tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228377102024-03-07T12:46:05.600-05:00Travels and Home* Kitchen Fixin' in New York 2017
* Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2012.
*New Orleans, the first Mardi Gras after Katrina in 2006. Photos of people, parades, costumes and floats including bitter and angry ones, plus blue the many tarp roofs. Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-64556113210198235602017-08-22T14:43:00.000-04:002017-08-22T14:43:06.327-04:00Ready to cook if I ever get the urge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new kitchen exceeds my expectations. Breaking down one wall made both the kitchen and dining area feel larger. The light is wonderful. Steve, who put up with the idea of remodeling but wasn't enthusiastic, loves the new kitchen. We love the floor, the appliances, the faucet. The cabinets are well made and good looking. The new units Bob Mason made to replace the ruined mid-century modern cabinets worked out really well. The white quartz counter is good. The extra storage and counter space is great.<br />
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Last Friday, I wrote a check to the contractor for the final payment, and now that we have a completed sleek new kitchen and increasingly distant memories of coughing through construction dust, big bills, a grouchy contractor, the delay and expense of getting new cabinets and shelves to replace the ruins of the mid-century modern cabinets that were supposed to be refinished, and a grouchy contractor. Oh, did I mention that already? I know, but he was a <i>really</i> grouchy contractor.<br />
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Well, I don't want to leave it on a sour note because, ultimately, they did a good job and didn't leave us hanging. Good job, Lower East Side Curmudgeons.<br />
<br />Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-26666580967363181682017-07-02T22:10:00.002-04:002017-07-03T00:15:14.861-04:00I'd Turn Back if I Were You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When Steve worked at the VA in East Tennessee, a veteran made him this sign from the Wizard of Oz. (Steve often quoted the movie.)<br />
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The sign came with us everywhere we moved. Here, it hung on the balcony wall. A few months ago, the sign disappeared. We guessed it flew away in one of the big windstorms that afflicted New York this spring. Maybe it was offended I didn't listen to its advice when I went to renovate the kitchen.<br />
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Today, I visited Susan next door. She is getting ready to renovate her apartment with the same contractor I am using. When Susan and I stepped on her balcony, there was the sign. Susan said it just appeared one day. It flew from my balcony to hers.<br />
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I said maybe since it didn't succeed in stopping my renovation, it decided to give you its good advice. She gave me back the sign with a rueful laugh.<br />
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And yet, the 3/4 of the kitchen that is done is lovely. After two tries, I got the right part from Electrolux, and Avi, the contractor manager, fixed the stove. (He apparently didn't trust the laborers, who have been known to lack common sense. See broken oven door. See jiggling the refrigerator to make it level, then opening door and watching wine bottle fall to the floor. Floor 1, wine bottle 0.)<br />
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Today Steve made a real Southern breakfast like he did in the old-timey days in Tennessee. Biscuits! Delicious.<br />
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This area doesn't look much different than it did before we started. But it's all smoother, there's more storage space, that door on the left is the ever-loving garbage drawer, the refrigerator with the freezer underneath is great, and--and there's an ice maker. Ice any old time. Ice. Happy summer. </div>
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Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-81804005255137303392017-06-18T10:19:00.000-04:002017-07-02T16:01:38.845-04:00Kitchen Glitchen--OR--Too Bad about Those Mid-Century CabinetsThose old metal glass-fronted cabinets were lovely. And now they are mangled. Dead. The sand-blasting and powder coating turned them from smooth steel with a bad paint job to lumpy steel with a good paint job. I'm not going to post a picture because I don't want to be reminded of their demise. Here instead are a couple of pictures of from their nice years:<br />
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Oh well. So what if the whole kitchen design revolved around them. So what if we were ahead of schedule getting this done, and now there will be a big delay. So what if my already over-budget project is now going to cost another arm and leg?<br />
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Bob Mason, the wonderful cabinet maker in Brooklyn, says he can make something new. Here's what I'm thinking--a glass-fronted cabinet for over the sink, and metal shelves and rails and hooks for over the stove area:<br />
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Meantime, the cabinets, floor, and appliances look wonderful installed. I won't go into the shattered glass door on the oven that happened after I signed off on the delivery, meaning the store wouldn't have to do anything to fix it. Pictures to come.<br />
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<br />Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-51592527526973472712017-06-11T22:52:00.000-04:002017-06-11T22:52:07.587-04:00Fixin' the Kitchen with GPS as my Guide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On my last road trip, the GPS made some mistakes. She tried to send me down a dirt driveway to get back onto the highway from a gas station. She told me to turn right when I was in the middle of a bridge. I made mistakes, too. She told me to take the exit, and I missed it.<br />
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She just corrected, and we moved on. She never got impatient. She never apologized, no matter how completely wrong she was. She was unflappable, and with some of my own common sense (no, I'm not going to make a U-Turn there), we got where I was going. I decided to try to emulate GPS in kitchen fixing.<br />
