Re: what do yall do -I was born on St. St. !

[Guest guest]

Chippy--N.O. was my home until we moved north when i was 3 but i

spent all my summers in august on the bayou Liberty with family. Ah,

the bayou in august..i can hear the buzz of the mousquitos and the

rumble of the DTT trucks even now.

This is New York City, so, what we do is, you know, we do that ball

thing. My boyfriend is one of the mayor's drinking buddies so he and

his two littlest are up there to help push that button.

Me. I do not agree with Mike on one darn thing, politically,

journalistically, morally, not to mention that he's a 5-billionaire

who doesn't give enough of it away, like oh, maybe to the millions of

destitute orphans of AIDS in Africa would be a start? Who thought he

could just buy an election right after 9-11 when we were all

sleepwalking stunned and turned out for 70 million (thats what he

spent) you CAN buy the election. No suprisze to a good Lousiana

girl...money buys offices there as a matter of history, but you gotta

love the place. Anyway its election year again,(I happen to know he

plans to spend twice that 70 million this campaign) so he's been

walking around times square showing how safe it is here (NOT) since

6am, before dawn this morning!...this man gets up at 5 and doesnt

stop until 11.

I suppose if I had someone to wipe my nose, cook, feed me, wash my

clothes, drive, think for me and serviuce me in every way, I could go

all day too.....

anyway....

a crab boil tongiht in New Orleans, what a great idea....we used to

eat at Fitzgeralds on the Irish Bayou where they'd turn over a bucket

of crawdaddies right onto the oilcloth table....mmmmmmm

the food...i do miss my grandma's cooking, but i have her recipes and

I know my son will always visit his mother.....

happy new year girl in the Big Easy....I need to visit soon...

love, leslie-Greenwich Village, Hip, Noisy, New York.

>

> Well I am in New Orleans and all kinds of stuff goes down here at

the

> stroke of midnite....But I am gonna do something different tonite.

My

> son in law is from Ohio and at midnite his parents and relatives

etc. go

> outside and beat pots,,,with wooden spoons to ring in the New Year.

> When he told us this, we did not understand..well now I do. We have

> this huge crab boiling pot....it can hold two bushels of crabs at

one

> time. I flipped it over on a small table in the backyard and tried

it

> this morning...it makes this great bass sound...very loud...so I am

> gonna beat that pot tonite...and the neat this is this...I have a

six

> foot wooden fence around my house and NO BODY will know where that

big

> noise is coming from....hehe.....that should drive my sister, who

lives

> next door, completely nuts....hehe....chippy