Teddy!

"...Please send this to as many people as you know, post it on facebook, do
whatever as long as everyone in the world can see this picture. It was
taken on Lundi Gras (Monday before Mardi Gras) right by Tipitinas before a
few of the parades..."

I opened my inbox to this wonderful photo and message this morning. So just doing my job. The photo is of my friend Ted, Theo of Theo's Pizza in New Orlenas and Richard Simmons, New Orleans native and American fitness personality who promotes weight-loss programs.

Sweat it to those oldies Ted. Sweat!

Please feel free to repost the photo as often as you wish.

Enjoy!

Uncle Bruce!

I met my Uncle Bruce in Little Rock this weekend. Uncle Bruce is my father's brother and he lives in Wisconsin. I don't get to see him too often so it was nice to catch-up for a few hours. His kids, my cousins, seem to be doing great. It turns out I have a whole set of second cousins I have never met. Sounds like it's time for a family reunion to me.
So we met in Jacksonville at my parents coffee plant and then headed to lunch. We went to Shorty Smalls, the food was better than Chili's but not as good as Flying Fish.


One more photo of Me, Grandma and Uncle Bruce, Fall 1993, just before I was awarded my Eagle Scout.


Enjoy!

Home!

Happy to be home but I wish I was still on vacation. I got home last night after dark. I looked anround and thought this isn't too bad. Well the photo is what I saw this morning. It is not as bad as some but all my neighbors have had a head start on cleaning up and created nice little piles of debris for the city to pick-up so my property looks like a ghetto crack house.



One last photo from my trip.
These people were holding a Sunday church service at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in the Garden District in New Orleans yesterday. The catch is the church they are meeting at was closed by the Catholic Church as part of a "...post-Katrina reorganization of archdiocesan worship life, shrinking the regional church from 142 to 108 parishes..." but the congregation continues to meet and function even if they cant use their building and it is all very 60's protest/sit-in-esque.

Enjoy!