Hurricane protection
I crawled under the front porch and stacked my hurricane plywood neatly away. Fingers still crossed we are almost through the seaon and I won’t be needing any of that stuff.
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Year: 2007
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Salinity in the bayou
My neighbor was mowing the grass along the bayou yesterday and I went over to bail out the water in my canoe. When I got most of the water out, he came over and helped me haul it out and flip it over. The bottom is thick with barnacles. He said I had to scrape those off because it slows down the canoe. He also said that meant the bayou’s salinity was high. He’s a…
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The small town we call New Orleans
This morning, walking the dogs, an elderly woman came around the corner with her dog and it started yelping away at mine so she crossed over to the bayou. In doing so, she lost her footing and fell against the curb. Cars stopped and people got out to see if she was alright. A man helped her up and then brought her back to his car, where his wife was behind the wheel, and they…
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Glenda, the Good Witch
Last night, I went to Swirl, and lo and behold, just about everyone in my immediate universe had the same plan. It was small groupings of friends, neighbors, and extensions of those groups. D said I looked like Glenda, the Good Witch with my new hair cut. We drank delicious wine – a Margaux (the one I had taken on the Swirl MS 150 ride), a bottle of delicious champagne that we took to Hot…
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A nip in the air
I had to go inside and get a jacket this morning to walk the dogs. Yeah! Fall is here. Once around with two, and then we dropped Arlene and headed to the park, just Loca and me. I felt like I was walking on a my planet, Planet Rachel, for the first time in a long time. Yesterday, I went to the grocery and bought food for my house for the first time in a…
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Not universally funny, I’m sure, but . . .
A couple is lying in bed. The man says, ‘I am going to make you the happiest woman in the world.’ The woman replies, ‘I’ll miss you…’
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Finding other places
i have yet to bring my computer up to my office – instead I’ve opted to do my work from the kitchen counter. What the hell? Why not? Here I’m trying to get through my emails and figure out my game plan, all before i have to go up and feed the beast. What’s going right is this – work is interesting, my dogs are loving, the house is clean, and it has cooled down…
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Be 4 real time
Came back home from neighbors house and my other neighbors came to the door in a party mood and so yes, I let them in and pretty soon we were sitting on the front porch celebrating being home and living on the bayou and yes, it is hard to keep things in perspective here when the world at large is all thinking about enjoying every minute of the day.
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Why (or what) we celebrate
I went next door and had some champagne for a mutual friend’s birthday – she’s 45 – seems young. Anyway, we ate cream puffs from Angelo Brocato’s and drank my favorite champagne, La Reve, and then we went on the porch and felt the gulf breeze blowing and as we stood on the porch, we saw a SUV drive onto the bayou and steal Helen’s chairs. The birthday girl called out brazenly, hey, what are…
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Red chilis for the red head biker chick
My neighbors have taken to calling me a biker chick – go figure – they just got back from New Mexico and brought me a zillion dried chilis hanging from a string. They said the red chilis reminded them of me. Sizzling hot.