I was thinking about Tin’s genealogy as I was working on mine and Tatjana’s. I have some details of his background but not a lot. I thought of a study I read once that talked about how the influx of Africans came into the United States and there was some tracking someone had done about how tribes from this part of Africa had wound up one part of the U.S. and other tribes in other…
Yesterday, we were sitting on the porch in the late afternoon eating our sandwiches from Parkway and a pelican flew by. It’s early. They usually don’t come until October so here they are a full month earlier than usual. Now it could be some lone pelican who decided to come in off the lake because he was in a mood for a little travel, but I’d say if you listen to the animals you learn…
We had three different couples in from out of town this weekend and it is Southern Decadence with all sorts of events to go to, one namely being the big parade yesterday, and as things would have it, we did not do much of any of what we had planned: Reason number 1: On Sunday, Tin who never naps in the morning slept for a long time. Then didn’t eat lunch. Reason number 2: It…
The subject of appropriate age differences came up and T said that in Croatia there is a saying: if you lay down with children, you wake up peed on. Pretty well sums it up what we were trying to say all evening.
When Obama was in town he took the entire family to Parkway Bakery & Tavern, right down the bayou from me. I’m not sure what they ate, but here’s a pretty good idea of how it went – I was there ordering a catfish on a bun dressed and a large roast beef poboy dressed – we were going to split with the boys. While I was waiting for my order, the kitchen loudspeaker came…
This morning walking through City Park with Loca and Heidi on a gorgeous almost fall day, we passed all the other fellow park pedestrians who were also out later than usual because it is Sunday, because it is Labor Day weekend, and because. It was a lovely day, I had left Tin for a resleep in the crib and Tatjana for a morning nap after we had all had eggs, grits, biscuits and the last…
Ever hear the one that goes like this: Fatty and Skinny went to bed, fatty rolled over and skinny was dead? Well today we went to breakfast at Huevos and once again Tin ate four tamales, two poached eggs while I was struggling to keep up. Then I came home and was getting ready to hose down the back porch as we have company in this weekend and Joe was out in the back yard…
There are two women who live across the bayou who are both 95 years old. Both of them walk every day. Both of them live alone. But that is where the similarity stops. One is active with the church and is constantly engaged in some church activity, bible class. I remember right after Katrina she told me the reason that we had been spared – those of us right on the bayou – is because…
Tin has been in the throes of Pirate-mania. Tata, our friend’s nanny in Zahara, gave him a pirate tee shirt and then we have been reading Pirates Don’t Change Diapers and suddenly it is nonstop pirate all the time around here. Below is Tin carrying around the now crumbled photograph of Tata who showed him how to baile flamenco – oh pa! and gave him galletas Maria to eat while we were in Spain. He…
We went to see The Kids Are All Right last night because T wanted to see it. I was watching it again from a sort of character point of view. I initially went to see the movie by myself and thought, wow this couple is Tatjana and me – I’m the Annette Bening character and Tatjana is the character Julianne Moore plays. But later a friend said she had seen the movie and loved it…