Late Summer To Do's

Today, I had the chimney sweep come over to the house and clean the fireplace.  This same guy has been cleaning my fireplace for the  past 17 years.  He's known in the community as Handy's Chimney Sweep.  He inspects, re-mortars the inside and out of the fireplace, and does a very good thorough cleaning or sweeping of the fireplace.

Its very important to have these small things performed, if you own a fireplace and burn as much wood as I do.

Its just something about the smell of that smoke, on that first day of that crisp cool air in Louisiana.  It whiffs through the neighborhood.  As soon as one household does it, you can see someone else's fireplace puffing that smoke.... and so Fall comes to the Garden District here in Alexandria.

Also, the white shrimp are running in the Gulf, so today the shrimp man was on Albert Street, he had went to Big Lake early, early  this morning, down by way of Lake Charles to get some shrimp off the boat.  He was hawking them here, so I had to, had too, get me a few pounds, nothing like shrimp that swam in the Gulf last night to be bbq'd in the skillet tonight with a lil white wine, butter, and garlic.

So that's the late summer to do's  ... getting the fire place ready and celebrating the shrimp run.

July's End

Here in the Deep Deep South, we are headed towards the end of the month of July. With this in mind, we are getting close to the qualifying for the Fall 2014 Elections.  Here in Rapides Parish and the City we have the US Senator, Mayor, City Councilmen, District Attorney, few Police Jurors, and a few judgeships thrown in for good measure to vote on November 4, 2014.

So, yard signs are popping up, political debate is heating up, soon the airways will be one political ad after the other. Mail Flyers will be filling the mailboxes and anguish electors will be stomping the ground.

August will be a hot heats passion month with a lot of yak-yak and boasting.

Stay Tune!!!

We are in the middle of summer here in Central Louisiana.  The temps are running around 96 degrees with about 80% humidity. 

As we head towards Labor Day and the end of the official summer, August will be an important month, election qualifying is scheduled for August 20 thru 22nd, with the closing time of August 22nd at 430pm.  Its seems that everyone  is up for re-election this year,  number of judges, city council persons,  local District Attorney, and the Mayor.

Elections will be held on November 4th.  So, its going to be a Fall to remember and with the summer heat/humidity its going to be a hot one.

 My boss, the Mayor, is running for his third term. Young, Democrat, full of spirit, he will as always run a clean campaign and build from his base.