There is a beautiful door to the old Spanish Customs house across the bayou, it is a big, arched, metal door almost Arabic in its design. Just mysterious enough to always make me glance at it when I turn down Grand Route St. John. T gave me a card with a photograph of a similar door with a red bud blooming on the side of it, and on the back, a poem by Rilke: Pathways…
Tatjana said she is going to write a narrative about Wolfie for Toby’s website – Toby runs a German Shepherd Rescue operation and is a one woman show having saved hundreds of dogs. We first learned of her when we met Wolfie. On January 19th, I was riding my bike home from the dentist and saw this dog scooting across the road near Robert E Lee and the levee. I called Tatjana and she came…
When we got back from our walk today Tin was still sleeping in the Ergobaby so I stopped to rock on the porch and watch the mayhem going on with this movie that “Nick” is making here. There are 18 wheelers lined up on the side of the road, there is equipment coming out the wazoo, there are people and cars and dollies and generators and stuff everywhere. I watched the whole enterprise with a…
Tin has been taking at first two steps by himself, then four steps, then ten steps and today it is like whoa – Katie bar the door – this little boy is a walking fool! He is walking all over the place. It’s sort of wild to watch because he just gets up and starts going and there is no stopping him except just pooping out himself.
We’re so pleased that Tin will grow up not just with racial diversity but with real cultural diversity as he will travel with us, become part of our friends who come from many countries, and he already has very culturally diverse mommies. So it is with great pleasure that we dress him in the outfits that are coming to him from around the world. Here first is the Argentina outfit that he inherited from Ruby…
My neighbor mows the bayou because he wants to. Very good for us. He gets really vexed when he sees piles of dog shit on the bayou and he makes little signs on little orange flags that he sticks in the ground by the piles. They have pithy sayings directed at inconsiderate dog walkers. He also made a huge sign – sort of a counter I love ducks sign that directs people to pick up…
Tin picked up another cold and it is back to the aspirator 24/7 and Little Noses and lots of gurgling and kleenex going on. His ear infection is still there and so the doctor switched his antibiotics for another ten days. At least he’s eating and pooping – always the major indicators of health. But speaking of health – it amazes me how parents just cart these germ buses around – I was talking to…
Friends have weaned their children off the crib and have loaned it to us for Tin. So last night I brought home the new crib and when Tin got in it he jumped and jumped and jumped. He loves it! One of the crew members from the film going on in the neighborhood helped my neighbor carry it in the LaLa. I had to help my friend carrying it down a long flight of stairs…
They are filming a movie at my neighbor’s house – of course they are, what better scenery than Bayou St John and the lovely old houses along the water? The name of the movie according to the crew is The Hungry Rabbit Jumps and it stars Nicholas Cage who is supposedly here filming today. Another neighbor was referring to him the other day and called him Nick. Nick? Puhlease. Give me Nicholas Cage, gifted actor,…
I was talking about relationships with a friend the other day and we were talking about how people change so that we are continuously evolving and can never go back and recreate relationships from the past; all relationships have to evolve to be meaningful. With another friend recently, one of the things that I was counseling her about is her career. She went through a life changing event in the last two years and she…