You plan for years, and then there's no crawfish.

This May we're having a big 90th birthday party in Louisiana and it was supposed to be a crawfish boil with all the sides. Time to make a Plan B!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/climate/louisiana-crawfish-disaster-us-climate/index.html

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration Wednesday for the state’s critical crawfish industry, as extreme weather disrupted this year’s harvest and triggered a shortage of the tiny crustaceans.

Louisiana is the country’s top producer of crawfish – a staple in Gulf Coast cuisine such as crawfish étouffée, gumbos and po-boys. The brick-red creatures have been harvested commercially in Louisiana since the 1800s, and the industry brings in more than $300 million for the state’s economy each year.

Before and after pictures using Barkeepers Friend.

I bought a whole set of Franciscan Desert Rose dishes for $10 because they were marked and crazed. I tried bleach and baking soda with vinegar with no luck. I thought Barkeepers Friend would just be like Comet. What a surprise! (I don't sell it and I'm not affiliated with it in any way.) It's not perfect, but now they're usable.

I always check DU's Facebook page when DU is down, but it's not used for updates.

Seems like a lot of us would congregate and warm our hands around the fire while we wait, but activity there is scarce.

Soooo excited! Just got tickets to see Dionne Warwick in April.

Really good seats at a reasonable price, at the Lowell (MA) Auditorium. I never thought I'd see her before one of us died!

Curb Your Enthusiasm gave out a real working phone number,

instead of the usual 555-. I googled it and it's a Home Depot in Atlanta, where last night's episode was set. It's a clever plot assist, but I wonder how many hang-up calls they're getting.

Usher on roller skates! I liked his show. Yes, I know you didn't.

I just sealed my ballot for the Massachusetts Democratic Primary which will be held on March 5.

President Biden will carry my state easily then and in the general election, but my little drop of water in the ocean is not without meaning. A vote is a vote is a vote.

I hate to say it, but I think The Connors may have jumped the shark.

(No spoilers)

New season started tonight. To me, not much was funny, the plot was not believable, and my favorite actors on the show just seemed off.

I'll keep watching but I hope it gets better.

Toby Keith, less than five months till death, sings Don't Let the Old Man In.

It's hard for me to separate a person's politics from his talent (Eric Clapton is ruined for me) but I just heard this song for the first time and it speaks to me as I try to forget my age.

A country song for the old folks. An atheist for 60 years, I can remember

Mamaw's Bible with the thin pages and fancy colored capital letters, and going to the little Baptist church through the woods on a summer night in Northern Louisiana.