After all our anxiety about the “devastating” hurricane, we ended up with absolutely no effects at all in our area – we didn’t even lose electricity. We did lose Internet for a few hours, and there were some interesting winds late Monday afternoon, and we lost a couple of somewhat big tree branches, but that’s …
Well folks, it looks like we are in the crosshairs for Hurricane Gustav. We’ve been closely watching the weather channels, and it’s pretty much focalized on our area, but as we know, that can change anytime. Everyone around here has had the pre-hurricane jitters for the last few days. Everyone’s really calm, and there’s a …
Gueydan has one really big festival each year – the Duck Festival (the town bills itself as the Duck Capital of America). The festival and parade are a really big deal hereabouts, and draw people from quite a distance. They’ve got duck-calling contests, skeet shooting contests, a beauty pageant (there’s a queen for nearly every …
Of course, it’s not just the services that define a town, it’s the people, and the people have been the biggest reason we’ve stayed here so long (okay, the food is great, the music is great, there’s always something to do, we’re in a great house, and the weather has been near perfect the last …
Surrounded by rice farming, crawfish ponds, and cattle ranches, and billing itself as the “Duck Capital of America”, Gueydan is a small town of 1200 people, on Hwy 14. It’s 24 miles west of Abbeville, 12 miles east of Lake Arthur. As the crow flies, it’s about 20 miles inland (north) from the coast, and …
We really miss Fred; he’s become a big part of our lives, so we’ll take any chance we can to see him. One Sunday we made arrangements to come and see him in Abbeville. We agreed that we’d ride over on our bikes (about 24 miles), fly with him in the afternoon, and then he’d …
Ultralight and Rm Aerobatics (day trip to Abbeville) Read More »
A chance to see a small private rice mill in operation? How could we turn that down? Jamie Gayle, of Duck Capital Computers and Patti’s Book Nook, managed to arrange a private tour for us of Stansel Rice Mill, and on Chelsea’s birthday, no less. Located only a mile north of Gueydan, the rice mill …
July 20th, 2008 Since we were still in the area, we talked Fred into coming to visit us in the ultralight so we could get another flight – not knowing how long we’d be there. There was quite a bit of searching as we tried to find someplace he could land. The local crop dusters …
White Lake In July 2002 the oil company BP-Amoco donated a 71,000-acre wildlife preserve known as the White Lake Property to the State of Louisiana. White Lake is managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Used as a hunting preserve by BP-Amoco, it’s an area of freshwater marshes, some pastureland, and cropland suitable …
Seeing the Sights – White Lake, Lacassine, Oak Grove Read More »
We told Max about the resident mouse in the house, and on Sunday (after attending church services next door) he took us to Dollar General to buy cleaning supplies and mousetraps. He bought bleach, scrub pads and toilet bowl cleaner. We supplied some pieces of old cheddar cheese and Max set the mousetraps before he …
