New Year’s evening I made a pot of black eye peas, cabbage (with a dime in it for luck), green onion sausage from Terranova, cornbread and B&K, E&E, J, and C all came over to eat. We opened some delicious wines and in the middle of eating the prodigal child arrived at the front door – G – so the family was all together and clasped hands and said thanks for our bounty and then…
After one of the best New Year’s eves I have had in a long time, I woke up with G MIA – I had left her in the Quarter, handed her off to other friends and came home. So a posse formed of J, B and E and I and we got in my truck and set off to the Quarter to find her. We went by several haunts and when we got to Oz,…
The past few days have spectacularly beautiful here in New Orleans – up until the arctic cold that appeared last night the weather has been perfect. The past few New Year’s Eves have not been so wonderful but this year it was magical. R built a bonfire in an old wheelbarrow and set up chairs and tables on the bayou. The night started at 5PM with drop bys and then it built and built until…