Week in Review – March 17th, 2024

“Watch out for cabbages”

We made a fun trip to City Hall on Monday afternoon.  In order to get a homestead exemption for property taxes, both homeowners need to show up with driver license and an electric bill (water bill doesn’t work.)  A lot more work than in Texas.  We entered the building via a side door and chuckled when walking past all the metal detectors and security at the main door – typical New Orleans.  Once we sat down, the whole process took less than five minutes.

I had my teeth cleaned at the new dentist we found through Kelly on Wednesday.  I was pleased with the thorough job.  Kenny met me for lunch afterwards.  We tried Mint on Freret (Vietnamese) and I was very happy with my lemongrass chicken banh mi.  The French bread was wonderful.  Cooper Manning was having lunch there – making it two sightings of him in a week.

I finally dropped off the four bags of Mardi Gras throws that have been in the trunk for a while at Whole Foods for recycling.

I watched the Netflix series “The Gentlemen” by Guy Richie over a couple of days – didn’t love it but it was entertaining.

We picked cousin Colin up at the airport on Thursday evening and fed him jambalaya to welcome him back to New Orleans.

I worked on Friday morning and then we took Colin for the Commanders Palace lunch experience – including the 25 cent martinis.  They had a corned beef special for St. Patrick’s day – served on brioche bread with a poached egg on top.  Colin wasn’t able to pass that up and really enjoyed it.  I had my usual turtle soup, stuffed quail, and bread pudding soufflé.

In the afternoon, Diana and I worked on preparations for our St. Patrick’s parade watching party.  Three full trays of cottage pie, haggis, dips, etc.

We had a great turnout on Saturday afternoon for the Irish Channel parade.  There must have been thirty or forty folks through the house.

They still drop cabbages from the floats:

Some of the silly boys thought they would entertain Diana with hats decorated with silverware – reminding her that they swapped the drawers around on their last visit, and causing a squeak.  Kenny appears to have fixed the squeak for now.

 

It has been very rainy so far today, so we just gave Colin a quick driving tour.  Very few people out at the Tracey’s and Parasols block party so far.

I started a collection of Flannery O’Connor short stories this week.  The first one is “The Geranium”, a pretty controversial story due to the racist views held by Old Dudley who moves from the South to stay with his daughter in New York.  I ready strong articles for and against the story.  It was originally published in 1946 and was part of O’ Connors’ Masters thesis.

 

 

Let’s start with the Irish classic:

Charles Lloyd released an excellent new album this week, at the age of 86.  He has such a massive discography.

Coexist peacefully, with kindness and patience for all!