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Kim and I had lunch today in Covington. Kim is the second blogger I’ve met now. She told me I was her first. Cool. I offered her a couple of places we could meet and she chose my favorite place. We had lunch at New Orleans Food & Spirits. One of the many things I like about this place is the generous portions. There is almost always something left over, especially if you order the VooDoo Crawfish Rolls. I did. More on that in a minute. We then walked over to St John's Coffeehouse and chatted a while. We walked around Covington a bit afterwards but the debris, heat, and traffic made this a little less enjoyable than it usually is. Kim is as lovely and gracious in person as she is on her blog. (She has turkeys on hers, too). It was a real treat. Thanks, Kim. Have a safe drive back to Lafayette and then Austin.

Speaking of Lafayette, I was driving home from said lunch with what was going to be supper for me. It was the leftover Pasta Lafayette. When I left work yesterday afternoon, I brought my notebook home with me. It’s a rather large spiral-bound notebook. I threw it on the front seat. When I got back in my truck to go home this afternoon, I used the seat belt to strap my camera in and I let the lunch container rest under the belt. I figured that was enough to hold it in the event of a sudden stop. Maybe it would have been had the Styrofoam container been resting on my cloth seat. It was resting on my notebook. As I made the what-should-have-been-predictable sudden stop, my still warm lunch shot off of that notebook on to the floor mat. Thankfully, it stayed on the floor mat but it was in sight all the way home. The sight of it, the delicious smell of it, and the dejection I felt about the overwhelming brilliance of resting it on the notebook made for a very long ride home. The wildlife at CrabAppleLane is eating good in the neighborhood. Pictured is Pasta Lafayette, which is pasta, Parmesan cheese, garlic, some other spices, and shrimp. It comes with a choice of meats. That’s a blackened ribeye steak cooked medium and either garlic bread or buttered bread.