A Weather Question

November 2014

We used to figure out the temperature in Ville Platte out by taking the temperatures in Alexandria, and hour north of town, and Lafayette, an hour south, and finding the number that was in the middle of them. I was entertained to hear them talking about this same system on La Tasse this week:

"The weather says it was 32 in Lafayette, 31 in Elek, and 28 in Ville Platte, now can you explain that? Moi j'connais pas mais des fois...tu peux figurer... Elek c'est dans une bassière, ça fait, ça restes plus froid là bas des fois.  Mais pour figurer...on prends la température à Lafayette et la température à L'Alexandrie et on va dans le mileu tu connais? On est un peu près halfway entre les deux places..."

Temp in VP according to this method? 76.5 F !

No More Birds

The Tasse de Cafe Radio Progam often asks public questions such as: Do you remember 1946? Was it a good year?  Do you remember White Rose Petroleum Jelly? We got any celebrity birthdays today? Do you know how old Ozzy Osbourne is today? How much did it rain last night in Vidrine as opposed to Belair Cove? What is a zouienne? How does one say hickey en francais? Do you remember Ferlin Husky? Why do thermometers read different temperatures, even when they are next to one another?Anybody remembers those things?

Most of these questions are answered by the faithful callers at one time or another, but there is one that has been hanging around. Where have all the birds gone? People call in to say how years back there were many birds in the trees, robins and cedar wax wings and little fou-fous, blue-jays, etc. and that now you don't hardly see them any anymore. They say, "y'a pas d'caille! y'a pas d'bee-egg! y'a pas d'kill-dee...just some mockingbirds and crows!"

"I called about the birds. We had a beautiful blue-jay in the back yard. He showed up on Thursday, I saw him on ma patio, oh! I was so excited. Well, on Sunday morning, I get up and come outside on the patio to have a cup of coffee, ma white cat had em. That was it, no more bird now! Il l'attrapé et pis il l'épluché!"

Then there is this exchange: Buck-a-Dial "Faux Pas"

More Bird Notes:

Charatte   
Le Geai Bleu et le Killdeer 
Random Bird Notes   
Gumbo Tchoc
The Cardinal Blues 
Bird Sounds of the Prairie

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Merci Bayou des Hommes 

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Café Chauvage

Mot du Jour... dessus ça là-là. Mark... Jétais pas trop sur, j'étais pas trop décidé... y'en a si tant des mots on aime parler pour mais, j'ai choisi "coffee"
 coffee?
Mais, la tasse de café!

ouais! les...coffee beans...les grains de cafécoffee can, un cafetière
un cofee cup,
une tasse?
cope- de café,
I would say une tasse
et, uh, ouais un tasse de café...ok, on va prendre, on v'aller plus, plus ça z'autres en connait pour dessus ça icitte là-là.
et y'an a d'autres..allons 'oir...uh, coffee grinder!
-mouleuse?
-ein moulin à café
-ein moulin!
le coffee grounds
le marc à café
 et coffee milk- mais, tu connais ça, un café au lait
t'en a bu plus qu'un goblet de ça!
I think I have yeah...when I was much younger
yeah, now how bout coffee spiked with whiskey?
heh! big smile on his face.. well, what is it charlie?
un pousse-café!
I've heard that before!
un pousse-café! hehehe tu peux dire (?) quclquechose d'autre...
ohh j'vas dire qui, on habitude de faire ça, mom, mom aurait, alle auriat rôti ses coffee beans-les 'coute, ça sentait dans tout le voisinage!
 Alle avait fini ça-la, c'était notre tour  on moulait ça dans un tit moulere-là, mais 'coute! Ça aimait leur café! C'est du café different! On va aretter droite là-là Marc, parce que ça dit, le wild coffee plant- indigo! J'connais pas. Uh.. j'connais pas comment tu appelles ça.
j'connais y'un parole pour les plantes- pour les coffee weeds! dessus ça là-là. allons 'oir si on peux trouver ça peut-être, et si ça

To Redell

She's so moody

Loom at the old Lafayette Hardware

      

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