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Last weekend I decided to clean out my old recipe box. It’s a small metal index card box crammed full of 44 years of recipes and it badly needed sorting and/or culling. When my Daughter and Son were little they would take the little stickers off of fruit and vegetables that we bought at the grocery and stick them on my little box when we got home. AND It is now completely covered in them!

I was able to clean and organize it a little and curiously found several old comics and cartoons having to do with cooking stuff that I’d saved. I think I’m gonna put them all in a frame and to hang in the kitchen. Looking through old recipes I found an old one from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate’s series by Emeril Lagasse called “Sautéed Chicken Breasts With Dijon Herb Sauce.” Doesn’t that sound good? The “Herb Sauce” calls for Tarragon which I hadn’t ever cooked with so that meant the project was a GO for Saturday.

Most people that have studied history through the years have questioned certain points or thoughts that are generally accepted or projected as ideas. Abraham Lincoln has been presented as an agnostic or even atheist president in religion.

By chance I came into possession of a Mobile, Alabama newspaper article that was 100 years old and written by Thomas B. McGregor, Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky. Evidently Mr. McGregor had wondered about Lincoln’s religious affiliation or lack thereof. Also, evidently proven that Lincoln was reared in the Baptist Church. Most of the religious mystery of he and his parent religious life was found in the deerskin covered ledger of the Little Pigeon Church where Mr. McGregor found that Thomas Lincoln, Abe’s father, acted as Moderator and was a pillar of the Little Pigeon church near Lincoln City, in Spinder County, Indiana.

Mansfield of old would not be recognizable today. The transportation was by horseback, buggy or wagon and people did not travel to Shreveport or other distant places unless it was absolutely necessary.

Logansport, 22 miles in distance, was a twoday affair. Many of the people would get up and leave by wagon to pay their taxes in Mansfield, which was the Parish Seat, and ladies would shop for dress material, lace, etc. After shopping they would return to a campground just west of Atwood’s on the left side of U.S. 84. Reading one account of the family camping told of Dr. Stribling (built the Milton Baker house) stopping by for coffee. The campers would cook breakfast and be on the way back to Logansport by six o’clock.

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Birds of Louisiana and Mississippi – by Stan Tekiela If you are new to birdwatching, one of the first things you need is some type of book to help you identify each species. I love the Audubon book series, but they tend to group the birds into more general areas. There isn’t a book out (yet) that is specifically geared towards birds in Louisiana, much less regional areas. But Birds of Louisiana and Mississippi, by Stan Tekiela at least narrows it down a bit.

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I attended the beautiful wedding Saturday of Dakota and Sierra Williams at the beautiful Coyote Creek Barn.

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My two teenage sons get especially annoyed with how much I pamper my two miniature schnauzers. It’s kind of comical, actually. I have two schnauzers — a boy and a girl — named Kaiser and Charli (short for “Charlotte”). Their fur is mostly black, and they are half-siblings. I know I’m biased, but they are positively adorable, exceptionally smart, and incredibly loyal.

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