Butte La Rose

Bonjour!

Hey La-bas!

Hey, Bonne Fête à Owen Barras, ‘tite garson de Shannon and Melanie Barras de Catahoula. Bon gateau.

I read on facebook Paul Marks from radio KBON is looking to buy another radio station. It reminded me of listening to Charlie Mack on his all night a.m. trucker’s radio show coming from WBAP Dallas/Forth Worth. And also Dave Nemo at WWL New Orleans had a farther listening range.

These radio shows were relayed to other radio stations out to the midwestern states. It made for a lonely night running the highways with only a CB for company. High mountains cut back on frequency range.

If I’m lying, blame the truckers for telling me so. A little humor! Radio stations were spaced far apart, but that was not the case here.

I’d sometimes catch a station coming out of California. Coming in closer to home, I’d pick up on KWKH in Shreveport. Its station is just off interstate I-20.

There are more radio stations out there now, and I guess they’re all closer together requiring more air wave space.

Digital tuning is a blessing, no more hunting for your station. In comparing Lafayette to the Houston radios, at that time, little ole Lafayette had more country music stations per capita.

The price of gas went up again, cutting deeper into my little budget.

Last Wednesday was senior day at Parce Hardy in Breaux Bridge.

I certified 22 new senior applicants for the food for seniors which are donations made par l’Eglise Catholique. Hazel Theriot and Fred Zerringue oversee the program with Craig Guitroz and Oneal Guidry, Janet Perrodin and myself, who are all volunteers.

I took advantage running errands before coming back home.

I went by Brasseaux’s Nursery for potting soil and vegetable plants. Another lucky day for me, not only did I visit with our energetic seniors, Vivian gave me a muscadine and a raspberry plant for my early Mother’s Day gift.

She is so kind. I’ve been shopping with her since in the 1970s. Also, Mary Wager’s Country Gardens Nursery on Hwy 347. Love them both!

So, I went by the Tractor Supply store on Rees for four eight-feet high iron fence posts for the backyard, to attach chicken wire for my two new fruit plants pour les liane, aussi les cocombre.

Completion is done on the old funeral home in the heart of Henderson, and will be walking distance to the Henderson’s Book Fairy Learning Center. There’ll be library books, computers, space for tutoring, and a stage for story telling.

Story telling could be very interesting for the youngsters if seniors would participate in the stories from their past about their towns.

There’s an abundance of history to tell about their roots, and all the families who started it off many decades ago.

Thier past is still very prevalent today.

I enjoy driving through Henderson.

Some of my family married into the McGee family from here.

When I started coming to Henderson in the early 1950s, I remember seeing Irene Courville and Myrtle Serette. Everyone loved Jeff Hayes, who died at a very young age.

Henderson is very interesting, has an abundance of history for story telling and is a cool town.

I think everything about Henderson has character.

Who would have ever guessed she’d hold the title known as the “Gateway to the Atchafalaya Basin?”

Amétie à tout, Cousine Hélène, 228-1714, helenboudreaux@juno.com