Are there no Andouille Calas with Green Onion Sauce at Jazz Fest this year?? We missed them on Friday and I cannot find anything about them in Off Beat for next weekend. I scoured Food Area One for a good half hour, loosing our window for the Cochon po’ boys before the line [...]

This email is from my friend Leigh Ann, who has been working for the CDC and conducting her dissertation research in Zanzibar over the last year. If you have shoes you’d like to donate, contact me (coldspaghetti (at) gmail (dot) com) and I’ll pass on Leigh Ann’s information.
UPDATE: If you’ve got any soccer cleats, [...]

I will burn for all eternity for this.   Burn burn burn.   The devil made me do it.

Coordination and handling supply, delivery, and storage are our current nightmares.- Still must finish plumbing and electrical before drywall.- Found drywaller (phew!)- Ordered drywall and supplies this morning- Need to rent scaffolding- Drywall delivered Tuesday, will take about a week- What about having a light in the back yard from the house? Yikes!?- Hopefully, [...]

It’s a red-letter day in our house… Kate asked to sit on the potty AND THEN USED IT FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. It’s tough to appreciate the momentousness of this occasion if you don’t yourself have children, and I was trying to think of something that would compare. The joy of a [...]

Some pre-insulation photos… I took these this morning while Paul quickly tried to finish up a few more electrical details on the exterior walls. It took a few hours for the team to spray foam through the walls. We’ll have them come and do under the house eventually. The smell in the [...]

I saw this meme on Charlotte’s blog and it made my night. I had to keep the entertainment high and continue it here.
The Rules:Post a quotation from 15 of your favorite movies. (Use IMDB if you need a little help.)Fill in the film title when it’s guessed (guessers leave your answers in the [...]

One of the reasons I cleared the kids out of the house for the weekend was the messiness of sawing through a huge section of lathe right into our bedroom. Our bedroom closet is the largest in the house in terms of width, but not deep enough to hang a standard clothing hanger. [...]

Back in October, laloca posted about Donald Rumsfeld’s involvement in the FDA approval of the neurotoxin aspartame, a popular sweetener marketed as “Nutrasweet”. In 1981, Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle Laboratories and called in favors to get the drug approved by then newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes. In her post, [...]