Fall evenings in May & other photos

What's a good walking adventure without a good kitty cat discovery? We stumbled across this snowball right beside Tracy's on magazine. She had a collar, so someone's keeping an eye on her, and she had pretty blue ones. A leucistic kitty!

If my life were a TV series, the ending credits would play an amazing zelda-like song. To these end credits, a flying tortoise (from the perspective of the tortoise) would be in the background.

These are our three red-footed tortoises, Kermit,Animal & Beaker. I carry tortoises to and from their holding to an enrichment yard. I also pretend they're flying..I wonder if they do too.
Henny penny is my favorite chicken, she's a Rhode Island red, bantam,cochin chicken. She's the mother of all our mini chickens and she's red like me. I would like to be Henny penny, if I were a chicken.
This is our office guinea pig, Betty. They squeal, they purr, they jump, they're awesome. Monica was using my desk to trim their nails and Betty was exploring all the smells.
Derby! This is the wild Discovery Walk box turtle, Derby. He was named by a volunteer, Brian, because the turtle's shaped like a derby hat! Though he's wild, I feed him a little now and then and keep an eye on him. I'd like him to stick around...he seems like he's taking to the idea...or the bananas.
A wild egg was brought to D.W. this past Sunday. A volunteer, Megan, took it home to see if it would hatch. She later found out that it is a grackel egg. It hasn't hatched yet, but maybe it will.
The mississippi river is on the rise. Much of the gulf coast has already experienced flooding and soon some of Louisiana will as well. Due to the quick rising river, NOLA and Baton Rouge could suffer severe flooding, the state decided this past week to open up the morganza spillway to release the rise and divert it from the main cities. Unfortunately, many smaller rural areas will suffer. Definitely a hard decision to make.




Three poodles hang outside the coffee shop on a Saturday morning. Otto relaxes on the nicely made bed with the monkeys. I finished "Dead Reckoning" and picked up "Girls Raised By Wolves".I liked that they spelled NOLA with different glasses. Good idea! The house below always has cool displays for the season, just random New Orleans.

Mystic Blue signs is one of the coolest stores, they have so many interesting displays. The flag shop across from it has every flag you can imagine. They compliment each other well.

The yellow sign house is actually a hair studio! How cool! We might check it out somtime.

The caffeine rush has finally started to settle.

Otto and I are sprawled out & relaxing; him with his "Seth Speaks" novel & I with my new blog companion.

I was just telling Otto that I enjoying blogging a bit more than facebook. It seems on facebook, that when you put albums or thoughts or anything up for all your friends to see, you're always looking for approval or acceptance. This isn't always the case, for sure. I do like facebooking occasionally (at least once a week). It helps to briefing scan the activities of others and catchup. So there is positives and negatives. It seems the negatives can outweigh the positives a bit, but that's just how I'm feeling about it at the moment.

Thank goodness for blogging then! : ) A good place to record my progress & happiness.

5:00

The house was a mess. The cats and ourselves had done quite a job of destroying it. I even added a picture to take in the full effect of before and after.

We live in a studio, an efficiency if you will. I like efficiency because it is actually quite efficient.

It's easy to clean, you don't think about it much and it's cheap: all good attributes in a home. It really takes the focus off of material things defining a home and puts it on people and their feelings making a home.

So, back to my master cleaning skills. It took one hour to clean the entire house (minus laundry)! It always seems like a daunting task to clean the place, but once you get started it'll be clean in no time. Whenever I'm tackling a task, I love to pull my hair into a good ponytail and strap on my good sneakers. It makes me feel immediately bouncy and focused. Silly, but it works :).

6:00

So we decided to take a stroll for some grub. Not actual baby beetles, but food of course.

We were going to our favorite place, Slice, but they were closed for renovations, so we went off towards magazine street. It was simply beautiful. The old streets, the unique houses, the historic parks, the shops, the communities-everything was so perfect as we walked. Otto said on one of the streets that it was just like Europe when he went to Germany and France. I think I would agree if I'd ever been there.

We plan to go to Switzerland, Italy and Ireland. Otto has family in Italy, but he says they're very hospitable and stuff you full of pasta...that might not be too yummy.

Our restaurant destination changed to Nacho Mamas. The food and service was pretty bad, but we let it go and when we left we felt nourished but not stuffed. The weather was windy and chilly so we jogged half way to St. Charles and that really helped keep things relaxing.

Before you knew it we were at The Georgian. It's such a pretty building. It always makes me feel good when I see tourists or locals walk by and stop and appreciate it. It's just like me appreciating all the houses we walk by and now I live in one...for much less and no ridiculous property tax or insurance.

Having a home could definitely happen someday, but there are many variables in the equation and I just like what we're doing now.

If Charlaine Harris and life have taught me anything, it's that when things are good just keep doing what you're doing, if it's broke don't fix it and if you're happy why worry?

Here's to more great nights and walking adventures!