Buster's Place
519 E. Boston
Covington, Louisiana
www.bustersplaceonline.com

christ church

Christ Episcopal Church is the oldest building still in use in Covington, Louisiana -- it was built in 1846. It fits in with the character of the historic downtown with its narrow streets and old buildings. Quite a contast to the high-tech, state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center housed in the "contemporary" court house built in 1959, which replaced the razed 1894 building and abandoned for the new government center in 2003. The "hanging" oak trees are still there.

fishing on the bogue falaya

I'm not doing too well with pronouncing some of these Louisiana names! This river is the Bogue Falaya, not to be confused with the Tchefuncte. I could say Soap and Tallow Branch. To reach Covington on the North Shore we traveled from New Orleans 24 miles across the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway -- looked like an ocean to this West Texas gal.

january has an "r"

Charboiled Oysters
Acme Oyster House
St. Tammany Parish
Covington, Louisiana

Why do we only eat oyster in the months that have R's in them? The answer has to do with an oyster's sex life. During the month without R's, the adult oyster has little interest in sex . During cold weather the oyster's body weight is made up of the glycogen and salts that make it fat and tasty. But in the late spring, the oyster's fancy lightly turns to reproduction and it assumes a sex for the season, or at least part of it. It may be either sex, primarily. Having made a choice of which sex it will be, the oyster converts 80 percent of its body weight to sex organs, which are thin and watery and taste like nothing at all. It isn't that oysters are inedible during the summer; just that they aren't as meaty and succulent.