Friday, August 17, 2012
Details from La Maison in "les grands zabs"
We live out in the country, la campagne, les grands zabs. My husband built our Acadian-style house with the help of friends and family. We moved one central room from a century-old cypress shack in Mire and built onto it using salvaged lumber from old houses and barns. I think that my husband has touched every nail in every board of the place. I love living here, but having grown up a city girl at the edge of Ville Platte, it did take me years to learn how to live far out here in les grands herbes (the tall grass), les éronces (the briars/sticks), les finfifonds (the finest end of the furthest ends) and to accept that the house, like anything, is always in progress. And also that the grass stays tall!
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That's a very nice place. Country life is the good life. La ville is quiet too now, since they outlawed the boom boom, however, I deliver beer in "'da woods" and I hear beaucoup boom boom. lol. Seriously, though, that's a cool home ya'll got. I have to work in Eunice but I'll try to talk with Paw Paw about that Fontenot situation. I heard a little on tasse de cafe Wednesday but not all. Have a bon weekend Prairie Femme!
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ReplyDeletemoi j'crois oui. merci.
ReplyDeleteMoi aussi j'viens d'la prairie, mais de la Saskatchewan au Canada. On va dire qu'y'a moins de bayou...J'aime votre maison et votre blogue! merci de nous partager ça! Je vais en Louisiane en décembre avec ma famille et on a très très hâte de découvrir votre monde! En attendant, j'vais lire votre blogue! Merci encore.
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