The solid mahogany columns on the front had started yellowing but B came and sanded and sanded and refinished them and now they are their beautiful deep mahogany self. He told me I waited too long. T came to fix the irrigation that J had run over with the lawnmower and then he fixed a couple of small heads around that had blown off. The front doors are now being refinished – a product of…
Yesterday afternoon, I wanted to hula hoop, walk Loca, go to the grocery, and finish a few projects that I had and instead, I just took the two chairs that T puts together to recline in in the morning on the screen porch and brought my Sunday New York Times and lit the candle and sat there and read the paper while I looked out at the already almost overgrown garden. I curbed the desire…
We were watching the Sea Inside last night and the part where Javier Bardem’s character is floating in the water was almost like a flashback this morning. I came to my desk, ready to put the weekend of Jazz Fest activity behind me and focus on work when I got a call from my mother that she had fallen and couldn’t get up (funny in a commercial and not so funny in real life). I…
I’ve had this button on my Jazz Fest hat for a few years; there used to be a guy right outside the Fortin Street entrance selling buttons – this one appeared right after Bush started the war in Iraq. For some reason, this year, I’ve been stopped by a handful of people commenting and who wanted to take a photo of the button. It’s timeless.
Sunday the wind was blowing and it was not typical JF hot. I started the day with a nice long bike ride and then a visit from Mom, who came bearing a Boston Cream Pie as condolences for Arlene. I got to the Fest just as the Pine Leaf Boys were getting ready to come on. They were awesome – this video doesn’t do them justice because they were jumping all over the stage and…
Yesterday, as I slunked around the fest enjoying music upon music, I was feeling sort of melancholic. I was missing Arlene and it is coming up on the due date of Ele (now Kiyelle) and I was watching all the parents out there with their babies. I ran into a neighbor and her baby who took her first steps yesterday at the Fest, and I wasn’t necessarily having a pity party, but I felt like…
Left the fest and walked over to Swirl to meet T (who is not a big JF fan). Friends of ours were meeting us there and some of the VaVaVoom musicians were playing. It started off slow, I sat inside in the window with my feet up after standing most of the day and the crowd started to gather. Then the music and people’s happy feet found their groove – our friends’ son was the…
I started the Fest yesterday with Astral Project and sat by a guy who said he has been watching them for 30 years. Wow, are they that old? Because I was gone from New Orleans for 16 years and hadn’t known much about them until Flower sent me a CD. They are an unbelievable talent collection. Next I walked over and caught the tail end (no pun intended) of Chris Owens. She had just brought…
GoGo made me a great belt buckle – it has POW on it for my Wonder Woman moods. She is at Jazz Fest the first weekend and if you don’t have a GoGo bracelet then just what are you doing in life? They are fabulous.
Below are Jazz Fest essentials – a good hat that you can add flourishes to that actually blocks the sun, a Brass Pass from WWOZ, cash, schedule, sunglasses.