The water temperature during the summer promotes barnacles and since I had taken the canoe out mid summer and hadn’t checked, when we went to put it in the bayou I noticed the entire bottom was thick and encrusted with barnacles. My neighbor says when the water temp cools the barnacles can’t live – thank god – because scraping them is like trying to remove concrete. We rowed down the bayou with Loca today and…
I found a way to put my IPOD in my bra so I can hula hoop with music on the bayou. It has made such a difference in my moves. Mid November I’m taking a hooping class behind the NOMA and hope to pick up some hand skills. I get good at this and might try to hula with fire, seeings how I couldn’t manage to do the fire poi.
We were headed uptown to Casamento’s to take mom to lunch and were driving down Napoleon when we saw a big mansion burned down to the foundation – the firemen still had the hose on the remains. The adjacent mansion had been left a shell as if a firebomb exploded. Later, I learned a house on St. John Court had burned down many years ago. Ms. Marie said everyone came out to watch the old…
Pickle the dog is going to be on Japanese television singing along with his master’s harmonica.
I was speaking to the 95 year old woman across the bayou and she said she walks two miles around the bayou every morning and then takes another walk in the afternoon. Certainly, she has found the fountain of youth – movement. Someone was saying the other day that marriage is hard work and I said, not hard, but it is certainly not effortless. Great love starts with a spark, long love requires the flames…
I remember when I was having a midlife crisis meltdown in Marin County and my housekeeper, this gorgeous young Brazilian wrote me a note saying “I CAN FIND YOU NO COMFORT” – seeing how she was looking for the duvet and I was looking for a whole new lease on life, it ended up being my mantra. Friday night at Abby’s memorial, we were lounging towards the end and a friend threw herself on the…
I was walking Loca behind this guy on a cellphone in the park the other day and he said and I quote verbatim, “No lie, no, she’s 42, eh, old broad, how come you didn’t say that?”
Mañana por la mañana llena tu casa de flores de seguro que te visita la virgen de los dolores Today, I got a visit from the J-man who wanted to put his motor boat in the bayou. The misty, overcast, winterish day suddenly gave rise to a gorgeous sunshining fall day and the bayou had a few little white caps to provide enough adventure for the boat. While he maneuvered the boat back and forth…
City Park is blocked off and all a flurry this morning and the Voodoo Experience gets ready to open its doors. I took a look at the line up having mistakenly dismissed it as a youth experience. Although I saw a bunch of youths lined up already waiting to get in, the truth is tomorrow the Old 97s and Bonearama and more play and on Sunday Irma Thomas, the Queen of New Orleans is singing.…