A Nice Muff

As is typical for a Friday, there were only a few of us up on the levee this morning, but along the course of our 26 miles we picked up a few others, including Mark and Reo. I took the long way home, riding all the way down the bike path to Audubon Park where the Zoo was preparing for it's official re-opening today. They won't be back to their regular schedule yet, and will only be open on weekends. It's hard to believe that it has been nearly three months since Mother Nature squashed my city.

Later in the day we drove downtown because The Wife wanted to check out the recently re-opened Riverwalk shopping center. Unable to think of an excuse quickly enough, I reluctantly went along. It was rather a disappointment, however, as most of the shops, and indeed all of the larger ones, have still not re-opened. So we ended up walking down to the French Quarter where Cafe du Monde was doing a brisk business today. The Quarter was fairly busy and after checking out the flea market down by the French Market, I started getting hungry. I had noticed that Central Grocery was closed, so we went down to Napoleon House and split a half-muffuletta. Nothing like biting into a nice warm muff, eh? They are offering only a limited menu, but of course it includes muffelettas, gumbo, red beans and rice, etc. The temporary menu has "MRE" in big letters at the top. Below, it says "Muffelettas Ready to Eat." The table next to us was occupied by Corps of Engineers Red-Shirters.

Late in the day we decided to play postman and hand-deliver some Psychiatry party invitations to folks with addresses in the neighborhood. The post office is still not delivering mail around here very regularly (we have yet to receive anything), although I was able to pick up a few items of mail at the post office myself this morning.

So it sounds like the Psychiatry department will be moving out of my house and back into the Tidewater Building on Canal Street on Monday. I won't be able to help, though, because I have two back-to-back meetings, coincidentally also on Canal St.

I'm a year older today. Feels more like two!