Another hot dry week here. It’s really quite amazing how much rain towns around Belle River have been getting but nothing here despite forecasts. My Tennessee daughter sent me pictures of a virtual lake running down her yard, my south Florida granddaughter has expressed joy that the rain there seems to be over. I’m looking out to a yard that is increasingly brown, bare and pitiful. It actually did rain just a little yesterday, but I don’t think the ground even got wet. I guess I should not complain. That feast or famine thing.
Mr. Huet, I filled my feeder and at least two Hummingbirds have been buzzing around this morning. I think they gave me a nasty look which might have said it was about time to get some juice in here!
I make my own liquid with one cup of sugar to four cups of water and used to add a drop of red food coloring but read that the Hummers didn’t need the color and it might even not be good, so now I just keep it clear. I think the red color was for me more than the birds!
Food for Seniors will be this week, Thursday. I will call my recipients today and tomorrow to remind them. I always tell them when the next food is coming and I put it on the Stephensville/ Belle River Daily FB page but there are some who don’t see that. It’s kind of a lot to call but each person tells another so it turns out not to be so many. Many thanks to Dorothy Giroir who helps me with the calling job. She’s a wonderful helper.
Yoga for Seniors tonight and I will be going to that one and might have to miss the class tomorrow morning. It seems like lots of things happen in September and October. I have a lunch with Pierre Part school retirees, a craft show in Veterans Park on Oct. 5, a Chamber of Commerce lunch on Oct. 7, and the food boxes.
Bingo for Seniors is cancelled for Oct. 7 which is a shame but the new hostess had some obligations previously set before she took on the Bingo job Since I am involved in the Assumption Friends of the Library, the parish director asked me/ my group if we’d be interested in selling discarded books and DVDs at the craft show. I’ve done this once before, many years ago and it was a flop. People didn’t buy books then and I suspect they may buy even less now with tablets, phones, et al. But my board members thought it was a good idea so we’re going to set up a table and see what happens. What doesn’t sell or what we can’t give away will be handled by the main library. Not sure what they do with them. It breaks my heart to imagine books being tossed in a dumpster so if you know anyone or anyplace that might want books and/ or DVDs let me know. Honestly, I’ve mentioned this before I’m sure, but I can’t imagine what I will ever do with my own books and I have a lot.
I heard or read or saw that a ‘sill’ will be put in the Mississippi River someplace to my south to stop salt water from intruding now that the river is low and the drought is extensive. I’d thought a sill might be an actual structure, like a pipe or maybe a concrete ridge but a person recently told me it’s just a ridge of dirt, sort of like a low levee I guess, that stops the heavy salt water from coming into the Mississippi river. That made me recall a recent encounter with a local fisherman who swore up and down that he had just caught a shark off the Belle River dock. I figured he might now have known what he had caught, but considering the salt water is pushing in because of the drought, maybe he really did catch a shark. Teche News’ Lower St. Martin correspondent, Linda Cooke, can be emailed at [email protected].
