Sunday, December 31, 2006

Pots



Mayhaw Pepper Jelly


Chicken + Sausage Gumbo


The everpresent stock pot

Christmas in Louisiana is all vessels of opportunity. Wrapped gifts, stuffed animals, perpetually steaming pots, twin freezers parked in the garage filled deep with sealed packages of dark carnivorous treats. Here diets are lost causes and filling is the law of the land.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

The Good Guys

So my 3 yr. old nephew Trey and I have been discussing things. Here's a few things I've picked up.

The good guys listen to the truth.
The bad guys go where the wild things are and bump into things.
We're the good guys.
We race the bad guys on motorcycles.
The good guys are big helpers.
And they listen to the truth.


Things are great here visiting my folks in Louisiana. I am, however, gaining approximately 5 lbs a day and have eaten samples of approx. half of the animals on Noah's boat. Samples include: catfish, alligator, wild pig, tame pig, flightless pigeon, cornish hen, rotissary turkey, etc.

Getting sleepy... Must escape land of crawfish lotus eating...

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Thumbs Down Louisiana Transect

No pictures this post. It was too dark and the rain too thick to document all the delay and carnage on I-10 across southern Louisiana.

Here's the quote of the trip, though. Michael says, " Look at those A-holes on the onramp stuck in traffic. Wait a minute... they're merging with us. WE'RE the A-holes!"

So blizzards in Colorado turned into biblical rainfall in LA which turned our trip into an endless slomotion rubbernecking extravaganza featuring a car-carrier trailer split in half with all cars aboard roasted- and then a few miles after that another tractor trailer with the trailer exploded into charred wreckage and then a few miles after that on the super steep bridge over Lake Charles two cars wrecked on the bridge. Slow down and get off your cell phones or cb radios or crack addictions, people! Don't you know that Louisiana roads are designed to support the carnage industries?

Thumbs up Abita Springs, home of glorious Abita beer and some fine Acadian cottage architecture.

Thumbs-up for the Mississippi Welcome Center (MUCH nicer than the Alabama and Louisiana Welcome Centers)! It's this really nice brick mansion with this super hospitable hostess who offered us free beverages and gave us unsolicited directions and an update on the progress of rebuilding Jefferson Davis' house (a mere 25 million to rebuild the White House of the confederacy).

We didn't check out the Texas Welcome Center. We pretty much knew where we were going at that point plus I was sleeping.

Merry Christmas to all and I don't want to hear anyone bitching about taking shoes off at the airport. Try 6 hours of thundersquall and rubberneckage next time! People stuck in Denver are allowed to bitch all they want.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Ketchup and Time Travel

Here's the blog entry where we time travel together to catch up with the ghost of not-yet-christmas-recent-past. Here we go...

let's see, there were adventures in crawlspaces
















There were rooftop adventures with the worm drive saw.





There was snow!




I bought a Bosch Colt trim router...




And a Plymouth Colt Vista...


I did some finishing for Caroline.



There was keeping up with the Jones...



And a nice sunset tonight on Highland Street.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Masters of Mayhaw


I just got these pictures from my dad who by day is a sometimes-mild-mannered attorney and by weekend and whenever he's not hunting and fishing works in his Mayhaw orchard. Here's some behind the scenes documention of the budding mahaw industry. For those of you who don't know what the hell a Mayhaw is, well, use google and educate yourself. What I can tell you is that with the help of this little blue concentrator and the LMA (Louisiana Mayhaw Assoc) board, you'll soon be craving a scoop of Mayhaw iced cream.

Thank you Harvard Machine works in Clinton, LA!
Thank you LMA board!!
Here's part of dad's orchard. Also the little house in the background that Hugh and I helped fix up! Posted by Picasa