The nice weather continues. My knees are turning black with ground-in dirt from planting flowers. I’m eating green beans almost every day and today I consumed my very first homegrown tomato. It was delicious.
Jason and David Benham are two entrepreneurs on a Godward mission. As their real estate business in Charlotte became one of the fastest growing in America, they felt a distinct call to use their marketplace influence for the glory of God.
Despite the forecasts lately, we haven’t been getting a lot of rain. Each day this week has begun with a lovely sunrise and generally a dry evening. Belle River is still and smooth. By mid-afternoon, there are a few showers but so far (knock on wood) no huge downpours.
My nurseryman tells me this will be a bad summer for barefooted kids. A hardier than usual crop of Soliva sessilis sneaking into lawns across south Louisiana is the cause of the trouble.
On Oct. 25, 1849, the Planters’ Banner in Franklin quoted several paragraphs from an article in the New Orleans Picayune, that pointed out decades later something that Jean Lafitte and others had learned long before – that coastal Louisiana was then (and largely still is) a smuggler’s paradise.