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Horse Property near I-49!
LA-1000709160
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Dianne Dejean Cell: 337-319-1274 ddejean@latterblum.com
313 Country Ridge Road Opelousas, LA 70570
Office: 337-233-9700
Perfecting your imperfect pantry:
Tips to achieve inner calm through an organized space (BPT) - When you open your kitchen pantry, is it streamlined and tidy or more cluttered and chaotic? The state of your home impacts your state of mind, so getting better organized in the kitchen can help you feel calmer in other parts of life. Cleaning and organizing our homes gives us something we can control when we can’t control much of the rest of the world - even with a space as small as a pantry. Stylist, interior designer and TV host Emily Henderson has a few tricks for keeping her pantry clean and userfriendly. As a mother to two small children, she knows clean cupboards are key to keeping her family life from getting too chaotic. Here are her favorite ways to refresh and rearrange pantries and cupboards, to maximize space no matter its size and give your kitchen a more beautiful look:
BUY IN BULK This saves on packaging waste and offers a better glimpse of what foods you have and how much. Plus, this helps prevent last-minute runs to the store for a missing ingredient when you’re in the middle of cooking a meal. Try keeping pantry staples like flour, sugar, pasta, coffee and cereal fresh in secure, space-saving containers such as Rubbermaid Brilliance® Pantry that fit in the pantry or cupboard. Airtight, clear and stackable containers like these keep you organized and on task.
CREATE A HIERARCHY Organize shelves based on ease and accessibility. Keep snacks like pretzels, cookies and bars at a lower height, as they’re easier to reach. Everyday cooking items like rice, pasta and dry beans should be placed a bit higher, followed by baking ingredients - and anything else used less often - up top. Remember, every household functions a bit differently, so adopt a hierarchy system that works best for you.
DECANT Decanting means moving pantry staples from their original packaging into a different, labeled container, usually a clear one like Brilliance® Pantry. These containers feature StainShield™ plastic so containers stay looking new, 360-degree crystal clarity, a two-latch lid for a secure seal and a variety of sizes to accommodate any amount of food you need to store. Being able to see what and how much
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is inside a container makes cooking, packing lunches and baking more efficient - plus, it makes the pantry appear more luxurious.
ADAPT TO YOUR SPACE If you keep a system, it doesn’t matter if you have a walk-in pantry or only a few shelves to work with. Choose containers that are modular and stackable to maximize vertical space, then designate sections for
certain tasks. Baking might be in one section, breakfast items in another, snacks in a separate space, and so on. Taking time to organize pantry and cupboard spaces now will have longterm benefits. Not only does it make the kitchen more pleasing to look at, but a pantry that’s perfect for you helps save time, reduces potential food waste and frustration - but most importantly, it inspires a more positive state of mind.
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313 Country Ridge Road Opelousas, LA 70570 3 BR / 3.1 BA – 3,432 SF $449,000 Dianne Dejean Cell: 337-319-1274 Office: 337-233-9700
orse Property! 5.26 acres, a couple of miles from Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino on Creswell and Equine Sales of Louisiana on Harry Guilbeau Rd. This solid brick totally-updated home has over 3400 sq ft of living area. Enter the foyer into a large open living room with a fireplace and formal dining area. Behind is the beautiful large kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and a granite island and bar for dining. The kitchen is open to the den with a fireplace and wet bar, great for entertaining. The French doors in the kitchen and in the den open to the large, covered back patio and fenced back yard, with a beautiful view of the barn and paddocks. The left wing of the home includes three large bedrooms, a guest bath, and a master bath with a spacious shower and separate spa tub. The large master suite overlooks the backyard and barn area. The right wing of the home includes a large mudroom, laundry area, half bath, and office. This home has a semi-circle driveway in the front, a two car garage, and an additional three car carport to the right. A tall metal fence lends privacy. A path to the left of the property leads to the farm, formerly called Dashing W Farm. This farm has been an equine associated development for many years. The home was originally built and previously owned by W. A. Darling, a 2017 Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association Hall of Fame inductee, and has remained in the same family. The farm includes the main barn with 18 stalls, a breeding barn with two large stalls and mare/foal stocks, a large mare barn, a 30 stall barn, a six stall barn, a round pen, two hot walkers, a large run-in shed, a hay barn, and four wash racks. The main barn is a solid, cypress wood structure with an office, a feed room, and a tack room. There are six paddocks with some stalls accessible from the paddocks. A full RV hook-up is also available. This property has too much to mention and you must visit to see all that comes with it! It’s a great facility for a horse breeding or stall rental business.
