The Ebb and Flow.... and the Approach of Fall

As September approaches....

I am hoping that we here in the Ll City by the Red get back to the Ebb and Flow of Life.. the daily routines... the pace of Life in the Deep, Deep South...

Labor Day is the official end to our Summer.. its also the beginning of Hunting Season.

The Wing Shots will be popping at Noon Time on Sunday... making the doves a hard target to hit.. but (and there is always a but).. I won't be out there. ..  I haven't shot a shotgun in twenty years except for qualifying for certification on the Range with a Riot Gun and Pistol... .

The act of hunting doesn't excite me, I lost that when I moved away from the Home Place.. .. Now I do fish a lil bit from time to time...  Burning  powder, sweating in the Noon Day Sun, popping a top on the Budweiser Can,  Fall in Louisiana will be here shortly...

I am ready to get back to that simple pace here in the Lil City by the Red.....

Aftermath of Laura

Here is a photo of a Water Oak tree that was about 100 feet tall, snapped into by the wind of Laura.

There are three vehicles under the top of that tree.. notice the telephone pole in the foreground and you can judge the height of the tree.

Yuck.... Saturday Clean Up

Today... at the crack of dawn... I was awoken by the buzz of blowers, chain saws etc..

I ground my coffee beans, placed them in the French Press... poured the cream (not half and half please).. tad natural sugar.. and black coffee....

Slipped on my short pants, canvas shoes. t-shirt and out the door to face the new world of buzz saws, blowers....and the every presence of gas/oil mixture.... filling the still humid air of a post hurricane first morning....

All the rain has gone... the blow flies are zipping around from one garbage pile to another.. Yuck Yuck.....


But If you know anything about cleaning tip after a hurricane, folks here in Louisiana know.. .. first and foremost if you are into Self Clean Up, which I am... cause the Price Gouging Crews are out there praying on the newly arrived, no hurricane experienced folks...

You let the leaves and small limbs dry first... its easier to rake... u haul to the curb the big stuff... then as the leaves dry.... and they dry fast... like tomorrow will be better than today...

So, I hauled the big limbs to the curb...  blew off the from yard.. which is postage stamp sizes..... and mainly brick.. made a neat pile on the curb.. and tomorrow will tackle the backyard in sections... starting from the back heading to the front of the back yard...

Then the City will come along with its debris contractors and number the piles, arrange the order of pickup, etc etc....

I am fortunate to have had some friends who have a business and who allowed me to trash the contents of my icebox in their dumpster or I would be like all the others on the street, fighting the blow files... zipping from pile to pile....

I sprayed insecticide on all of my bricks and limb pile to keep the flies away ..

So, goes Life in Louisiana after the Hurricane.. .. Laura . Oh she was Nasty... but At lest she is gone..

I hear tho that we have two more lurking out in the Big Pond... Not Good... Stay Away from Louisiana

Laura ..... She Came.... She Went... and Left some Nasty Taste

After almost three days without power..

The Air Conditioning is back on... and the Candles and Flashlights are put back on the shelf.

We have low water pressure.. but the Electricity is On......

The freezer stayed frozen... the Icebox.. was an entire lost.....

I opened the wine cellar to give air flow.. hopefully it saved the ChD Pape....

Drinking bottle water ... took a shower... the simple things of Life.... no leaves on the trees.. back yard will take days to pick up...

All the folks in the Garden District are ok....

As one of my old friends always says...... "Blessed Be"

Five Months Four Days. Random Thoughts.. Wizzes and Etc

It's been Five Months and Four Days... since I harkened the 3rd Floor of  the Monolith that I work in.... I work from Home now...

I had 87 page views on my blog yesterday when I checked the stats... I usually don't check the blog entry page only to create a new posting.. but I went wandering through the blog site... I have yet to crossover to the new blog site... its not too user friendly I think... so I am on the old blogger site.. hopefully Blogspot won't kick me off any time soon......

Since I have been working from home, my last haircut was March 1st... I have now.... long flowing White Locks... from a semi military cut to Flowing White Locks... . all the neighborhood women love the Flowing White Locks......

The retired La State Trooper has gray locks.. who lives seven doors down.. But I have White Flowing Locks....but he has me on the length... I will catch up with him... maybe one day...

