This is the 28th year that the Stuhr Museum has held the Fantasy of Trees. Local organizations and community member displays decorated trees.
I took the opportunity to view the trees this year.
I also brought with me my new 360 camera. This is just a test to see how it come out.
I have fallen way behind posting to my site. Since August, I have had a lot of experience and hopefully with the new year I will be able to catch up and post some new experiences.
All of my “good” cookbooks were lost in the 2016 Great Flood Of Louisiana, so I have spent numerous minutes looking at recipes, trying to come up with something good. I have been inspired by several websites.
This is my low-carb pizza:
Ingredients:
1 large egg beaten
1/2 tsp of Italian Seasoning
1/2 cup of Pizza Cheese (grated mozzarella and cheddar cheese mixture)
7 slices of pepperoni
Olive oil flavor Cooking spray
Heat small (8″) skillet over medium/high heat. Beat together large egg and Italian Seasoning in small bowl. When skillet is hot, spray with cooking spray and pour in egg. Adjust skillet so the egg is cooking evenly. Turn on the oven’s Hi boiler. Sprinkle the cheese evenly over the egg mixture. The egg does not need to be cooked all the way before adding cheese. Place pepperoni on cheese. Cooking until the cheese is mostly melted and the peperoni has a glimmer.
Remove skillet from heat and place under the boiler. Let cook under boiler until desire crispiness. Watch closely, it will only take a couple of minutes until done. Remove from broiler. Make sure everything is turned off.
Place on a plate, cut, and serve.
It’s a good think I have a tester to try out all my creations.
My 3600 miles adventure over 22 days ended abruptly when my home town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana flooded. Today, is the first day in 6 weeks that I have had some free time to do something I wanted to do. Not, something that needed to be done.
I was in Marshall, Texas helping my niece and sister-in-law out with their Back to School Bash. It was a gorgeous day in Marshall; clear skies and hot.
About 10 a.m. that morning, August 12, I got word that my parents house had water in it. My mother was working on getting the water up, before it caused to much damage. The water was from flash flooding that was occurring all over the area. Later, I heard the water was being pushed into their house by boat wakes as they were rescuing residents from the back of the subdivision. A few hours later the water went down. My mother, father, and niece worked until 11 p.m. that day drying out the floors.
A was suppose to go back to Baton Rouge the next day and spend the weekend, then go to the beach. But, talking with family and looking at the weather reports, I concluded it was too dangerous to travel to south Louisiana. Thirty inches of rain in 24 hours was devastating South Louisiana. All the cities along I-10 between I-49 (Lafayette) and Slidell were flooding. I really did not have to be back in Baton Rouge for 9 days. I could not help anyone while the roads were flooded. So, I headed back to Nebraska.
On my drive back to Nebraska, I got word that my sister’s house was flooding. And, then I learned that my brother, his wife, and their 4 kids walked out of their subdivision through flooded streets. Lastly, I heard that my parents had to abandon their homes because all the rain that occurred north of them was headed south and overflowing all the ponds, creeks, and rivers. When my family left their houses, they only brought a change of clothes with them. They truly believed that they would only have a few inches of water in their houses. They were wrong.
A lot of people have said; “It’s Louisiana, doesn’t it rain and flood like this in Louisiana.” The answer is “NO!” Saying it floods all the time in Louisiana, and we should be use to it. Is like saying Nebraska has tornados all the time and they should be use to it. I’ve heard this morning parts of the Midwest was dealing with flooding because it had received over 10″ of rain over 3 days. That amount of rainfall, Louisiana could have handled. Nowhere in Louisiana in the last 100 – 1000 years has 30 inches rain has falling in 24 hours.
To describe how bad it was, people traveling on I-10 between Baton Rouge and Slidell was trapped on the Interstate overpass for 36 hours because of flooding. My cousin was one of those people trapped, and when he got home he found his house was flooded too.
In June, I sold my house in Baton Rouge and stored all my furniture most of my belonging. Four days after the flooding began, I got word that the place where I stored everything was taking on water. I hoped for a few inches like everyone else, but I had this image in my head.