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Each year, nearly 40 million tons of food is discarded by Americans. Equating to more than $161 billion, food waste accounts for approximately 30-40% of the U.S. food supply. While cutting down on food waste reduces methane emissions from landfills and conserves energy – preventing pollution involved in the growing, manufacturing, transporting and selling food – it can also save you money by buying less food. Here are a few ways to reduce wasted food, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
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• Making a list with weekly meals in mind, you can save money and time and eat healthier food. • Keep a running list of meals and their ingredients that your household already enjoys. • Make your shopping list based on how many meals you’ll eat at home. • Plan your meals for the week before you go shopping and buy only the things needed for those meals. • Include quantities on your shopping list noting how many meals you’ll make with each item to avoid overbuying. • Look in your refrigerator and cupboards first to avoid buying food you already have, make a list each week of what needs to be used up and plan upcoming meals around it.
Store fruits and vegetables for maximum freshness; they’ll taste
better and last longer, helping you to eat more of them. • Find out how to store fruits and vegetables so they stay fresh longer inside or outside your refrigerator. • Freeze, preserve, or can surplus fruits and vegetables especially abundant seasonal produce. • Many fruits give off natural gases as they ripen, making other nearby produce spoil faster. Store bananas, apples, and tomatoes by themselves, and store fruits and vegetables in different bins. • Wait to wash berries until you want to eat them to prevent mold.
PREPARATION Prepare perishable foods soon after shopping. • When you get home from the store, take the time to wash, dry, chop, dice, slice, and place your fresh food items in clear storage containers for snacks and easy cooking. • Befriend your freezer; visit often.
THRIFTINESS Be mindful of old ingredients and leftovers you need to use up. • Shop in your refrigerator first. Cook or eat what you already have at home before buying more. • If safe and healthy, use the edible parts of food that you normally do not eat. • Plan an “eat the leftovers” night each week. • Casseroles, stir-fries, frittatas, soups, and smoothies are great ways to use leftovers too.
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Black Thumb Blunders: 6 Major Mistakes To Avoid When Growing Your Own Vegetables By now, we’re all familiar with the many trends that have dominated social media while we stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic: the “quarantini,” virtual yoga classes, and sourdough starter, among others. But none took root quite like DIY vegetable gardening. Because let’s be honest: Nothing compares to a vine-ripened tomato picked straight from your garden, and touched by no one else. But just like that bread-making venture, vegetable gardening at home can be surprisingly easy to screw up. There’s way more to it than putting some seeds in the ground and hoping for a salad. If you’re a newbie gardener, you may have run into some rookie mistakes. Don’t sweat it! Check out the most common blunders the experts see budding green thumbs make—and how to get the perfect harvest instead. 1. Not watering your vegetables properly All plants need water to survive. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to apply that water. “The biggest mistake I see new gardeners make is not supplying enough water to their plants,” says horticulturalist Jessica Walliser. “They water in a way that I call ‘splash and dash,’ where they just sprinkle a little water on top of the soil or on the leaves, and don’t really give the plant a deep, thorough soaking.” In fact, watering “is a skill that takes time to learn,” says Niki Jabbour, a veteran gardener and author of “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener.” Although shallow watering might keep your plants from wilting, a daily light watering can cause plants to form surface roots instead of deep roots, which help anchor the plant, Jabbour says. This will cause the plant to be susceptible to drought stress. So, how should you water your plants? “I like to water my vegetables deeply once or twice a week if there has been no rain,” Jabbour says. “I recommend holding the hose at the base of a plant for 15 seconds, then moving on to another plant. Then come back to the original plant three or four more times, for 15 seconds each time,” Walliser adds. “This really allows the water to
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soak down to the roots.” On average, plants need an inch of water per week. This can come from rain and/or water from a hose or irrigation system. Deep watering enables the plants to develop deep roots. “It also helps to mulch the soil surface with straw or shredded leaves,” Jabbour says. She suggests adding a 3-inch layer of mulch around tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash to help hold soil moisture, reduce weeds, and reduce the occurrence of soil-borne diseases like early tomato blight or verticillium wilt. 2. Getting the leaves wet On a related note: Resist the temptation to turn on a sprinkler and leave. “When watering my vegetables, I try to water the soil, not the foliage,” Jabbour says. “Wetting the leaves, particularly if you’re watering late in the day, can increase the risk of diseases for susceptible vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers.” If you don’t have time to hand-water each plant at its base, consider installing a soaker hose or drip irrigation system. They’re relatively inexpensive and easy to install. If it’s still not in the budget, try to water early in the day so that the plants have time to dry and not have moisture left on their leaves overnight. 3. Not reading plant labels Everything you need to know about plant care will be on the plant label or seed packet. This information will help you avoid surprises when it comes to harvest time. Take tomatoes, for instance. There are different types of tomato seedlings, and you’ll need to know if it’s an indeterminate or determinate variety, says Jabbour. Indeterminate—or vining tomatoes— can grow 6 or 7 feet tall. “Using a wire tomato cage to support it isn’t going to do much,” she says. “The plant will grow taller than the cage and eventually flop over and potentially damage the branches or developing fruits.” Instead, Jabbour stakes her tall-growing tomatoes with 7-foot-tall wooden stakes and secures the new growth with twine every week or so. “Tomato cages are best left to determinate varieties, or crops like peppers and eggplant,” Jabbour says.
