"Gumbo File"

Walking around the French Quarter last weekend, I saw this sign. Luckily I've already seen an aligator, but never a gator/gumbo combo.

Rex

Zulu was first, and then after that, Rex - the picture is of one of the first floats of the parade. The floats are rumored to be built on 1800s garbage wagons, which is kinda a cool idea either way.

Mardi Gras Madness!

We celebrated Mardi Gras this year! It was pretty great - it rained a little in the morning, it was windy, but it was still a pretty good time...

"Ribbiting" Project

Grrr - I got a new pattern last weekend that I was going to try & make & for the first time ever, I bought it from McCalls online, so I got a PDF of the pattern & I figured that it would be easier than cutting out the normal flimsy paper & stuff, so I was pretty excited about it.

I still think it's a cooler way to get patterns, I can't tell you how many tissue paper things I've ripped & wadded up in frustration, but, the thing didn't come out quite right. Maybe 'cuz I was in a hurry - we were going to go to the parades this weekend (Matt went to 6 parades this weekend, I just made it to 2), but I guess I'll have to chalk this one up to learning experience...

Oh, well. I think you'll be able to guess pretty easily who it was for, but I think I'll give it another go... Any ideas on how to fix the crookedness of it all?

Doors not opened

Work Conference

Today the bar put on a conference, and I walked over and took some photos. Check it out, some are pretty good...

Yummy! Yummy!

Ha - this restaurant is in the MidCity area. I thought it was funny - we went next door to the gelato place...

Morning Sky

I dig the morning sky, sometimes it looks really cool.

Final view of the rolls!

I can't believe I forgot to post the final picture of the rolls. They were delish!

POD - More Messages

Here's a message from my friendly gas station guy. I'm just concerned that the puns will stop - they seem to put up interesting ones about football, but usually skip out on anything else...

POD - Band on the run

This is the view out my window at work - there was a large marching band taking the shortcut up Lafayette, past my window to get to the Superdome. They seemed kinda rag-tag, but they were playing a school fight song (I can never tell them apart...) so they might have been part of something somewhere, but to me, just sorta random!

POD - Break In as I was breaking out...

I'm not sure, but there may have been a break-in when I was breaking out of work. Ha, ha. They're re-doing the HVAC system at work, and they're getting rid of the old systems, but I guess the only doors they'll fit out of are the big double doors at the front. It's just funny to see a forklift at the gates...

Bummer!

365 Pictures a day fail at 15 days. I've had a horrible cold, but I think I'll keep trying at the picture taking. I'm going to go for 360 days (not necessarily in a row).

Anyways, I've been really wanting one of my mom's gooey wonderful carmel rolls that she makes from scratch. Probably part of the pity party I've been pitching for myself since I've been sick. Anyways, so since today was Saturday & Matt planned to spend some quality time with cows & the new Fallout game, so I knew I'd have the place to myself. So I made dough, made homemade pizza for dinner & we're having carmel rolls for breakfast tomorrow morning. Yay.

Check out the pics of the stuff in progress. I hope they're yummy tomorrow morning!

POD - Good, but weird lookin'

Why is it that the yummiest stuff looks the grossest? We went to Pat O'Briens, and had their spinach/artichoke dip and it was delish, but it looks gross. Food pictures never really seem to turn out for me, maybe I'll try harder at that? Eh. Anyways, we went there after we went to see the Phunny Phorty Phellows - so more than a week ago - it's the beginning of the Mardi Gras season here. So it's legal to eat King Cake. And I think it's on King's Day which is 12 days after Christmas. Anyways it was interesting, and something they only do around here, I suspect...

I've found T.H.E.M.

Driving down the street in Metairie, I've found T.H.E.M. I don't know who they are, but I'll know T.H.E.M. when I see T.H.E.M....

Day 10 of 365

Sometimes I think the guy at the corner gas station is communicating in some sort of code. A code that I really don't understand.

Speaking of - look, it's 1-11-11! I'm posting this at 1:11, just to be funny!

Day 9 of 365

I see this guy on my way to work every morning. He seems really excited to be there. But then again, on Monday mornings, I imagine I look really similar...

Day 8 of 365

Wait - what! I was surprised to see the slogan that Rydell Chevrolet of Grand Forks, ND used for years when we lived there on a car with a Virginia license plate attributed to a New Orleans restaurant.

Day 7 of 365

I thought this was a really cool way to try to emphasize the amount of troops. There was a display in front of a lit flag of each country & each toy soldier represents 2,000 men. I'm all about different ways to illustrate information...

Day 6 of 365

The things they took with them - this is part of one of the American's kits of supplies they carried with them. I especially like "Barb"asol.

Day 5 of 365

He's watching the coast, ready to sound the alert...

Day 4 of 365

The "landing" boat with the jeep in it was made in New Orleans. Apparently Andrew Jackson Higgins had a boat company in New Orleans, where he had something like 50 or 500 employees and he had this idea on how to do water landings, which was a great help in the Pacific theater. They said that by the end of the war there were 300,000 employees of the Higgins boat company, and they had made something like 98% of all the Navy's amphibious landing boats.

Day 3 of 365

A vast armada looms - at the WWII museum.

Day 2 of 365

Bread & Butter Pickles - they were spicier than the ones Grandma used to make...

The New Old Me

So I've decided to try the 365 project - the one where you take at least one picture a day. I was going thru the photos from last year and realized that I really dropped off on taking any pics, and it seems like a good project. Anyways, I figure this is a great place to view my pictures, and I'm sure you'd love to see 'em. It's like a little snapshot of my life, kinda?

Anyways, here's the first one - Matt & I ate at the American Sector, it's the John Besch restaurant that's attached to the WWII museum. The museum was pretty cool... and the food was great. If you ever come here to visit, we'll have to go down and see if Art's ship is one of the ones they talk about. They're expanding the museum, so it'd be fun to go back and see what else they've got going on...