A week after the flooding began, I got an email from the Storage company saying that the units had to be cleaned out in 48 hours. I was still two hours away from Baton Rouge and felt that I could not ask any family member to help, because they were dealing with the own mess. So, I called the movers. I must have sounded pathic, because they agreed to meet me the following day.
Unfortunately, my storage unit had about 30″ of water in it. The furniture was damage beyond what I could repair myself and I had no where to store it. It was abandoned. But, this wasn’t the most heartbreaking part.
There was some small victories. I saved my star certificate, even though it was underwater. And, the table I finished faired well.
Losing all the books and the pictures I never got to scanning was the biggest lost.
At this point I just stopped taking pictures. I could no longer capture the devastation, because I was too busy sorting out my mess and helping my family deal with their mess. Then I realized, I didn’t take one picture of my parent house. This is a picture after it was gutted. I am grateful that God sent some gentlemen from the Convent Church of Shreveport, LA to clean and gut my parents house.
Oh, while I was in Baton Rouge, my 17 year old niece (who was sleeping on a couch in a storage shed) announced that she thought it was for her benefit that she come and live with me in Nebraska. It would be the best solution. Since all of her family members house flooded and her school flooded. We enrolled her in school and this is her first full week.
My parents house had 44″ of water. My brother’s house had water to their mailbox. My sister’s house had 23″ of water.
I must say, that after everything I have witnessed and experience: People in South Louisiana are truly amazing.
The citizens of Paris, TX are proud of the historic home that is located in their city, the Sam Bell Maxey House. It was built in 1868 and was left untouched by the fire of 1916 that destroyed the town.
Rock City is located in Minneapolis, Kansas. The huge rocks are sandstone concretions. It a nice area, but bring your insect spray and use it. It located in a field ripe with big rocks and tiny bugs.
Off the Interstate, down the road, over a river, next to a park, lies the Wichita Gardens. Statues standing guard, flowers blooming every where, fish swimming in the ponds, and a dragon running through the Chinese Gardens.
Housed in the mist of the gardens is a toy train which run along it’s railroad town and comes with it’s own conductor. All aboard!
Located off of one of the busiest street in Baton Rouge, you will find Bluebonnet Swamp. It was a nice morning for a walk.
Or, laying in the sun.
When visiting the swamp remember to:
My father-in-law has shown very interested in the 3D printing. Asking questions about how it works and what can it print. Before Father’s Day, I sat down in from of the computer and said “What can I print for my father-in-law? He plays dominoes every Friday! I can do that!”
I looked up the dimensions for Dominoes; design the dominoes; and created the case to look like a domino.
His own personalized dominoes. I also printed a set for my dad for Father’s Day with his last name on them.
The .stl files can be downloaded from youmagine.com.
https://www.youmagine.com/designs/dominoes/embed
The Cohn Arboretum in Baton Rouge, the official name “Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum” is one of the most beautiful places in Baton Rouge. In the middle it has a pond and surrounded by walking path and trees. There is even a grapes being grown. If they fix up the house with period pieces, this place would be historic.
On Easter Sunday in 1970, the Baton Rouge Zoo first opened to the public. A lot of credit is due to Bill Black, a.k.a Buckskin Bill, who was a popular children’s TV host. He would end his program everyday saying “Baton Rouge needs a zoo.” He encourage children to collect pennies and donate them so the Zoo could purchase an elephant. The children would line up outside the studio to donate the pennies they collected. The campaign was so successful, the children collected enough money to buy two elephants. One of the elephants was named Penny.
There are currently no elephants at the zoo. When one of the last two died, the other was ship off to another zoo so it would not be lonely.
The zoo is located in Louisiana, so of course, there are alligators.
This alligator look big and mean enough to go through the fence if he was hungry.
The trip to the zoo was worth it, just to get this picture.
I caught these birds doing… well I will give you a hint. They are in a nest.
This little one decided to pose for me while I was standing there.
It a very pretty area. A nice area to walk around, or take the train.
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