Yahoo is still having difficulties with my large fauxtoes, so I am once again breaking up my Adventures...here we are go again!  This installment contains July 2014.  Thanks for watching!

The same excitement you experienced and have come to expect with Lips' Adventures (Pts.I-IV), now in present tense!

July 23, 2014 

M.'s BeeDay

Spent a splendid afternoon and evening with my Honey. Dinner at Domenica, of course.  The Roosevelt Hotel sent a birthday greeting, a card and a chocolate delight from the pastry shop downstairs:

July 12, 2014 

Bastille Day

Enjoyed the fete on Ponce de Leon for early Bastille Day celebration.  Former Trips guitarist, Raphael Bas, played his wonderful "gypsy jazz" in a scaled-down version of his band Harmonouche, with 88-year old accordionist, Norbert Slama and Chris Kohl on clarinet: 

Present Trips guitarist, Mark Fowler, his lovely wife, Pat & I all mosied down from their groovy pad in the shadow of the Luling Mansion, post-rehearsal. 

Mark Fowler with Dancing Heads

Pat (Mark's lovely wife) & Mark

The weather was nice & so were the folks out on the street, including Linda & Malcom Burns, with visiting grandkids:

Ran into "Jaguar" George with his pals Rene and Steve:

--they started out early for the "Running of the Bulls" with the Roller Derby Gals on roller skates, chasing them with plastic bats...

Also saw former neighbor and present-day Frenchman, artist Simon with his wife Maria and their pal:

Cynthia Scott sang the French National Anthem en francais as well as her translation en anglais, which as Mark put it, "I like it better in French" since the anthem called for the slitting of throats--of even your wife...

Saw Raphael's wife, Marie, and caught up with her a bit.  Did not get a pic! 

Enjoyed a crawfish pie from Santa Fe and gulped down four Purple Hazes.  Nice day! 

July 10, 2014 

Me and pal Robinouin took advantage of the Preservation Resource Center's Renovators' Happy Hour to house-snoop at a grand ole dame on Euterpe this evening. 

Patty Gay & architect Don McInnis gave us the scoop and then we got to snoop--Immense pocket doors with columns:

Some other original, knock-out features including:

fireplace in back room

Looking through the middle room to the back room

middle room fireplace

ceiling

huge french doors leading to the wrap around porch

pair of gryphons flanking the front porch steps 

drainage the old-fashioned way!

front fence

Nice-size backyard--

Scored some pix of the manse next door as well:

Love that decaying-look! 

Love the PRC and all those folks keepin' New Orleans Old & Magnificient!!!!

July 7, 2014 

Those fantabulux folkx at R&S Auto Service repaired the FurryMobile with great care & efficiency:  apparently the carbeurator disentegrated and they rebuilt it!  Cool!  You can do that in an old car, they said.  Eat that, Smart Car!  (I was concerned about that loud grinding noise the motor made when I started it, but now it's purrin' like it oughta!)  Thanks, R of R&S!!!!  Love you!!! 

July 5, 2014 

Had a fantabuloso beeday due to the time spent with me Honey, all the well-wishers, and a front row seat to see Donald Harrison, Jr. and his band at Snug Harbor, thanks to Jason Patterson!!!

 Dinner at Domenica

Detroit Brooks plays guitar with Donald Harrison: 

Thank you to Dottie, Trent & Katy (Kismet!!!) and the nice folks at d.b.a.:

Saw Washboard Lisa & John outside of the former Cafe Brasil:

What a blast!  And a staycation as well:

Nothing like a nice cool swim on a hot day, that says Summer!!!

July 4, 2014 

The "Go Forth on The River" dueling barges fireworks display as viewed from the 26th Floor: 

the same view, daytime.  Notice the crescent bend in the Mississippi River: