Twins
My niece called and she is having twin boys – she has two young daughters – wow!
Month: October 2008
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Meanwhile, another smiley face
Another one of my pumpkins got carved – the rate this is going, I won’t have to do anything for Halloween but show up.
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Rational, Reasonable, Wherefore Art Thou Jefferson?
Quote of the Week I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson 1802
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Unrest in the hood
From a neighbor: It seems like crime is again on the rise. I just read in the TP New Orleans Police Blotter Crime Report that there was an aggravated rape on the 2900 block of Dumaine Sunday at 5:52 AM.
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Full moon danger alert
Last night was pretty active around here – the full moon was pulling and pushing and causing ripples in the water, people, and air.
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More news from last night
This from a neighbor: At 12:30 this morning, we were awakened to screams from a younger black woman from Gentilly who had been shot over 5 times and dumped out of a car at Esplanade & N Lopez. She ran to a neighbors house, then fell on the street in shock. Apparently her boyfriend had been shot and dumped on Elysian Fields or St Roch at a bridge according to her story to me. She gave…
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News on the bayou from last night
A woman drove her car into Bayou St. John near intersection of Moss and Bell around 11pm. A passerby entered the water to get her out as police stood by.
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Doldur Doldur Doldur
That is Turkish for fill it up which you say three times with your purse open during a full moon. No time like the present to handicap your odds – I just got my Vanguard 401K statement in the mail – good grief.
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Beautifying the neighborhood
After Katrina, the dome of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church was covered in scaffolding for a few years while they repaired and refurbished the copper cupola. This evening as I went to walk Arlene and Loca on the bayou at dusk, I noticed it was lit up and asked my neighbor if it had always been that way and I didn’t notice – they just had their 100 year anniversary and apparently it…
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Loca’s lament
Loca has a penchant for eating plush toys – it’s her affliction – and she particularly loves her friend and neighbor, Lucky’s toys. We went to Britex in San Francisco, a fabulous fabric store in Union Square and got felt to fix both the rat and the bunny. Here they are in the recovery room.