Trips to News Orleans, LA and Jacksonville, AL

This is a picture in a pumpkin patch in Whole Foods in New Orleans. It's so Fall and Festive! Even though it was 80 degrees outside. Sorry it has been a while since I've blogged. We've been busy on vacation. First for our 2nd anniversary we traveled to New Orleans, LA to visit friends. We stayed with one of my best friends from high school, Josh Moore, who is a chef at Gautreau's. Then we met up with several of our Montgomery buddies who are now working in television in New Orleans.
During our visit we toured the 9th Ward and the Lake Pontchatrain area. The two places are still rebuilding. FEMA trailers are still homes for many people. It's sad to see some streets were completely wiped out by Hurricane Katrina. This was my first time seeing New Orleans since the storm.
I didn't take pictures of the storm ravaged areas because I made a video of those areas. I only took pictures of the good times.
This is Josh, me and Kevin in front of Lake Pontchatrain after touring the storm ravaged areas. If you look really hard you can several sailboats in the background. It was such a beautiful day to be out on the water.




















Here is a self portrait of Kevin and I at Pat O'Brien's. I took it. Josh was on the phone.....This was taken before we met up with our friends from Montgomery.
















This is Sean Temple and Nicondra Norwood. Kevin and I worked at WAKA in Montgomery, AL with these two cats. It was wonderful getting to catch up. We watched the Saints game with everyone that night. As you can see Sean is a die hard fan. He and Nicondra are both from the New Orleans area originally. Now they are both home working in t.v. in NOLA.


















The only new face in this picture is Robert O'Shields we also worked with Robert at WAKA. He is now doing sports in New Orleans. All my Gump friends are working in NOLA. It's wild.



















Here's another Montgomery buddy working in New Orleans we got to hang out with. Brooke Erickson. She's also doing television in NOLA as well. So everyone all these cats have the New Orleans market saturated! You go guys-keep rocking New Orleans.

Josh, took us to eat here because, well everyone else and their momma had recommended it to us. Port of Call is known for its famous hamburgers and little bit of potatoes and sour cream and cheese you get. It was good. Next time I'm going to get more seafood, and more of Josh's restaurant. Gautreau's was the bomb. I didn't take any pictures there because I didn't want to look like a dork. The place is super exclusive. I mean Vince Vaughn ate there two weeks before we did. Hey, look out tall drink of water... I can't say enough good things about Gautreau's except for the next time your in NOLA go eat at Gautreau's-it is the best food you will ever eat in your life!!!!

New Orleans Jazz!!!

Part two of this blog entry!

This past weekend I returned to my college-Jacksonville State University for homecoming! It was a lot of fun. That's where my sister is a freshman this year. So we got to spend part of the weekend with her.

This is Caitlin and Brady Baldwin. He plays the saxophone for the Jacksonville Marching Southerners. I took this picture of them at Jefferson's. A restaurant in Jacksonville known for its hot wings! Yesterday, I just got a B.L.T. and a salad. I know, what was I thinking?

Hey, Caitlin cute shirt.

Now here are the Marching Southerners. Can you pick out Brady? Well probably not in this line up. But when they were all spread out he was on the 20 yard line.

O.K. I didn't take a picture of the real J.S.U. cheerleaders because I think these guys do the best job. HA! I laughed my tail off at these men. They ran around the stadium doing cheers.

They had all kinds of letters painted on their chests and backs. At one point one of the men hollered out "SPELL CHECK".

In this picture the guy is screaming give me a number, for number one.

Funny guys!
You definitely got your photo opportunity as they were calling it, as I snapped away pictures.

Give me a G-A-M-E- C-O-C-K-S, Gooooooo Gamecocks! We beat Tennessee Tech!

I'm sure it was because these guys cheered the crowd on....

Human Feces for Fertilizer

Gross! That's all I can say. Human feces for fertilizer. Some farmers in Limestone County are using it on their farms as a fertilizer. They're shipping it all the way from New York City. Imagine me saying that like they do in the Pace Picante commercial, New York City. But seriously, who cares if the E.P.A. says it's o.k. it's just down right creepy, spreading poop across fields.
I mean come on yuck, yuck, yuck. I don't like to smell other people's poop, do you think these people who live next to this farm are enjoying smelling New York people's crap (literally). Think about it farmers, and suppliers. It can't be pleasant.
They're shipping it in by rail car, then treating the poop at Synagro, Inc. in Leighton, AL. Of course we've been getting calls at NewsChannel 19 from people about their animals getting sick already. Which it may or may not be directly related.
Wednesday the Limestone County Commission filed for an injunction to stop farmers from spreading the human waste on farms in Limestone County, but it's not going to stop the farmers in Lauderdale and Colbert Counties who are also using the sludge. It may take a week for Limestone County to find out if a judge will stop farmers from spreading the fertilizer.
Synagro says they've been slinging the poop for 20 years up and down the North and South and it's safe.
Congressman Bud Cramer's office is also looking into the situation. My personal opinion...once it's all said and done. I think we'll go back to using another fertilizer for crops. Perhaps cow poop, or chicken poop? Who knows?