Bumper Sticker Beliefs

Evidently, if you have something you believe, you put it on a bumper sticker.

Like this and this too!

Cajun Condiments

Salt and pepper make cajuns yawn, and ketchup is in the background of the above picture for a reason. Here we rely on the stars of the picture~ gumbo file' and Tabasco.

Gumbo File'~ (Pronounced Fee-Lay). File' powder, made from the dried leaves of sassafras trees that grow wild along the coast of the Gulf Of Mexico, was discovered and used by the Choctaw Indians long before the Acadians (Cajun's) reached Louisiana. When used in a gumbo, it imparts a delicate flavor somewhat similar to that of thyme, and a spoonful or so thickens stock into the kind of rich gravy that a genuine gumbo must have. But the cook must be careful: file' powder will become stringy if it is allowed to boil (the word file' may have come from the French word for "thread") and should be added only at the last possible minute. It's a sin to eat gumbo without file'. (from purecajun.com)

Tabasco Sauce~ made right near here at Avery Island. Check THIS out.

I Love Cows.

I'm not saying I want to own any, or be responsible for any, or feed any, or sell any, or butcher any. Let me be more specific~ I love to look at cows. And old barns.

More Acadiana-specific posts to come. I know the last several posts could be pictures taken anywhere, but it is where I live and I love it!

Remain In Him...

or you might be a dead branch!


John 15:1-8 (NIV)

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Merry Christmas Mardi Gras

Remember this~ (original post here)

This is an easy excuse to keep that Christmas tree up a little while longer. Turn it into a Mardi Gras tree. Same alligator works for either season, after all....this is Louisiana!

De-Throned

Quite a collection laying by the side of the road.

Whose idea is the wooden toilet seat anyhow!?!? Yikes.