Monday, 02SEP, son Joe & Tasha hosted a Labor Day BBQ for members of Joe’s family, Tasha’s parents & grandmother, & miscellaneous friends & co-workers. It was good food & good company; with grandson Jaxson being the only smart one spending most of the time in the kiddie pool. After that a few of us headed to Cold Stone Creamery for a little dessert that wasn’t really needed. Unfortunately Joe goes back to work for two weeks offshore tomorrow.
Monday, 09SEP, Corrie had minor medical issue requiring an unplanned visit to the local hospital. Thankfully it was nothing significant & solved. But the next day Tuesday, was another unplanned situation with Joe’s house AC acting up on Tasha. Turns out the outside unit needed cleaning big time; but the technician also discovered that new unit installed before Joe bought house was too “big” for the existing ducting & the ducting needs to be increased to make entire system more efficient!
Thursday, 12SEP, we headed into the CG base at Michoud NASA facility in east New Orleans for Corrie’s new ID. The supposed simple task of issuing a new ID did not go well & we will be required to return at the end of the month! As we were driving away from the base we stopped for lunch at Dong Phuong Bakery Restaurant that we had just seen on PBS TV about the Vietnam community in New Orleans. Many of New Orleans finest chefs hang out here.
For desert Dan headed to Hansen’s Sno-Bliz shop in New Orleans where the sno-ball was NOT invented, but the mechanical ice shaving machine was -
“Hansen's Sno-Bliz was first conceived during one typically hot New Orleans summer day during the Great Depression. Ernest Hansen and his older son were trying to cool off outside when a man pushing a snoball cart wheeled by. Ernest, although tempted by the frozen treat, disapproved of the lack of cleanliness of the operation as each snoball was shaved by hand from a large block of ice. Being a master machinist, he envisioned a machine that would hold and shave ice cleanly and safely. Ernest promptly set about building one, earning U.S. Patent 2525923."
"His wife, Mary Hansen, a shrewd businesswoman and fantastic Italian cook, created her own line of syrups. In 1939 Hansen's Sno-Bliz began serving its first snoballs under a Chinaball tree on the sidewalk outside of Mary's mother's house on St. Ann Street. Back then, a snoball was 2 cents, an exorbitant price for the time, and was served in a little cardboard tray. After a short time on Valmont Street, they moved to Hansen's current location on Tchoupitoulas Street in 1944.”
http://www.dpbanhmi.com/DP_Bakery/Welcome.html
http://snobliz.com/
http://hongkongmarketnola.com/
Tuesday, 17SEP, Joe was back in town, so Dan helped him start on the shed/shop that Joe had a concrete slab poured for back in August. They were able to frame three walls & get them up. Wednesday, 18SEP, Raymond helped out on the shed/shop. The three of them get the fourth wall done, along with one roof truss. They would have got more done but it took a little time to remember high school trigonometry to get the angles right on the trusses – remember side opposite divided by side adjacent! Then Tasha made an excellent dinner for everyone including Oma, Rebecca, & Jaxson.
Thursday Dan & Joe get all the rafters up except the last two because of another of Louisiana’s fall rain squalls. Friday, 20SEP, Raymond was back to help Joe & Dan sheath 3 & 1/4 walls and the entire roof of Joe’s shop/shed. Saturday was more bad rain, so not much was done on Joe’s shed/shop. Tasha made another delicious dinner for her parents & us.
Sunday, 22SEP, Joe, Raymond, & Dan finished the walls & roof sheathing; then Dan & Joe installed hurricane clips.
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