It has gone back to cold! Serenity and I had a fire in the fireplace this morning to take the chill off of the apartment. It's cloudy and windy and about 60 degrees out, yuck. Because of all that we decided not to go to the Pirate Festival. I'm a fair weather pirate I guess. :-) This morning I baked bread, this afternoon Serenity and I will be baking chocolate chip cookies for the fund raiser for the Domke's tomorrow after church. Should be fun. Here is one of my favorite songs by Tom Leher, I've got it on a CD but it's cool to see him here singing happily of spring time...
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
Comments
Post a Comment