A friend recently lost a relative and she said, “It’s sad. Just like that, she’s gone, they are scraping the body out, and the next thing you do is clean out the refrigerator. Like it was all nothing.” Today they found an elderly black man floating in the bayou. He had apparently been there for a while. Did someone miss him? Was there an APB out for this old man? I’m learning to live with…
Snappy was lasso’d on the bayou last night by a dog walking cowboy and Fish and Wildlife sent over one of their trappers, who tied up Snappy, renamed him Esmeralda (everyone is switching teams around here), and drove him to Lake Salvador and set him free. Apparently Snappy was hot on the heels of two pom pom dogs and the cowboy was doing a good deed by rescuing these nondogs from certain death. Oh well,…
I did get out to the porch yesterday afternoon and we all sat there enjoying the view and less heat as the breeze had kicked up just a little. The light from the sunset was so beautiful, that we decided to get the canoe out and go for a quick ride. T rowed us around the bayou and we watched an amazing sunset with streaks of scarlet, fuchsia, and pale pink. Then we came back…
Nothing worse than being in your office around 7:30 on a Sunday evening. My favorite time of day is right now, the gloaming, and I’m racing to finish and go sit on the front porch and catch the remaining light of this summer’s day. The ducks are a little disconcerting. We already had ducks but someone put some new ducks in the bayou. I know, I know, why would I want an alligator and not…
I have had the pleasure of hanging around a 14-year-old lately and it is a curious age. There is an adult, a child, a teen, a sea of confusion, living inside that body and mind. “Who am I?” the teen asks herself not consciously but in everything she does. She aligns herself with adults she wants to emulate, and bats off adults the child in her wants to be free from. I was 14 once…
Our Croatian cousin wanted pancakes so of course there was an invitation to this kid and that kid that we were making pancakes and waffles at the LaLa this morning and nine kids showed up! Anyway, we worked fast and furious to produce buttermilk confections and every last batch was consumed and then about 2PM we all collapsed into nap mode. The kids left happy – two water balloons each on exit, the dogs were…
When worlds collide – we started off with some friends who came by and then another, and then our neighbor was having a party and we went there to have food and then another set of friends dropped by on their way to a another party. My M.I.L. said, “What an evening!” But this is typical of our little village here where everyone knows everyone and hanging out on the front porch and chatting about…
You ever notice how the celebrity rant goes? Somebody over night becomes IT and then everything they do is under scrutiny and then suddenly the lynch mob appears to take them down. Well, our little four and a half foot alligator sheepishly appeared in our bayou and created quite a stir. There was a) the photo op, b) the naming – Snappy, c) the bravo, Snappy was eating the nutrias, d) the Snappy might hurt…
Yesterday evening as I wound up the work week, I hit a snag that sent me into a torturous state. It was similar to the torturous state that had started the week. Let’s see week starts with mom falling again. Week ends with an external glitch. I took to bed as any good Southern woman would do and called a girlfriend who knows the circumstances. Her voice was soothing on the phone, “Oh honey, I…