4. Overcrowding and over-planting Plant labels will also tell you how far apart to space your plants. Many new gardeners tend to overcrowd plants because they want to pack as much as they can into their new garden. Vegetables need room to grow and breathe. Planting them too close can lead to diseases such as powdery mildew, and provides a breeding ground for pests. Plus, there’s no reason to plant 20 varieties of tomatoes or other vegetables. Plant what you know you and your family will eat. This will save you time and money, and limit waste. 5. Neglecting to regularly harvest your veggies Many crops will produce maximum yields only if they are harvested several times a week, Walliser says. Beans, for example—as well as tomatoes and peppers—should be harvested regularly to encourage the production of subsequent harvests. 6. Not employing succession planting Growing 10 green bean plants at a time will give you several bushels of beans you cannot possibly eat all at once. If you do not plan on preserving them, what are you going to do with the extras? Enter: succession planting.Succession planting will give you a nonstop harvest nearly year-round, depending on where you live. Plus, it also makes harvest time more manageable. Basically, you want to plant a few vegetables, wait a couple of weeks, and plant another row. That way, they don’t all mature at the same time and you constantly have access to fresh vegetables all season long. “One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started gardening was not succession planting,” Jabbour says. “We planted all our vegetables in late spring, and as they were harvested, we never followed up with new seeds or seedlings.”
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MY NEIGHBOR IS FLOODING MY BACKYARD
GENERAL COUNSEL®
Paige Casselman Beyt
General Counsel® answers are provided by the Law Firm of Oats & Marino, which is general counsel to individuals, businesses and government entities throughout the state of Louisiana. The information contained in this article is intended to be general in nature. Before any action is taken based upon this information, it is essential that competent, individual, professional service be obtained. Send Questions for this column to General Counsel®, 100 E. Vermilion St., Suite 400, Lafayette, LA 70501 or e-mail your questions to generalcounsel@oatsmarino.com. Sorry, no personal replies.
Q: MY HOUSE IS SITUATED UPHILL FROM MY NEIGHBOR’S, SUCH THAT WATER HAS ALWAYS NATURALLY RUN DOWNHILL ACROSS MY PROPERTY AND INTO MY NEIGHBOR’S YARD. HOWEVER, MY NEIGHBOR RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED AN EMBANKMENT OR LEVEE, WHICH HAS CAUSED WATER TO BACK UP INTO MY YARD. IS HE ALLOWED TO DO THIS? A: No, your neighbor is not allowed to do this under Louisiana law. Louisiana law directly addresses this situation. The owner of the downhill or servient estate is obligated to allow water which naturally flows from the uphill or dominant estate to run onto his property, and may not do anything to prevent or alter this natural flow. The construction of a levee, which disrupts the natural flow of water onto his property, and causes an accumulation of water on your property, is not allowed under Louisiana law. It is important to note that the provisions cited above also prohibit the owner of the dominant estate from doing anything which would make the flow of
water more burdensome to the downhill or servient estate owner. As such, if you have done anything to increase or change the natural flow of water onto your neighbor’s land, your actions would also be prohibited. I suggest that you speak to your neighbor and politely request that he remove his levee, because it has caused water to accumulate on your property. If he is willing to remove the levee and allow the natural flow of water to resume, it appears that your problem is solved, assuming that no permanent damage has been done to your property as a result. If your neighbor is unwilling to cooperate with your request, you should explain to him that you believe what he has done is improper under Louisiana law. If it is possible to resolve this situation amicably, I urge you to do so, since life will be much more pleasant for you and your neighbor. Please keep in mind that your neighbor may not realize that his construction project has cause a problem for you, or that what he has done is against the law. If amicable resolution is not an option, you should consult an attorney.