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So when I called Rocco in Brooklyn to arrange pickup for the metal cabinets he was going to sandblast and powder coat by Friday, and he hadn't even started, I tried GPS-itude. That meant no outrage. No crying. Calmly: Can you have it for me Monday? Maybe.<br />
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Then I talked with the contractor about bringing up the appliances from curbside, which is as far as the appliance store would come. And by the way, the refrigerator doors have to come off to get through the door. The contractor said you need a special tool to get the refrigerator door off. He didn't have that tool.<br />
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I called the appliance store, and it would be $185 to bring the appliances up and into the apartment. "Get the contractor to do it," Mr. Gutierrez insisted. "He says it takes a special tool to get the refrigerator door off," I said. "It's a SCREWDRIVER," said Mr. G.<br />
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We've been making toast and coffee on the balcony, but there were some truly cruddy days, so toast in the bathroom. Yum. </div>
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We moved to this apartment in 2001, used the original wooden cabinets plus a couple of metal, glass-fronted 1950s cabinets we brought with us from Tennessee to North Carolina to New York. With new Whirlpool appliances, tile floor, and brushed aluminum counters (from Formica), the kitchen was fine. Later, our friend Toby made new rounded-corner cabinet fronts and drawers, and I painted them red and put snazzy brushed steel 1950s-tailfin-looking handles on them. </div>
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It was getting shabby. The not-very-good-to-begin-with paint jobs on the cabinets was getting chipped and perma-grime. The oven stopped working. The floor had cracks. The dishwasher sounded like a plane taking off. The counter was battered (though handsomely). The faucet barely flowed and then dripped. </div>
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Steve and I are planning to stay here. This New York apartment is a great place to grow old. It's got elevators. You can get anything delivered. Curbs are all ramped and all buses can pick up wheelchairs and walkers. </div>
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I pictured us in a few years, shuffling around our sticky old ruin of a kitchen, each of us also a sticky old ruin, old cabinet doors falling on our heads, us shakily lighting burners with matches because the ignition doesn't work any more, our fingers sticking to the grungy knobs. Would our decrepitude be more tolerable in a brighter atmosphere? It's hard to say. Maybe we'll be so bleary-eyed, we won't notice. But if we do notice, it'll be depressing, and we are unlikely to have enough money then to fix up the place, since we will have spent it all on thick glasses and hearing aids all kinds of medical things. </div>
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I embarked on a re-do to take us into old age. Here is the floor plan of the kitchen as it was: </div>
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After months of drawing, talking with friends for ideas, and research, here is what I came up with. Using the same footprint, it didn't seem like much of a change: </div>
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The old metal cabinets would be stripped and powder-coated. I'd replace the red cabinets with--red cabinets. Replace the gray tile floor with--a gray tile floor. A new stove would turn the corner and be against the wall by the window with a new little cabinet and counter to the left. A new refrigerator with the freezer below and a smaller, quieter dishwasher would be stainless steel, as were the ones they were replacing. </div>
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There'd be a broom closet to hold the ladder I seem to need all the time to reach upper cabinets. The ladder now stood by the stove--not an attractive look. The garbage never had a good spot either. Now I'd have a drawer just for garbage. A garbage drawer! </div>
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I'd also have the doorways widened, especially the one leading to the dining area, which is off the living room. I hoped to create a kitchen/dining space that would be sociable, almost like an eat-in kitchen, but, well, a dining area/kitchen. Best of all, the sunset could show itself off into the kitchen. Sunset is when I'm often in the kitchen, and I miss those sunsets. </div>
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Yesterday, demolition started. And when I looked at that big open doorway, I thought, oh yeah, this is very very nice. </div>
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Here's how it looks now:</div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Women carry all kinds of things on their heads. She's got padded boards--might be kneelers for pews. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a giant tlayuda in the municipal building. A tlayuda is a great big crispy tortilla--think small pizza--filled with--whatever. But this tlyauda is the biggest in the world--the sign even says it's in the Guinness Book of World Records. It's about seven feet across. In the center is a rendition of the Tule tree, which is nearby and the biggest tree in Latin America. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's got scenes from Oaxaca history. Tlayudas are cooked right on the coals and somehow are both chewy and crispy. We're going out later for our last meal, and it's going to be at the Tlayuda stand. But we have to wait because it doesn't open until 9 p.m. And then it's open until 4 a.m. Mealtimes have yet to make sense here. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Steve took the pictures of me. Here, looking at the sunset. </span></div>
