Random thoughts

No fair just teasing us. The sun was out last Saturday. Today it is so rainy, a Gulf Coast kind of rain, a gulley washer, hair-washing rain. Check out our weather. I was so excited when we walked around the city on Saturday. It seemed as though there was a rebirth of sorts. Lots of people were out, the restaurants started putting chairs and tables outside, people started wearing colors again (not all black, gray and dark green). It has warmed up too. So last night was the first night in months that I slept with the window open. But I had forgotten how noisy it can be!

They took away the Green Monster. They have these big green barrels all over town where one can put empty glass bottles for recycling. One of these things will fill up in less than a week because the French are very serious about wine-drinking. Around the holidays, the barrel would fill and people would place their bottles on the ground around it. Amazing how many empty wine bottles there were. Well, on Monday of this week, a big truck pulled up outside my window and took away the Green Monster. Creatures of habit are still dumping their bottles on the street where the barrel used to be. What will I do now with my bottles?

Paul is studying for his driving test. France will accept a drivers license from a few select US states. Texas is not one of them so you have a year to drive with your old license while you attempt to get your French one. Everyone says that it’s a killer test. (Paul has been driving for nearly 40 years and has never had an accident.) So we borrowed the CDs “code de la route pour les nulls” (Driving Rules for Dummies) from one of our American friends who recently passed the test. I will keep you posted on the progress of this endeavor. Problem is, May 6th is when the year is up!

LSU will beat UCLA and I hope they aren’t cry-babies and go into denial as did USC when the LSU football team won the championship a few years back. A note to all my UCLA friends (one at last count): LSU will win. They showed the Florida/Villanova game on TV yesterday afternoon. This morning, they are again showing ‘March Madness’ . . . yeah, Florida/Villanova again. -