says this about this moon: I heard that Native Americans call it the Wolf Moon. In New Orleans it’s known as the King Cake Moon….
Cool! I’m jealous. I never get to see Horned owls.
Would you believe there were three in our backyard at one time, all talking to each other? He rushed inside out of breath and begged to borrow my camera. And this is what he came back with!