Slowly, all too slowly, Mid-City restaurants are re-opening. We went to Katie’s for a Cinco de Mayo party last Friday… It was a one-time affair,…
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Slowly, all too slowly, Mid-City restaurants are re-opening. We went to Katie’s for a Cinco de Mayo party last Friday… It was a one-time affair,…
After about two months of inactivity, the demolition of the old Physicians Hospital on Canal Street has resumed. Not the historic wood frame houses —…
On the way home from a science fair in Algiers, my boss and I came across a rather astonishing sight. I don’t think the camera…
Ahhh… tea, just the way I like it. (Back on the caffeine again after almost a month.)
Today (Thursday) is trash day. Waste Management didn’t pick up our trash last Thursday, or the Thursday before that. The pile is mounting. If they…
Mike Leonard and his lovely wife Mardi were in New Orleans for Jazz Fest. On Monday, I took them on the mandatory misery tour. We…
Some former neighbor girls stopped by yesterday. They’re still living in New Orleans, but not near us anymore. I think they mainly wanted to look…
If it’s not one thing it’s another. There’s a slight plumbing problem at the house two doors down. It looks like the landlord is trying…
Xy came home from Indiana on Wednesday. When she entered our house, she immediately noticed an unpleasant odor, something beneath my level of perception, but…
As abruptly as it began, work on our house is stopping for a while. Mark and Tony, the carpenters, will be working on one of…
The carpenters are going great guns on our house. The termite damage and the rot are more extensive than I realized, so they’re essentially replacing…
I was happy that work had begun on our house at long last. But I was also anxious and unsettled for the last couple days.…
Helpful rebuilding hint: If you have any possessions you’d like to keep, remove them from the area before the demolition crew goes to work. Yeah,…
Ho hum, not much new to report… except that work is finally beginning on our house! I had just about given up on ever hearing…
The Sav-A-Center in our neighborhood finally re-opened last week, and I went shopping there for the first time Saturday morning. There’s a write-up at Metroblogging…
Intrigued by a post over at e-mail from NOLA, I took a tour yesterday afternoon of a few local fast food joints, all within a…
We got a call from Crystal, one of the girls who used to live across the street from us. She is now living in Houston.…
A few weeks ago I posted about a big demolition project which had begun just a block from our house, and how they tried to…
Garbage has been piling up for the last couple weeks, ever since the city took back over collection. The Army Corps of Engineers had been…
Neighbors are coming back. Not just new folks, but neighbors from the old neighborhood. I discovered this the other night when I saw some lights…