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Bonjour!
By the time this column is read, my daughter Tina I will have visited my son Steve in Florida. It’s a short trip specially so he can hear our voices and feel our touches. His daughter Maria and her family living in Tallahassee tend to her dad making sure he is comfortable. He is and being well cared for.
I have not seen him in a few months. His brain damage is such that he can see things and even his family but he does not know what he is seeing but knows our voices. He recalls the past so we bring back his old memories with him. I miss his phone calls. He was a commercial fisherman.
Several weeks ago I took out a bag of old raw grits I had stored and put in a feeder for the birds. They surely don’t care how old the grits were. But maybe the grits were too dry so they didn’t eat ’em. I put em back in the container, placed it on the edge of the porch for the trash. Mais la, I accidentally bumped the container spilling into a little pile on the ground. I have a lightweight shovel a friend gave me and I should have shoveled them up to throw in the woods, but did not.
I did not notice a smell until the rains begin about a week later. Well, Lord have mercy! That rain flooded the yard, under the house and sure enough those grits flowed with the flow everywhere. It’s over six weeks now and all the rain we’ve had since is yet to wash the grits away. You can’t see the grits, but you can sure as hell smell that horrible sour like I’ve sprayed the yard and porch with vomit. Pooyie! And that smell is not going away too soon. Every time I walk out on the porch, there it is! I would not wish that on my worst enemy. I wonder how long I’ll have to live with it?
Notice! Senior Citizen Educational Seminar Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary, Tuesday, June 16, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Cypress Bayou Casino Pavilion in Charenton. Please attend this formative seminar and enjoy a delicious lunch by the Chitimache Tribe and Cypress Bayou Casino. Pavilion doors open at 11 a.m. Must be 21 to enter casino. Reservations required. Contact St. Martin Council on Aging at (337) 332-3063. Presented by 16th Judicial District Attorney Bo Duhé. Hosted and sponsored by Cypress Bayou Casino.
Well, June is not only the beginning of hurricane season. It is also fig month. Figs will ripen until sometime in late July. Very important – I have said this before for all of you who have those very painful, annoying leg cramps that waken you from a good nights sleep. I can speak for myself from experience. Eating at least three frozen raw figs a couple times a week does prevent this reoccurring painful misery. So when you’re driving around look for yards with fig trees and ask the owners to sell you enough figs that would be one per day to last a year. They store and preserve well in zip locks in your freezer and stays separate if you don’t smash together. It is so well worth it and tasty.
I had not been to a Mass in Henderson for some time. So I did last Sunday. It feels different attending a complete Mass and not play music. I enjoyed and appreciated it. I’ve never been to a Baptist or Christian church yet. I have reached an age with many surprises. Hope you all had the chance to read about Ms. Vielle. I have more to add later. And also this week’s Teche Life Style. Great reading on the write up about the La Pousierre.

Cousine Hélène
337-280-1988.
helenboudreaux@juno.com.