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<br />Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0Independencia 304, Centro, Oaxaca, Mexico17.062528398528226 -96.729125976562517.060630898528228 -96.7315934765625 17.064425898528224 -96.7266584765625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-41721592799741940892012-01-30T20:43:00.000-05:002012-02-12T20:07:11.903-05:00Pictures of Oaxaca<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did I mention Steve likes park benches? </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paulina Salas teaches me Spanish. She tries to get me to use past and future tenses. I'll work on that, but I'm ducking the subjunctive. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the complicated patterns of stone in Mitla, the Zapotec/Mixtec archaeological site outside of Oaxaca. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paseo time on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Alcalá</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">Brass band in the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">zócalo. Lotta brass bands around. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">If that tree really wants to escape the schoolyard, I don't think the fence will hold it. Yes, there are Volkswagen beetles all over the place. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">They light up the trees in the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">zócalo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stayed a few days at the out-of-place-and-time Hotel Victoria--anachronistic because it had a grand 1950s Miami feel like nowhere else in Oaxaca, and placed on the side of a hill above town, had wide views of the Oaxaca valley and the mountains beyond. (Most rooms I've seen in Mexico open onto courtyards.) With signs of wear (some peeling paint, a rattling van that made round trips to the Centro), the hotel has an unpretentious feel, and with a big sparkly pool, it provided a nice mid-century interlude. </span><br />
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font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">They are part of an exhibit, "2,501 Migrants" by sculptor Alejandro Santiago.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14vBUuCBY0621sz3pN0pobGnVHgScLaymv_N_BQUkcgKMf64lPyZeVENylVYdUdp3YaDGFgsgXe9k-OhlcDmwB2fEnbf0ijREyQBKpN1hbtiPPxjrXDktQGFZXOjiU_YJR2qp/s1600/Oaxaca%2528ArnowPhoto%2529-27.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14vBUuCBY0621sz3pN0pobGnVHgScLaymv_N_BQUkcgKMf64lPyZeVENylVYdUdp3YaDGFgsgXe9k-OhlcDmwB2fEnbf0ijREyQBKpN1hbtiPPxjrXDktQGFZXOjiU_YJR2qp/s320/Oaxaca%2528ArnowPhoto%2529-27.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div><div><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Santiago's hometown, Teococuilco, in La Sierra Norte, lost half its small population in recent years to migration to the U.S.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBcLBpjWjLG5SSQIMXOxmWAN-wSXjue6l1obdAizCXtY8IKiFSp1cmNNiE323VRHxA7P_LewyhDHWVybUbc-M9FmOwIEkunPhSpHizPOfoKGsWa5_L8tUD1d89EZYQLeQufPc/s1600/Oaxaca%2528ArnowPhoto%2529-20.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBcLBpjWjLG5SSQIMXOxmWAN-wSXjue6l1obdAizCXtY8IKiFSp1cmNNiE323VRHxA7P_LewyhDHWVybUbc-M9FmOwIEkunPhSpHizPOfoKGsWa5_L8tUD1d89EZYQLeQufPc/s320/Oaxaca%2528ArnowPhoto%2529-20.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div><div><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; 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The kids are not visiting the exhibition, they're hanging out regardless of what hunk of clay is watching.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEt4JlNOSbJZja-PugN6-Q4_26BUjkR0DhmdA1g8AngvdDV0XfhyphenhyphenyXjkPZWtYSuRM6RGz3FAGq4Bd78Y2p0N8Ks5kGolqVVnJYf1W7nbcZTgOwyPTiBc-2FYl12WuF4QWccFU4/s1600/Oaxaca%2528ArnowPhoto%2529-45.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEt4JlNOSbJZja-PugN6-Q4_26BUjkR0DhmdA1g8AngvdDV0XfhyphenhyphenyXjkPZWtYSuRM6RGz3FAGq4Bd78Y2p0N8Ks5kGolqVVnJYf1W7nbcZTgOwyPTiBc-2FYl12WuF4QWccFU4/s400/Oaxaca%2528ArnowPhoto%2529-45.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div><div><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The exhibition will eventually come to Central Park in New York.</span></div></div><div><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: verdana;">70324 ever</span>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1141285307669930762006-03-02T02:35:00.000-05:002006-03-12T19:09:55.633-05:00Mardi Gras fabulous<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/thothArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/thothArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">Thoth Parade, bead throwers and catchers</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/JapaneseMardiGrasArnow.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/JapaneseMardiGrasArnow.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">Just some people walking down the street</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/oompaloompaMardiGrasArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/oompaloompaMardiGrasArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas on St. Charles before the Rex parade. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/hartnett.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/hartnett.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">Actor Josh Hartnett threw beads from a float. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/floatmardigrasArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/floatmardigrasArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">Rex Parade on Tuesday</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/costumeMardiGrasArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/costumeMardiGrasArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/ignatiusReillyFloat.jpg"></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#993399;">Some more people just walking down the street</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/ignatiusReillyFloat.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/ignatiusReillyFloat.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">A 20-foot-tall Ignatius Reilly from the Confederacy of Dunces is holding a hot dog. He was in the Rex Parade. