“She Said Yes!”
Finn and Holly got engaged on the beach in Galveston, TX on Monday. They look so happy and had a great meal to celebrate their engagement and Holly’s birthday.
I’m so happy these two found each other.
I was tracking Hurricane Francine and hoping it wasn’t going to disrupt their plans. They were fortunate as it changed paths to come directly over New Orleans. Our new generator was online and ready to respond to any power outages – we were much luckier than most and didn’t have any issues.
The winds and flooding weren’t too bad at all in our area. Thankfully a mild first hurricane experience.
We hosted an expanded Krewe for the Cowboys and Saints game on Sunday. Everyone brought delicious snacks and had a good time. Jeff and Merry Lee brought their “babies”, Jazz and Cali.
My lucky Cowboys jacket did not serve a good purpose, with the game quickly turning into a blowout for the Saints. You can imagine how much fun it is to be the only Cowboys fan in a house full of Saints fans with a huge lead.
All I could do was spend some time with the only non rabid Saints fan – she wouldn’t declare as a Cowboys fan either (a problem!)
I really did enjoy having a house full of good friends – that didn’t happen in McKinney.
An engagement, a hurricane and a football party at the house – that’s quite a week!
My book this week, “My Last Innocent Year” by Daisy Alpert Florin, was a recommendation from Fred. It is beautifully written, and has some big themes, just not what I expected from Fred – he just keeps us guessing. Here’s the online summary:
“It’s 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire. Desperate to shed her working-class roots and still mourning the death of her mother four years earlier, Isabel has always felt like an outsider at Wilder but now, in her final semester, she believes she has found her place―until a nonconsensual sexual encounter with one of the only other Jewish students on campus leaves her reeling.
Enter R. H. Connelly, a once-famous poet and Isabel’s writing professor, a man with secrets of his own. Connelly makes Isabel feel seen, beautiful, talented: the woman she longs to become. His belief in her ignites a belief in herself, and the two begin an affair that shakes the foundation of who Isabel thinks she is, for better and worse. As the lives of the adults around her slowly come apart, Isabel discovers that the line between youth and adulthood is less defined than she thought.
A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, Daisy Alpert Florin’s My Last Innocent Year is a timely and wise portrait of a young woman learning to trust her voice and move toward independence while recognizing the beauty and grit of where she came from.”
Here’s something interesting and different from Ikebe Shakedown:
Here’s what Discogs says about the band:
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Ikebe Shakedown plays with elements of cinematic soul, Afro-funk, deep disco, and boogaloo in all the right ways. The group has forged its unique sound together over four years, developing a mighty horn section anchored by tight, deep-pocketed grooves |
David Gilmour has a new album out that sounds really good:
Coexist peacefully, with kindness and patience for all!
We went for our visit to the NOAC on Saturday morning. I enjoyed a swim (before being ousted by the water aerobics ladies – got to pay attention to the schedule). I treated Diana to brunch at Elizabeth’s in the Bywater area after our visit. This is an excellent brunch restaurant – we loved our “pig candy” (praline bacon) and Florentine benedict with fried oysters.
