My friend Mr. Huet in Cecilia and I are both enjoying the presence of Hummingbirds at our feeders. I have two visiting regularly now. He has at least one, probably more by now. The technique of suspending a small, plastic cup filled with water on the wire from which my feeder hangs has very effectively kept the ants away.
It is beautiful over here. Sunny, a little breezy, not a drop of rain, which we could use, but cool in the mornings and mid 80s by afternoon.
The dog and I sat on the levee batture the other day and were joined (so to speak) by a family of five who had come to pick blackberries. They said they got a gallon. I have not looked for myself but will do so after a few days.
One of my dog friends also came that day to give his dogs some exercise.
I noticed that the two For Sale signs which had been displayed across from and along a made road going into the woods and I assume to the river had been removed. I don’t know if that means a sale or somebody just didn’t want to be bothered with calls.
I stopped at the Walmart Neighborhood market in Morgan City the other day just to get some dog food and some eye ointment and the lights went out in the store. They came back on pretty quickly but it was incredibly dark/ black in the store until they did. I heard a few yelps of surprise from somewhere but mostly people just stopped where they were. You really couldn’t see a thing! The main result was none of the cash registers worked. I was waiting at a self-serve machine which turned dark and started showing all sorts of technical jargon. A clerk just said to me and others it would take a few minutes for everything to be operational and she was right. Customers were being pretty nice about the whole thing. At least I didn’t hear or see any commotion. Just people like me standing idly in front of a computer screen waiting. A little chatter like “Is yours working yet?’
My biggest problem and it is probably more an age thing, in the disruption of my check out routine I completely forgot where I’d parked my car. I wandered about using my clicker with no luck until a nice employee rounding up carts in the lot came and helped me find the darned car. He even put my bag of dog food in the back seat for me. Now that was a really nice man.
Besides this man, two other people sympathetically asked me “What color is your car?? Which didn’t help at all because it is black and practically every car in the lot was either black or silver. Somebody in Pierre Part has a bright yellow vehicle which now seems like a great idea. Could you ever lose a yellow car?
My younger sister sent me a photo from her local paper showing a picture of the church my parents and I guess most of my family attended in Jackson, Michigan which is now for sale. Asking price was $500,000 which doesn’t seem like much for a big church. It has two big steeples and is on the historic register so it can’t be torn down. I haven’t been in or near it for many years but somehow never thought of a church for sale. Maybe a little one but this is pretty large. I think I heard that once some years back the entire façade of the church had to be cleaned because it was covered with ivy which was degrading the red bricks. How on earth could you repurpose a church?
Teche News’ Lower St. Martin correspondent, Linda Cooke, can be emailed at lindacooke1939@ gmail.com.
