Barbara Thompson

February 1, 2023 Keith here, giving Barbara the night off because it was my day that had an interesting event. Some of you know that I’ve been dealing with an unfortunate medical condition for the past 3+ years. It started as something related to Patulous Eustachian Tube where my ears would pop/unpop with every inhale/exhale […]

Tuesday, January 31, 2923 We heard today that the Mississippi River Brass Band is headed to Paris and Normandy in summer 2024. Today’s potd is from 10 years earlier (June 2014, the last time we were in Paris). Viva la Band!

Monday, January 30, 2023 Have you watched School of Chocolate on Netflix? It’s a reality show – but the people are there to learn; they don’t get voted off. The host is an amazing chocolatier, who can apparently make anything out of chocolate. We watch him on YouTube now and then, and it is always

Sunday, January 29, 2023 You can talk about how cold it is back at home, but it’s really meaningless until you are actually here. You can talk about how nice it is not to be cold (or at least VERY cold) when you go outside, but you don’t really appreciate it until you are actually

Saturday, January 28, 2023 We went back to the French Quarter – nothing like Bourbon Street on a Saturday morning. It’s pretty amazing how many people are already stumbly at 11am. And the smells! Ew! We wandered some shops, then found a National Park place right in the middle of the French Quarter. What? How

Friday, January 27, 2023 Today started with a scurry. Well, first there were working hours/leisure hours, but we planned to leave at 11:30 to go out for the day. Our Jazzy pass for the streetcar was good for 24 hours exactly – and it expired at 11:50. The streetcars are supposed to come every 15

Thursday, January, 26, 2023 But first we ate. Bwahahahaha! Eating! We went to Bearcat for lunch, but we both had breakfast (served all day). I had breakfast potatoes – described as crispy potatoes, mornay sauce (a bechamel sauce with cheese), and an egg. It actually came with two eggs – bonus. Have you had mornay

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 I know it’s almost unbelievable, but today we just ate (and, of course, Keith worked). We had gumbo for lunch from Café Reconcile that we brought home yesterday. It was just as good the second day. I walked down St. Charles Avenue to go to Bernard’s Praline shop. We had seen

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 I found Café Reconcile on maps. It is a few blocks from where we are staying – definitely on the seedier side of the neighborhood. From their website: In 1996, Rev. Harry Tompson, S.J., then pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, joined with community members Craig Cuccia and Tim Falcon to bring

Monday, January 23, 2023 Keith was working today and his meetings kept getting postponed from late morning to noon and on, so we decided to zip to the corner for fried chicken for a quick take-out lunch. We both ended up with tenders, because they looked good and meaty. And they were good and meaty.