Some of you might remember, about a year ago, I posted something about doing some survey work for some alligator farmers that were being filmed for a TV series.
Well, I was watching "Pawn Stars" with the kids and saw the first commercial for the new series that begins this Sunday Night.
They are good people and live a couple of miles away from us.
Ponchatoula Swamp People
I think I may just watch this. It looks interesting. 🙂
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...this northerner knows.
I though YOU was the swamp people, Dan!;-)
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Well, kinda, sorta.
These folks make their living off the swamp, we only live next to it.
But I must say my wife is really falling in love with the swamp since she started going back to school for her masters degree.
She is involved in many swamp related projects with the local university and would would love to have a camp back in the swamp, so would I.
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Dan,
You can keep the skeeters. I can deal with the gators and mocs. Can't stand those infernal skeeters.
SJ
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They make this spray stuff for that.
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At the beginning of this video is his future camp site.
Tyler the dog.
We will be surveying this site during the winter.
The fellow talking keeps my freezer supplied with alligator meat.
His dog Tyler is a Louisiana Catahoula, we have a female of the same breed.
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> Dan,
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> You can keep the skeeters. I can deal with the gators and mocs. Can't stand those infernal skeeters.
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> SJ
Me too. They eat me alive if I don't spray OFF! on me. And down south, they are as big as hummingbirds!!! :-S
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No Angel, more like small pigeons.
Juan Luis and Middendorf's
Some years ago, my oldest daughter, Monique, spent her Junior year for LSU in Salamanca, Spain while studying Classical Spanish. While there, she met Juan Luis, a bartender that lived at home with his parents. Well, she thought he was cute, but was not serious about him. As it turned out, Juan Luis was REALLY serious about her! The following Christmas vacation, Juan Luis showed up at our door. Monique showed him around Baton Rouge and New Orleans. My oldest son, Gus, had just purchased a new boat, a 33-foot Proline with a zillion dollars worth of navigation electronics and twin 450-hp outboards. Gus proposed that we all take a boat ride from his marina in Covington, LA to Manchac, LA. My #4 son, Ted, now a USMC Captain came along for the trip with us.
Now Ted is built kind of big as one would expect a Marine Officer to be, Gus is not a slouch, and I'm just a sweet ole fuzz ball ...
The boat ride went well, and when we got to Manchac, Juan Luis was absolutely estatic; he was all of a sudden bubbly, and quite talkative albeit in Spanish with Monique translating. The dinner at Middendorf's Restaurant went quite well, as did the moonlight ride back to the Covington Marina.
Some weeks later, in a telephone conversation with Monique, I asked, "What was the deal with the way Juan Luis was behaving, and all of his sudden strange behavior?" Monique replied, "Well, with you, Gus and Ted in the yacht ... when we got into Pass Manchac at sunset and all he could see around us was marsh grass and cypress trees, ... he thought the three of you were going to knock him out, wrap the anchor chain around his ankles and throw him overboard! When we got to Middendorf's Restaurant he realized that he was going to live."
Such is life in the South Louisiana swamps and marshes. A subsequent trip back to Salamanca convinced her once and for all that Juan Luis was not the man of her dreams. A New York Stock Exchange Trader indeed is, and they're happily married.
Juan Luis and Middendorf's
Great story, Professor M!
Juan Luis and Middendorf's
> Great story, Professor M!
I concur!! I enjoyed reading that, Professor M. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Juan Luis and Middendorf's
That is very funny.
I am so glad to see you posting again.
Funny, but looking at their 250+ alligator pond I got the same sort of feeling and both Mike and Bruce are some of the strongest fellows I have ever met.
