October Visitors

Last month, Fred and Josie came for a visit! We decided to be adventurous and try someplace other than Elizabeth's for breakfast... so we went to Russells Marina Grill for sweet potato pancakes and Egg's Ponchartrain. The food was pretty good ... not quite as decadent as Elizabeth's, but we'll definitly try it again.

We spent the day at Lafayette Square for the annual New Orleans Blues Festival, enjoying the weather, listening to good music, eating yummy New Orleans food like Red Beans and Rice, Crab and Spinach bread bowls, and Gelato, and watching the eccentric people of the Crescent City.

We also had dinner one night at Fisherman's Cove, indulging in boiled shrimp, Fried Pickles, and an Eggplant Pirogue (amazing fried eggplant topped with a crawfish and crab cream sauce).

Thanks for visiting Fred and Josie ... Come back again soon!

A wall of passion vines

Last year I started some passion vines from seeds from a couple Whole Foods passion fruits. I planted the little guys along side our patio last year, and they've been doing well since then. We had some old metal trellis placed along the patio, more to keep the dogs out of the edging than for their aesthetic nature.

So I asked Jeff to build me a wall of trellis for my passion vines.

After we put it up, we spent about an hour carefully removing the vines from the old trellis, and winding them through the new one. I'm planning to put glass pieces into some of the squares, but haven't gotten to it yet.

Hopefully this year we'll have a wall of passion flowers and fruit!