WHAT IS AN ESCROW ACCOUNT? Q: I AM PREPARING TO BUY A HOME AND UNDERSTAND THAT CERTAIN COSTS, SUCH AS INSURANCE AND PROPERTY TAXES, WILL BE HANDLED THROUGH AN ESCROW ACCOUNT. CAN YOU BRIEFLY EXPLAIN HOW THIS WILL WORK? A: It is very common for lenders to require homeowners to contribute funds for certain expenses, such as homeowner’s insurance and property taxes, into an escrow account. Typically, the yearly amount of the given expense is divided by twelve, such that the monthly portion of the total annual expense is paid by the buyer in addition to his or her monthly mortgage payment. For example, if the annual homeowner’s insurance premium is $1200.00, the homeowner will typically contribute $100.00 per month into escrow, by making this $100.00 payment each month along with his or her ordinary mortgage payment. When
the yearly insurance premium comes due, it will be paid out of the escrow account. The system described above has benefits for both lenders and homeowners. For lenders, it insures that necessary expenses associated with property for which they have loaned money will be paid, thus helping to protect their interest in that property. For homeowners, the escrow system typically simplifies the payment of expenses associated with ownership of a home, by establishing a system where the homeowner is essentially required to budget throughout the year for the payment of these expenses. Finally, it is important to remember that though the escrow system is typically efficient and accurate, it is not always possible to calculate precisely what a given expense will be for the year, such that the homeowner may have to come up with extra funds to cover an expense which is greater than what was anticipated when the escrow payments were established.
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RELAX: Five simple steps for satisfying spring cleaning
(BPT) - There’s something calming about a clean and tidy home. Particularly after a dirt- and dustbusting spring cleaning session, it can feel like a total reset for the entire home. In fact, 90% of people feel more relaxed when their home is clean, and the positive feelings don’t stop there. The 2021 Bona Spring Cleaning Poll found a strong connection between positive emotions and a clean home. When asked how respondents feel when cleaning the home, the top four responses were productive, relieved, happy and peaceful. And when prioritizing spring cleaning to-do’s, the survey respondents placed de-cluttering/ organizing and floors at the top of the list. With spring cleaning in full swing, consider channeling some of these positive vibes. Here are a few tips for tackling these top priorities so you can get back to enjoying the budding spring. STEP 1: DE-CLUTTER THEN ORGANIZE Start by scanning the room and assess if anything can be recycled or donated. Clearing away clutter will immediately make space for organizing and allow better access for dusting and cleaning. When possible, move items off the floor to allow for easier cleaning. STEP 2: CLEAN TOP TO BOTTOM Start with the tops of bookcases, ceiling fans and tables, then work your way down to the floor. During the de-cluttering process, you may have moved around books or pictures so be sure to dust or clean all the surface areas.
STEP 3: DUST THE FLOORS Prior to cleaning any hard-surface floor (from hardwood to laminate), it’s important to first remove dust, pet hair and debris with a microfiber mop. Vacuums are great for carpet and sometimes for laminate, but be careful on hardwood or luxury vinyl surfaces as the extra weight and wheels of the vacuum can scuff or damage the floor. STEP 4: CLEAN THE RIGHT WAY Clean floors with a cleaning solution formulated for that surface. Make it easy by using an all-inone spray mop and microfiber cleaning pad. For hardwood floors, consider a solution with extra cleaning power like the Bona PowerPlus Hardwood Floor Deep Cleaner which has an oxygenated formula that loosens and removes heavy dirt build-up, providing a deep, powerful clean. Avoid DIY vinegar solutions or steaming hardwood floors since both can damage the finish, leaving it looking dull and cloudy.
For sealed, hard-surface floors like stone, tile, laminate or vinyl, try Bona’s PowerPlus Antibacterial Hard-Surface Floor Cleaner. This ready-to-use antibacterial cleaner is uniquely formulated to powerfully clean, effortlessly remove stubborn stains, and kill household germs when used as directed. STEP 5: ADD SOMETHING SPECIAL Now that the space is de-cluttered and cleaned, add something extra special to complete that satisfied feeling. An extra bright throw pillow, new space organizer or simply a vase of fresh flowers can go a long way to bringing happiness into your tidied space. Spring cleaning doesn’t just make your home look great, it can help you feel good, too. These five simple steps will make it easy to organize your space and clean your hard-surface flooring the right way so you can enjoy your house to the fullest. theadvertiser.com | SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2021 | 15
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15,435 Sq. Ft. Office 23,348 Sq. Ft. Warehouse / Shop 6,600 Sq. Ft. Covered Canopy Commercial Kitchen w/ Dining Area * Media Room 6’ Fenced/Gated * 3 - 5 Ton Cranes For Lease - $25,000 Per Month
2,400 Sq. Ft. Office 14,460 Sq. Ft. Warehouse 8.9 Acres Total 4.0 Acres Stabilized $959,000
*High Traffic Intersection *Directly Across From University Hospital and Clinics *Walking Distance to ULL Athletic Complex and SLCC *Approx. 5 Miles to I-10 $1,143,450
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