My son is getting one week from tonight. He's marrying a wonderful girl, even if she tends to fall on the shallow side on occasion. I call them "blonde" moments. I can do that you know. I'm blond too. Anyway, they've been planning for months and months and now that the big day is 7 days away they realize they've let time slip away on many ( Read more... )

Sleep, that is. LOL I finally passed out around 1:00 this morning and slept like the dead. I woke up once when the old man crawled under the covers around 6:30 and then didn't get up till almost 10:00. Didn't even get up and go have the oil changed in my car. Feel a little better now, somewhat rested, but I think I've got a long way to go to ( Read more... )

. . . and I ain't got nobody . . . Well, that's not entirely true now is it? I've got myself, my 95 pound chocolate lab Bear and my big fat furry pussy cat Sassy, Sasquatch to his friends. The old man's working dogs this weekend so I'm left to my own devices from sundown till sunup through Monday a.m. What to do, what to DO ( Read more... )

I just LOVE that show! I missed it the first time 'round cause I didn't have HBO but I'm catching the re-runs. It's just too bad they come on so freaking late at night. Yes, boys and girls, 10:00 p.m. IS late for me! I used to get up at 5:30, quarter of 6 and leave home at 6:45 to get to work for 8:00 a.m. but since the hurricanes and with the ( Read more... )

Tonight I write with a heavy heart. Tomorrow begins the last week of work for the best friend I have ever had. After 24 years as a Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Agent he's retiring. We've been friends for over 6 years. Not a lifetime, mind you, but still, that's a long time. For at least the past 3 years we've had lunch together ( Read more... )

The 2005 Battle of New Orleans ( Read more... )

. . . you don't want to look but you can't look away. That's how I feel about the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath. It's easy to sit in our nice comfortable lazy boys and watch that stuff and point fingers at who is to blame for the delay in rescuing those people but it really doesn't do any good, now, does it ( Read more... )

I received the following in an email and thought it summed up the South Louisiana concept quite nicely ( Read more... )

Since Hurricane Katrina came through I’ve been working here at the office, regular hours plus overtime, helping with the purchase, assembly and distribution of supplies for my “guys” who are in New Orleans participating in the search and rescue part of the recovery operation. Yes they have been shot at and everything you’ve seen or heard on the ( Read more... )

I don't usually support or participate in boycotts on anything, like the recent "don't buy gas day" but in this case I'm going to make an exception ( Read more... )