One of the jobs we had to tackle was to erect the rebuilt flag pole. A fine older gentleman up the road from ABC took the old pole, which had rusted off at the base and fallen, add a counter weight and weld it all together. Larry wire brushed and painted the pole while I started preparing the new hole to plant it in.
We couldn't use the same place as the old pole occupied since there was a four foot deep HARD concrete chunk in the ground so we cut a new hole just down the sidewalk, sawed out the sidewalk, persuading the last pieces with the sledge, then dug a four foot deep hole of our own.
We then set the pole base and finished the concrete around it.
The next day we hung the pole on the base so Larry could touch up the places we scratched on the trip from the shed to erection location.
While the concrete and paint was drying I put a new coat of paint in the fountain which we had repaired. I say we repaired it but what we really had to do was cut off the pipe in the yard and build a fill site outside the fountain since we determined the leak from the fountain was coming from a broken pipe or joint under the fountain.
When we were all through raising the pole and attaching the flag we had a flag raising. Wonderful isn't it. God has truly blessed the United States.
On the weekend we decided to clean up some weeds which were growing around the foundation of the North Eunice Baptist Church which we are attending.
To insure that the cleanup would last a while we added a 6" wide strip of Roundup to the cleanup.
Then we visited the city of Jennings to see an art gallery. There was nearly as much art on the buildings as there was in the gallery. It amazes me how someone can draw these enormous murals and do it so well.
Compared to Billie the engine is the size of the real thing.
Of course, Eunice has it's share of murals as well.
This last weekend we made a trip south to the gulf. Hurricane Rita really devastated this whole area. Now almost of the houses and businesses are perched on ten to twelve food poles. Some of then are single wides---
---and some are very large structures. The drawback would come when we get old enough that we can no longer climb those stairs.
Along the banks of the canal we saw a number of gators sunning themselves. They were, for the most part, on the other side of the canal.
When we arrived at the Rockefeller State Wildlife Refuge we were greeted by this beautiful platform.
The refuge is a very large swamp extending from Highway 82 to the gulf.
It is full of all kinds of wildlife. Coots---
---ibis, ducks and geese.
In order to get to Holly Beach we had to take a ferry across Calcasieu Lake. Some of the residents of the lake we not really all that impressed with the ferry.
They do a lot of shipbuilding and working with the off shore rigs all along the coast.
When we got to Holly Beach we had to collect a few samples of the shells found there.
From the shore, with an 800mm lens, one can see a number of off shore platforms.
Right on the beach the residents decided that 10 or 12 feet wasn't high enough so they went up 20.
On our trip home we passed through Lake Charles and crossed this bridge over Lake Charles. This one has no flat spot at the top, just up then down.
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