J and I went to the Farmer’s Market to get fixings for dinner, and I found all the herbs I was looking for as well as some gorgeous perennials for the garden – vervain, buddlea, cleredendra, abutilon and golden rod joined parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. We got shrimp at $5 a pound – that looked gorgeous. When I was buying my Creole tomatoes – the guy said of all things he had farmed the…
Friday ended up being all about finding a place to be and staying there. My neighbor was on the bayou with margaritas early in the evening so I went over and had one. Then T came over and then G and we drank wine and listened to music on the porch. J got in and came over to join us and before you know it M was stopping in to join the fun. We turned…
I was interviewing a guy for the book and he was recounting the horrid story of his Katrina aftermath and I said, well, how are you doing now with it all? And he said, “Baby steps.” Ain’t that the truth. Interestingly enough it turns out he is a midcentury furniture freak and so he loved the house and the furniture and said that he and I are probably the only ones in this town that…
The J-man was being taught about how throwing a coin in a fountain entitles you to a wish. So he threw a coin in and said he wished to go to “City Park” and caught both L & M off guard because I am taking him this Saturday to ride the train and go on the rides – so L broke down later and said you know what you wished for? Well Ocho is taking…
Wayne and Timothy are here fixing the front door – they shortened it, put in a bronze threshold that I got which has an interlocking feature, and they also redid the fins – except now one is too short, so that is going to have to be made from scratch. While they were working, I went down to check on them – the first time Timothy said, “You have a beautiful house and I can…
Each morning, Arlene and I pass Cabrina playground – or Desmere Park – whatever you want to call it – but it’s where I used to take her to mingle with the other dogs and to play ball. She was a ball playing dog, that’s for sure. Then after Katrina, she developed a weird neurological issue that caused her to collapse when she over exerted. After costly tests including an eye specialist examining her, it…
A friend writes there is a band in her neighborhood called Blame it on the Dog. And there you have it. Do you believe in the concept that you put things out in the universe and they come back to you? I do – I was telling friends I was thinking of trading in Blue and getting a car and next thing you know my neighbor walks over and asks about my truck, asks to…
L & M stopped by to look at the decking material I used on the terrace – I described to them the three step process – torch down, then wood and metal steppers, then interlocking composite decking – all of it costing a fortune. We ended up just sitting around talking about running away to Mexico.
I bought some shelves and drawers at IKEA and Tom came over and put them together for me. We both marvelled at IKEA – the ability of them to make affordable, well designed, easy to put together furniture. I’m talking about paying $179 for a three drawer chiffarobe (as we call it here in New Orleans) and $129 for a 58×58 bookshelves that would easily cost $1000 to have made by any carpenter. For $38…
Last night, my mother insisted that some lying thief had rifled through her purse and taken her store credit at Dillards. When I suggested she might have misplaced it, her response was vehement: “I knew you would say something like this.” In between her sobs and vitriol, I tried to discern if this was an emergency call and decided it wasn’t and I needed to remove myself from her madness. I was telling Gomez about…