Larry, Braden, Kelly, and I spent the week after Christmas in LA. I stayed at Mom’s in Loreauville, Larry stayed with Mama Dottie, and Braden and Kelly stayed at Murray and Carolyn Fuselier’s house in St. Martinville.
The weather was bitter cold. I was determined to pry AMD [Mom] off that couch, even if it meant I had to drag her on a walking trek through her house. We sat in her front living room gazing out of her picture window at the cane trucks driving by. We talked about the past, and I told her I wanted to buy Mom amd Pop Wick’s house and property so I could still have physical ties to Loreauville after she died. I hope that my siblings don’t take issue with that decision.
Rising at 5:30 a.m., I read, donned my workout clothes to attend morning classes at Baron Babineaux’s Health and Court Club in New Iberia. Monday, Mary’s zumba class kicked my butt. What a workout! Tuesday, Yoga with Shu Shu relaxed me as I listened to her orgasmic breaths after every stretch. Wednesday Cardio Kick proved a great work out with weights and bars. Thursday, more Zumba, and Friday, another class that I left drenched but feeling great.
After returning to Loreauville at 10:00, AMD was finally awake. She drank hot chocolate and did not touch breakfast I prepared for her. She listened as I told her about my workouts and the nice retired men I conversed with at Baron’s.
I dressed for the day; Kelly drove to meet me each morning at 11:00 so I could take her on a shopping tour in the area. We spent four hours at Ricky’s at Bayou Landing talking with Angela who helped us to find great bargains and stunning ensembles. After dropping a load of cash there, we drove to Lafayette to Academy where I purchased a camouflage jacket and belt to match my camouflage LSU hat and later found a sexy camouflage shirt at a Lafayette boutique. Wearing all this to the LSU Alumni Cotton Bowl viewing at Wild Wings in Roswell, GA this Friday.
We enjoyed lunch at another Broken Egg Café on 112 Rue Promenaden in Lafayette. After several dirty martinis, we headed back to New Iberia to run errands for AMD and hit a few other boutiques on Main Street.
En route to Loreauville, we stopped at that pharmacy near Joyce’s in St. Martinville to check out the fleur de lis inventory.
We both had to lean on the car trunk to close it as our purchases defied the space in my SUV.
New Year’s Eve we dined at Clementine and met Wayne Peltier, the owner. We joined Glenn and Julie Martin Oubre, and Kirk Crochet and his wife. My friend from the past, Bonnie Decuir sat next to our table with her husband and sons. We had a great reunion.
Charming restaurant. Wayne kept the integrity of the former restaurant as evidenced by the bar, ceilings, and other structures. The restaurant was named Clementine Dining & Spirits to pay tribute to owner Wayne Peltier's favorite artist, Clementine Hunter, a folk artist born in 1887 at Cane River, LA.
While working at Melrose Plantation, Clementine found tubes of paint lying around, beginning her life as an artist. Clementine would paint on whatever she could find. Her first painting was rendered on a window shade. Her paintings came from daily life on Melrose Plantation – baptisms, funerals, wash-days, and the harvesting of sugar cane are a few events that she documented. Clementine Hunter died in 1988 at the age of 101.
Clementine thought the normal C was rude, with its back to you, so she signed her C backwards with its arms reaching out for a hug. Wayne has incorporated her insignia into the placement of the silverware, which answers my question about the strange arrangement on our table.
I dined on roasted half duck topped with a spicy honey raspberry glaze set on a ppear and andouille hash with vegetable du jour. Delicious! The prices were very inexpensive as compared with fine dining in Atlanta.
We danced to music from our era provided by a DJ. Great time!
Saturday I served New Year’s dinner to 20 family members at AMD’s: pork loin, black eyed peas and rice [Hoppin John], steamed cabbage and ham, fromage potato casserole, green beans almondine, salad, and cheese garlic bread, peach cobbler and other desserts made by family members. AMD sat at the table for an hour. I could tell she was enjoying every minute with our family. Becky Vaughn and her sons, and Mark, Rona, Zack and Mattie Vaughn and their twin babies joined us.
Kelly and Braden left to return to Atlanta Saturday morning.
Larry and I left on Sunday morning.
Great visit.
her I wanted to buy Mom amd Pop Wick’s house and property so I could still have physical ties to Loreauville after she died. I hope that my siblings don’t take issue with that decision.
Rising at 5:30 a.m., I read, donned my workout clothes to attend morning classes at Baron Babineaux’s Health and Court Club in New Iberia. Monday, Mary’s zumba class kicked my butt. What a workout! Tuesday, Yoga with Shu Shu relaxed me as I listened to her orgasmic breaths after every stretch. Wednesday Cardio Kick proved a great work out with weights and bars. Thursday, more Zumba, and Friday, another class that I left drenched but feeling great.
After returning to Loreauville at 10:00, AMD was finally awake. She drank hot chocolate and did not touch breakfast I prepared for her. She listened as I told her about my workouts and the nice retired men I conversed with at Baron’s.
I dressed for the day; Kelly drove to meet me each morning at 11:00 so I could take her on a shopping tour in the area. We spent four hours at Ricky’s at Bayou Landing talking with Angela who helped us to find great bargains and stunning ensembles. After dropping a load of cash there, we drove to Lafayette to Academy where I purchased a camouflage jacket and belt to match my camouflage LSU hat and later found a sexy camouflage shirt at a Lafayette boutique. Wearing all this to the LSU Alumni Cotton Bowl viewing at Wild Wings in Roswell, GA this Friday.
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