Valentine's Day, Presidents, Mardi Gras (this year). . .

And this is the best I can come up with in the reddish color schemes available.

It was a generally rainy, icky day--but the rain limited itself to when I was either in the car or inside. It stopped raining when I needed to be outside.

And, today was near the top of the IUD list until I was almost home.

I got stopped by the drawbridge, which doesn't open much to begin with, and almost never after dark. While it wasn't totally dark when I got on the bridge, it was getting there rapidly. And what needed the bridge opened? A barge with a really big crane on it needed to pass through. This is just one of the several barges that are currently working on the new Twin Span bridges of I-10. Plans are that they will be 30 feet above the water, in hopes that storm surges won't be able to knock the spans all over the place, as Katrina did.

When I got home, my little Lady cat was waiting to greet me--and so was the light orange cat that's been hanging around. As I left this morning I had a view of him that verified my assumption that he was a he. And he is a total "he" as the smell of his spraying will testify. Too bad he doesn't know those cute little girl cats here will NEVER be receptive to his "advances."




(And for those who wonder why my area is not "back to normal" seventeen months after Katrina, here's a letter from someone who lives up north, but has been down here several times.)