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/MardiGrasBeadsArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/MardiGrasBeadsArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">Hold up your hands during a parade and you can get as many beads as you ever could want. </span>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1141090525052610992006-02-27T22:33:00.000-05:002014-05-12T20:56:13.493-04:00Help Help<span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: verdana;">In and around the Fauborg-Marigny neighborhood just downriver from the French Quarter. Click on a picture to see it enlarged. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-family: Verdana;"></span>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1140990803055976822006-02-26T19:00:00.000-05:002006-02-26T17:00:53.776-05:00Uptown New Orleans Sunday afternoon<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/bluewigMardiGrasArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/bluewigMardiGrasArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#6600cc;">Click on any picture to see it enlarged. </span><br /><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span></p><p></p><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;">This is a picture of a couple of fellows on their way to the Thoth parade.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/welcomeNewOrleansArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/welcomeNewOrleansArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#009900;">Magazine Street Uptown. The woman on the steps says it is her brother's house, and it only had a little roof damage. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#6600cc;"></span>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1140932425327686052006-02-26T02:37:00.000-05:002006-02-26T00:40:25.336-05:00Dubloon man<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/dubloonArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/dubloonArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1140903853585636892006-02-25T16:40:00.000-05:002006-02-25T16:46:24.866-05:00The Quarter Saturday<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/rabbitNewOrleansArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/rabbitNewOrleansArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/fireHulkNewOrleansArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/fireHulkNewOrleansArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/HurricanedTreeNewOrleansArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/HurricanedTreeNewOrleansArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1140884642185689902006-02-25T13:30:00.000-05:002014-05-12T20:55:32.268-04:00Blue roofs<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/blueroofchartresursulinesArnow.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/blueroofchartresursulinesArnow.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />
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Here's how she's doing at least from our perspective of a few hours as tourists. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p><span style="color:#993399;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The cat's on a balcony in the Quarter decorated with Mardi Gras garlands.</span> </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/KatrinaTShirtArnow.0.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/KatrinaTShirtArnow.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ffcc00;"><span style="color:#33cc00;">Post-hurricane t-shirts are sold amongst the usual New Orleans souvenirs. Miriam models hers.</span><br /></span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/HurricaneTShirtArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/HurricaneTShirtArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/BourbonSt.Arnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/BourbonSt.Arnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;">Bourbon Street is still filled with dancing, bead-flinging and drinking.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/floatNewOrleansArnow.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/floatNewOrleansArnow.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><br />There were three parades. D'etat used their floats to comment on recent events.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/femaneworleansarnow.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/femaneworleansarnow.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#993399;">These guys' banner says FEMA on one side and DEMA on the other: Dictators Emergency Management Agency.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/adjusterneworleansarnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/adjusterneworleansarnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;">This is the Adjuster float</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/droppedballneworleansarnow.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/droppedballneworleansarnow.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#663366;">The "Who Dropped It?" Float.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;">Pat<br />My website, Pat Arnow's Poltical and Personal, </span><a href="http://www.arnow.org"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;">arnow.org</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;"><br />Or e-mail me at </span><a href="mailto:arnowp@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;">arnowp@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;"> </span></span></span>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22837710.post-1140851805257834942006-02-25T02:13:00.000-05:002006-02-25T18:50:16.016-05:00Hermes parade<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/HermesNewOrleansArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/HermesNewOrleansArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/HermesdragonNewOrleansPatArnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/HermesdragonNewOrleansPatArnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/ulyssesfloatneworleansarnow.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/ulyssesfloatneworleansarnow.jpg" border="0" /></a><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/320/hermesfloatneworleansarnow.1.jpg" border="0" /> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1170/2329/1600/P1170640.jpg"></a>Pat Arnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836148166041256707noreply@blogger.com0