Monday :-(

Its Monday, that is bad enough. Look outside and rain clouds are forming. Get into the office and start up the computer only to be greated by this:

Not a good sign for this week...

He is risen, He is risen indeed

Joan and I went to sunrise service this morning. For such a special day seeing the sunrise while giving thanks is always inspiration and divine.

"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see."

Smokin' Lizards

Joan was out cleaning up the backyard. She took the rain lid off of the chimenia and there where our little gecko friends hanging out underneath. Kind of ironic since the lid has a lizard scupltor on it. She started the fire to burn twigs and such and these guys didn't show any interest in leaving. Maybe they like the warmth. You can see one guy here even crawling into the chimney...

HOB

Finally I made it to the House of Blues. After many attempts that fell appart for one reason or another this one finally came through. I went to see the North Mississippi Allstars and they were excellent. Good place (smoke free!) and good music.

LSU Basketball



Its been a tough year. LSU finished in the final 4 two years ago and then in last place of the SEC west last year. This year didn't look much better as a rough start with injurys, academic problems, and finally a fired coach. But give Butch Pierre some credit, after all of tha LSU managed to finished 4th in the west ahead of Alabama and Auburn.



The SEC tournament starts Thursday!

Louisiana Blooms

I was in Louisiana on the first weekend of March. It was still brown here and snow storms to come. But in Louisiana it was warm and sunny. Spring had started and many things were blooming already:

I love the spring and I'm ready for it to kick in here.

SNOW


Yesterday we were suppose to get snow in the evening. But about 9:30 my guy at the Eagle Mountain test site calls in and tells me he is getting out of there because he has an inch of ice on the test house! I look out the window and nothing here yet. Went into my 11 meeting and get called by Joan asking if she should bail out of school. So I look out the window again and its snowing! Yikes! So she smartly gets home and I wait a little longer. Well, maybe I waited a little too long, the drive home was no fun at all. It took an hour and a half to go 35 miles... next time I'll be quicker on the gettting out.


The view cruising up I35W at 5mph


A lovely view of Texas Motor Speedway


A crazy week, this was the second snow storm after the one we had on Tuesday.

Louisiana Eats

I went to the annual family meeting this weekend. One thing that is great about Louisiana is the food. Here is Saturday's run down:

Breakfast

The day starts of with the traditional Louisiana breakfast of Beingets and Cafe au Lait.

Lunch

Delicious Crawfish Etouffe over rice.

Dinner

Fried Gulf shrimp with rice dressing and toast. Here you see whats left of it. The shrimp dinner from Tiger is very generous, this tray was packed full of shrimp at the start.

So many wonderful flavors all in one single day. I'm already craving this stuff again.