Some Silly Things . . .

Mardi Gras is on March 8 this year. My birthday is March 9. So it is on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Really an asupicous beginning this year.

Looks like the Morrison family business meeting is going to be on March 5th. If not the 5th then it will be on the 12th. So I am figuring it will be on the 5th. That will be a trip to New Roads on that weekend.

I have been looking at establishing a web page for the W. C. Morrison family. Lots of stuff can be published and it would be a nice place to host a lot of family trivia. Lord knows, we have a ton of family trivia going back to Jacob Haight Morrison. Some of it has got to be made up but for the most part it is all true. And to think my family were new comers to Pointe Coupee Parish.

Judie's family goes back to literally the beginning of the history of Pointe Coupee, the Gremillion's ancestor was a soldier at Fort DePointe Coupee. That is back into the early 1700s. The Morrison's did not show up until 1856 at Brunswick Plantation.

Brunswick passed on to the Thibauts in the 1930s but my Grandfather had long ago split his share off and it became Angeles Plantation, still in existence to this day. It is now known as the Morrison Farm, Inc. And that is the annual family business meeting conducted on the first weekend of March of every year.

The business meeting is more than just a stock holders session, it is a family gathering. We never know who all will attend, sometimes long lost cousins show up. They are most welcome visitors. We have a grand meal and share our bread with all comers. It is not a big affair but it is a warm affair, warm in that it is family.

Till then . . .

Its Cold . . .

Brrrr. It was 19.2 this AM at 7:15, I went out to get the paper and there was frost on the plastic cover. Apprently the dew froze on the thin plastic cover. To me that is cold.

I can remember it being colder in Ohio but then I was younger and ready to challenge the cold. Now I am ready to sit under my electric "throe" and stay warm.

It is supposed to warm up to the 40s to day and 60s tomorrow. That will be nice. Realy don't like this cold weather.

Good that we did not have moisture with the cold, don't need an ice storm. All that slick would drive these Texans crazy and lead to many auto accidents. They seem to drive at one speed - fast. No thoughts of driving at a reduced rate. Just does not enter their minds.

Another milestone passed. Jack Borden, a lawyer here in Weatherford, died. Jack practiced up to the day he died. So what is significant. Well Jack Borden was 102 years old. Quite a character, once mayor of Weatherford, ex-FBI agent from the WW-II era and even his wife, long since passed away, was a lawyer (though she never practiced law). His law partner was his nephew - he too is already in his sixties. Jack even had a street, albeit a short one, named after him.

Life goes on . . .

"Snowing"

Snowing to beat the band now. Started about noon mixed with rain, now at 1:00 PM all snow. Nothing sticking - yet. Birds are all hiding.

Saw a couple of Cardinals feeding this AM in the rain. But they do not fly while it is snowing unless it is a dire emergency.

The snow has a sort of Northern slant to it. So I guess there is a little breeze to help get down. Not even sticking to the roofs - yet.

Just a mess.

"Hoopla . . ."

The new Congress has been sworn in and all kinds of hoopla is boiling up. The Dems are saying the Reps have to come over and agree with them. I don't think so, that is patent BS. If the Reps have a majority in the house and vote together there is nothing the Dems can do about it. And they know it.

So they are all out trying to make it look like they still have the power, they don't.

I think some reasonableness shall return, at least for a while. I think the Reps will relish cutting the budget everywhere they can but mostly in Obamacare. Yes, some of it is destine to remain but the most part is going to go down the drain of no funds to execute.

Saw where another Federal Judge in Virginia this time strike down part of the Obamacare mandating the purchase of insurance. That is the second Federal Judge to do so, the first was in Florida. That may speak doom for the entire bill as the Dems neglected to add a clause that if part of the bill is unconstitutional the rest can go on. Since they left that out, it the Supreme Court agrees with the original finding, Obamacare is toast.

Yep, lots of hoopla gonna is go on. And that is probably a good thing. Checks and balances in play again, the super majority is gone. And the Dems are barely holding on in the Senate.