Maybe one day if I last.... till then... I might take a photo.. since that is what some of my blog friends are doing these days.. my bald head with my side White Flowing Locks...

So, its been Five Months Four Days.... since I have seen my office and the downtown sky view of the Lil' City by the Red from the Granite Monolith I had worked from ...   my burnish brown leather chair, my longleaf pine table/desk, my lil' memorabilia on my shelves . counting up the years of public service...

What I miss more than anything is the interaction with the staff... the people who make government run..  checking the jail roster.. helping folks with new court date ... the daily interaction of who's buying chicken wings for lunch.. did John at the Cafe across the street have enough Red Beans and Rice for Monday's lunch.... What cases are being on the docket for the week... etc..etc....etc.......etc.

So, I sit here in the dining room of The Camp on Albert ... typing an entry for this blog....

Five Months Four Days.... Random Thoughts ... Wizzes ..... and Etc ... .... .... ... .... ..... !!!

Tuesday.... I will gladly pay you on Tuesday said Wimpy of Popeye's Fame with Olive Oyl

Wimpy .. was the Master of the Hamburger ...

He would say, I will gladly pay you on Tuesday....

A lil' while ago, several weeks, a friend from out of town, who has the had some ups and downs came  and asked for a loan... I never loan money... if I believe you are deserving of it.. I will give it to you, if you paid it back the so much the better.. but I never loan money.. it creates disappointment in a friendship...

And ultimately will destroy the friendship..

So, here is what I say.. "I will give you what you are asking for.. don't say a word, don't  promise me you will pay it back, that you will come next Tuesday and give me half of it..... Keep your mouth shut.. (you must not use any tact.. upfront blunt honesty works the best).. here is the check.. go cash it.. do what you need to do... "


So, I kept waiting for the check to clear.. and clear and .... clear....

Finally it did.. and with all the markings on it.. looks like he cashed it in some far away place.. naturally I haven't heard from him... Nor will I ...

But at lest he cashed the check and I don't have to wonder why he didn't ... the bank said he waited  and waited.. then he cash it out of state... ..

I helped in a small way... I hope he can return the kindness to someone else.. along the way in his life.

Today is Five Months

Today is Five Months from Working from Home.... here in the Lil City by the Red.....

I took down my post of yesterday... it was too Morose... .. too Pity Party..

I needed to feel better.. and I thought that writing about it would help me... the more I re-read it the worse I got ...... hit the delete button ... "for sure.. as Colin A.. would say".....

So, today I celebrate .. working from home.... Five Months.. its seems so surreal .. truly surreal.

On Monday, I will be having one of the Judicial Candidates for the November election, for one of the Judicial District Minority Slots here, he is stopping by to sit on the porch and meet/greet folks .. socially distancing is a requirement..  basically he will be waving from the front porch.. then he will walk with his campaign staff down the street.

He is a young African American attorney that I have known for some time....   He has the qualities that I believe a Judge must have.. to show human kindness, to uphold the law in tenuous times, and be fair to all parties that come before him.  The Judge that held the position is retiring ..

I hope he does win... his opposition is a young African American Woman.  Both are young and vibrant .. ...

So,   It's Saturday here in the Lil City by the Red....

The New Phrase... Touch Starvation... Suffering from TS

Touch Starvation ..... coined by One from the Best Group of Bloggers that I know.

TS is real...  Touch is important to the survival of the Human Condition.... Period....

I have had limited Touch... Bad Touch... No Touch..... all three categories lead to miserable human mistakes ......  

So, if you have a friend who is in the TS mode.... please, Please, please.... Go Touch Them...

Its Been .........

Its been a lil while... since I posted...

I went Stark  Raving Mad.........

I have now came back to my senses... and so today continue to work from Home, limit my interactions ......

Since August 1st .... I made a couple of errors.... .. no details but just Errors... my exposure to Covid was heighten... due to the physical connection... several times...

And then there was a two more errors..... the lack of self control....the need for the human touch.. lead me down a path that I will not walk down again... for many reasons....

This isolation that has happened is concerning to me...I am having to work on the actual reasons for my actions of the last nine days.... Part of it.. was that I have worked from home for four and half months....

I will keep all posted.