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Month: May 2007
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The process of selling yourself short
I came to a decision last night that I am not going to underdate anymore and as a matter of fact, I am going to super date – in other words if they aren’t fabulous then talk to my hand – the one that is pointing towards the door. This came about as M was admonishing G that she had to decide between brains and braun when choosing a man and I countered sharply –…
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Coming around the bend again
I called Marty from the road to tell him that Gary from E&G Pest Control told me that the fence had to come off the dirt because no amount of treated lumber or treating for termites would absolve the moisture that was going to come straight up that fence and make it rot within a New Orleans second – read: could be now or eighty years from now – and he wanted me to call…
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The Torch 85 on Wire Road in Alabama
I just passed Wire Road a few miles back and shades of 1995 headed to Atlanta from New Orleans for Thanksgiving hit me like a ton of bricks. We were driving our Saab – my beloved car – and the transmission went dead and we wound up at the Torch 85. While waiting for Dumb and Dumber to come tow our car, I was perusing the paperback book rack and came upon a book called…
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Georgia, Georgia, the whole night through
The Namer clan is gathering for my nephew, Michael’s wedding this Saturday in Atlanta – and also to celebrate the 3rd birthday of Rylee – one of my great nieces. Always a fun time at the Namer Party – we even had tee shirts made one year that said Ain’t No Party Like a Namer Party – loads of dancing and laughing – just an old sweet song……
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Greening the LaLa
The peripheral plants are starting to go in around the house – the Queen palms down the right side, the boxwoods softening the edges of the brick, the dwarf monkey grass in the middle of the driveway strip, the tea olives by the front porch. The rest goes in Monday – hopefully – weather providing. My roses can’t go in till January due to the heat.
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Rebuild or Leave
Last night we went to Hip Stix – finally got the name right – to have dinner – the pad thai and dragon salad is delicious, and the guava cosmopolitans can’t be beat. Then we came back for a nightcap to La Vita. I was speaking to I, one of the new young Turkish girls who has moved here, when this woman came in and G began speaking to her. She said she moved to…
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Zen Master of the Obvious in Carpentry
Bud – who also looked at the door today and the astrogal issue – writes me to tell me what was the mix of stain he used on the front door and then adds this: “Don’t be impatient, otherwise everytime you go through that door you will see your impatience.”
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Contractor in New Orleans
Okay, I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to remodel and add on to and finish this house on the bayou. It is a unique, fabulous house and I’m happy to have done it all in the end. But I have been through some really shady contractors, workers, carpenters, and so when one stands out I have to sing his praises. Marty Fears – 419.2360 – has done a fabulous job – his guys…
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One step forward, two back – A common theme here at the LaLa
$200 spent on the astragal for the front door – fixed I thought – and I did it mostly myself – wrong. Now the door needs to be taken off and a new astragal made that actually goes to the bottom, so the fins will have to be cut back, and the door cut shorter, and a threshold installed. Beat my head with bricks.