Step One. Get what you’ll need to go in the gumbo. This will include: Going to LaPlace, LA for the good anduoille sausage. If you are in NOLA, this will take, round trip, one-and-a-half hours. Going to the Honey Baked Ham store for a $5 ham bone for a 1/2 pound of the ham still [...]
Every morning these days, we wake up to little red bites over Sun’s arms and face. Right now, she has over 10 bites on her. Mosquitoes. I HATE mosquitoes buzzing in my ear and biting me at night. Even more, I hate the thought of them biting on Sun unable to swat them away. Poor [...]
I started working on my new knitting project on Saturday–Baby Mary Jane Booties for Sun. The left bootie went very well and flew of my needles. The right? Not so right. I misread the instructions and knitted a second left one. So I ripped back and re-did part of it. I have been told that [...]
Sun is getting baptized this Sunday and we are having the family and a few friends over afterwards. One of the things I want to serve at the little party is gumbo made with one of the andouille sausage links I recently purchased. The gumbo also calls for a bit of ham. I have never [...]
One latent talent (I never realized those two words – latent and talent – were, like, the same word. Look at ‘em. Weird.) of Captain Sarcastic is his pumpkin carving skills. This guy has lots of talents–he can juggle, do origami, knit, fix computers, take professional photographs, make balloon animals, fix a car, float sheet [...]
I love Halloween. It’s one of the holidays that I have fond memories of from my youth and that I still enjoy as an adult. And sometimes I think about how things have changed from when I was a kid for the worse. But the other day I was presented with a new tradition, and, [...]
I can barely contain myself as I write this: I have finished knitting my blanket. Finished! Even my last thread has been woven in. It is complete. To get an idea of the monster of this thing, I cast on 182 stitches (just under four feet wide) on 52″ size 9 needles–and knit for six [...]
Wendy tagged me for this meme. Here goes: 4 jobs I’ve had: PBX Operator and Front Desk Sales Representative (known as an FDSR, catchy, heh?) at 2 hotels in New Orleans, a sales clerk at a hardware store (TrueValue rocks!), a law clerk at two law firms, then a lawyer at two law firms with [...]
I was a member of Greenpeace back in the 80s. They had checks printed on recycled paper well before anyone else. And even though I had a minimum wage job, I paid for my membership and my checks and was proud to support a greener world.And in law school, I still clearly remember the day [...]
I was fishing around on my iPod for some tunes. I was tired of my playlists and just couldn’t settle on an artist or album. Then I saw “shuffle” as an option. I’d forgotten I’d had this option. I pushed it and waited. And out came the Traveling Wilburys. I was happy. Then came ABBA, [...]