Cenla Focus – About Town

About Town Andrea and Donna I am off for the summer, but I came in to work while Vivian is at Grandma’s house, to help out my employer.   I was flipping through the Cenla Focus and saw my picture…hahaha.  This totally cracked me up.  I knew the photographer was buzzing around but I didn’t know [...]

Religion

This is a very interesting post and worth a read. Don’t know much about religion? You’re not alone, study finds Odds are that you know Mother Teresa was Catholic, but what religion is the Dalai Lama? How about Maimonides? And – no Googling – what’s the first book of the Bible? How about the first [...]

Dear Dell: Quit calling me!

Dear Dell, Please avail yourself of a pencil and some paper.  Ok.  Now that you are ready, please take note of the following: No, I do not want to purchase any additional programs, insurance, payment protection, fraud protection or plant a tree. No, I do not want to take a survey regarding the level of [...]

Thursday at 1:24 p.m.

All right, so I admit it, I am a nosy old broad.  Unfortunately, the way my mind works, I cannot get something out of my head until I reconcile it one of two ways.  1: That it makes sense, factual sense; 2. The mystery gets solved.  So, what is truck 1301 doing in front of [...]

Alexandria City Truck 1301

Upon closer perusal, I note that the truck parked in front of my neighbor’s house periodically is not a regular trash truck.  It appears to be a special trash truck, maybe for special pick ups.  Not sure.  Anyway, they were parked in front of my neighbor’s house today, talking to him.  My neighbor went in [...]

Town Talk Out-scooped

In September of 2004, I gladly traded the one horse town without a horse [Provencal] for a two horse town [Alexandria]. Even though Alexandria has a decent sized population, apparently we are just not newsworty enough to write about….or write for…for that matter. Around January, I discontinued my subscription to the Town Talk. Besides the [...]

Projects – 2008 in Review

I was sitting around trying to think about what we did all year.  It seems like 2008 was a slow year for us as far as the DIY scene was concerned.  In the early part of the year, around March, we spent a lot of time getting construction bids and filling out mountains of paperwork for [...]