Butte La Rose Et Les Entourage
Allô et bonjour.
The moon has been increasing this week and shining ever so bright from my window. The brightness reflects on the new leaves in the woods around my camp. The air is so fresh and clean. Water is rising in the Basin. The weather was perfect for Good Friday’s Way of the Cross.
There were many new people taking part in the 9½ mile journey and not all were from Catahoula. Many of us shared and carried the cross which symbolized Jesus’ death. The oldest in the group was 88-year-old Shine Theriot and the youngest was Sydni Duplechain, daughter of Bethany and Felix from Loreauville. Some walkers had ill health. And some had walking difficulties. But they were walking all the same for their love of Jesus Christ. Don Akers, age 77, made the walk for his first time. Tim Boudreaux journeyed and helped carry the cross. Some of them who could not make the walk prayed in their yards as we went by and others prayed at home.
Shirley Akers issues a message that District Attorney Phil Haney is presenting a free Senior Education Seminar for Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes on Tuesday, April 15, at the Pavilion, Cypress Bayou Casino in Charenton from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be door prizes and a lunch will be provided. The topic will be updated information on senior citizens issues. Limited seating is available so call the St. Martin Parish Council on Aging at 332-3063 for reservations. (April 9 is the deadline to R.S.V.P.) See ya’ll there!
I have wondered why the doves on my porch crow like roosters. Well, at six one Sunday morning as I was leaving to go to church, I found out. The radio on my porch stays tuned to KROF 24/7. Camey Doucet’s rooster was crowing on his early morning radio show. The doves have learned to mimic that rooster.
Seeing the rest of the business places on Main Street in St. Martinville happen will be a long overdue prayer come true. When you’re downtown you might check out the improvements and construction happening there. There’s a lot of time, planning, effort, hard work and money being spent in those old buildings full of history and mystery from the past. And this is all coming back to life for us to appreciate and bring us back in time and share our roots with our grandkids. The other towns around here are unique in their own ways and moving forward also. I always write about visitors coming here but when they arrive almost everything here is shut down.
When I run the Herman Dupuis Road and as I see that beautiful yard completely surrounded with all colors of azaleas, I am reminded of when W.E. and Eloise Gean lived there long ago. She loved to work her yard and never did she go anywhere without coming home with her Cadillac loaded down with more plants and potting soil and fertilizers. I’d often help her with potting plants.
Every year for their anniversary, W.E. would have a diamond added to her wedding ring as one of his tokens of love for her. One day she lost that ring. She told me that she had lost weight and that it was possible it had just slipped off her finger. She’d planted azaleas in the back of her house and thought that was where she had lost it. We dug everything up and I suggested maybe she’d lost it in a potted plant. She insisted no. She grieved over the loss of that treasured ring that no amount of money could have replaced. She took that grief to her grave. She was about 75 then.
I was told a couple of years ago her ring had been found in one of her potted plants not long after her death. I know her spirit embraces her yard still because her heart and soul is there.
Amitié à tout.
Cousine Hélène
Contact Helen Boudreaux, the Teche News’ Butte La Rose area correspondent, at helenboudreaux@juno.com.