Butte La Rose

Bonjour!
Tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 29), a few of our Bluegrass music jammers are to come by and pick me up to go entertain and share our respects and gratitude for the veterans there at the Louisiana World Veterans Home in Jackson. I’ve played at the Veterans Home in Jennings in the past. These veterans were so grateful to hear those old country songs of their youth. And I think it’s a first for our group to venture and maybe we’ll do it again.
Denver Nobles from Scott is the musician whose dad, 88-year-old Denver Nobles Sr., lives at that home. Denver plays guitar and bass fiddle. His dad still sings and plays guitar and harmonica, which he begin to play since age three. Also going is Roger Schexnayder, Midland, guitar; Rip Parsons, Jennings, guitar; Scot Zaizan, Port Barre, fiddle and vocals; Perlin LeBlanc, Lafayette, guitar; Mark Norman, mandolin, guitar, bass, fiddle; et moi! We all sing. Everything is so “Cajun” here, I wonder if we could find room for Bluegrass? That was our first music played on our battery radio 1940s.
Too many people forget that while they’re reading their newspaper and sitting down comfy, drinking coffee, we need to thank God and our veterans for this freedom. Many gave their lives while others gave their freedom to fight in horrible wars so that we can keep ours. This has not been an easy task or road of survival for them to travel. You can read everyday and it’s common knowledge of the veterans even dying while waiting for medical help. We owe these veterans so much. And yet they ask for nothing in return except our respect. And hopefully their rightfully owed medical needs.
New Orleans! Hurricane Katrina is being celebrated world wide for it’s tenth year anniversary of devastation along the Gulf Of Mexico. It is sad that so many lives were lost. Katrina was an act of God. Not manmade. Man is not to blame or responsible. The force of nature is more powerful than man. There are areas of this city that will take many more years to reconstruct, some areas maybe never. And many the people who have left may never come back. After one time comes another. Home is where you make it. They’ll grow new roots. Some places within the boundaries of NO, grass and weeds have grown and going back to nature!
It will take many years for the city to catch up. Rest assured, it will never be what it was before that historical devastating storm. But New Orleans will come back even better. I read where the sea levels are rising world wide because of the world wide melting of snow and ice. New Orleans was the Gulf of Mexico centuries past. And the gulf may well come back to reclaim it again. I enjoy reading up such stories on the web. There is so much information out there to read about that you will not find it all in newspapers. And I most often pick and choose what I want to read because of what interest me most that catches my eye.
If you’d ever want to know anything about our waterways, read up on the Corps of Engineers. Go to any public library. You’ll be amazed and fascinated to read up about the Mississippi River. It runs through New Orleans. Something I would not have known but learned about how the banks of the Mississippi right here in Baton Rouge are eroding from natural water currents. I was a member of the Atchafalaya Basin Advisory committee several years ago. I followed the meetings while learning how the Basin functions. Anyone can get information by inquiring with the State Land office in Baton Rouge. Salute! Amètie,

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