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.
I’m a bit afraid to say this in case it brings bad luck, but the weather this past week has been gorgeous. I can hear lawnmowers and weedeaters buzzing away every day and all the neighborhood yards look so fresh and neat.
Pastor Malachi O’Brien was stirred to lead his church to seek God for revival at a conference on revival. What happened next transformed his life and congregation: