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This story reads like an Agatha Christie novel.  Seems that there were a cast of characters who disliked Andrew Borden.  Shortly before the murders, the entire household became violently ill. As Mr. Borden was not a popular man in town, Mrs. Borden feared they were being poisoned, but the family doctor diagnosed it as bad food. 

The maid, Bridget Sullivan, asked to be excused from window cleaning the morning of the murders, and was told "absolutely not" by Mr. Borden.  She was feeling ill from the recent "food poisoning" and it was nearly 100 degrees on that August morning in 1892.  The Bordens called her Maggie (the name of the previous maid) and didn't want to be bothered with learning her name. 

John Morse, brother to the deceased Sarah Borden (the mother of the Borden daughters - Lizzie and Emma) had come to visit that week. His visit was to facilitate transfer of farm property, which included what had been a summer home for the Borden daughters. Shortly before the murders, a heated argument had taken place which resulted in Lizzie and Emma leaving home on extended "vacations." Lizzie Borden, however, decided to "cut" her trip short and returned early.  John Morse actually slept in the guest bedroom the night of the murders - right next to the blood stained floor where Abby Borden's body was found.

Some theorize that the true culprit was an illegitimate paternal half-brother named William Borden, as a revenge killing in his failed efforts to extort money from his father.

Yet another theory is that Lizzie suffered petit mal epileptic seizures during her menstrual cycle, at which times she entered a dream-like state, and unknowingly committed the murders.

Another axe murder in the area, perpetrated by José Correira, which took place shortly before the trial was a great stroke of luck for Borden.  She was aquitted and after the trial Lizzie and Emma moved to a new house called Maplecroft. In June 1905, the two argued over a party Lizzie gave for an actress friend named Nance O'Neil. Shortly after that, Emma moved out of the house, and Lizzie Borden began using the name "Lizbeth A. Borden".  It is rumored that Lizzie and Nance had an intimate relationship.

The estranged sisters died nine days apart - "Lizbeth" - as her headstone reads -  on June 1, 1927 from pneumonia after gall bladder surgery and Emma on June 10, 1927 from a fall.

So, do you think the infamous and alleged axe wielding lesbian chopped up her father and stepmother? 

today at 8 a.m. and 8 seconds it will be:

08:08:08 08/08/08

yeah, its a really slow night at work tonight.....

bayou lafourche at thibodaux -  the bayou on which i grew up.  i used to paddle a pirogue and water ski on this bayou.  i took this pic standing on the percy brown bridge.  my previous home in thibodaux is located about a mile from here.  the name Lafourche is from the french word for "fork", and alludes to the bayou's large outflow of mississippi river water. It was formerly a mississippi river outlet, but was dammed at donalsonville in 1905.  on either side of the trees, the bayou is paralleled by louisiana highway 1 on the west, and on the east by louisiana highway 308.

private home along the bayou owned by the peltier family on highway 308

rienzi plantaion on highway 308

this is the dansereaux house located on the highway one side of the bayou.  it was a private home, then a bed and breakfast, then a reception hall, now it is back on the market for 1.3 million.  spooky.

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(that's an echo in cyberland)

uh, vacation is over dude! time to change some pics around on the main blog page, eh?

i could go through menopause waiting for new ones! LOL

use mine first! hehehe

poor lady.  she's a 88 year old nursing home resident admitted to our ICU.  i don't think her groin had seen a wash rag since 1962.  can you imagine one of yahyamoro's rotted tilapia's (head on) soaked in urine?  mariel and i donned our "code brown" armor and mixed the following ingredients:

1 cup perineal cleanser

1/2 cup shaving cream

2 cups septi-soft concentrate

1 dash mouthwash

1 small squirt toothpaste

Mix all ingredients vigorously in hot water.  Pour immediately into basin.

(not too much mouthwash - i hear it can burn the little man in the boat)

i cranked up her sedation and we soaked and scrubbed that woman down like a volkswagon.  i then went into my personal bag and grabbed some of my plumeria vanilla lotion and rubbed her down.  i bet she hasn't smelled as fresh since her prom and we all feel better.  feel free to borrow my recipe if needed as it is not yet patented. LOL

what is a "code brown" you ask?  a code brown is when a patient experiences a colonic explosion resulting in a bowel movement that could cover manhattan.  it may require two or more nurses to rect-ify the situation.  you haven't lived til you've burped a colostomy bag.  its like letting out 100 farts all at once.  at least we get to leave the room after, but it still wafts down the corridors.  then we sit down and have.....LUNCH! and some people think we get paid too much.  i love my job, i love my job. some patients have PBS (psychic bowel syndrome).  in spite of no intake for days, they continue to BLEEP what they haven't even eaten yet.  but really, if we don't make light of it we will go crazy.  you really don't have to leave your dignity at the door when you enter ICU.  ;-)