Month: June 2021

As you know, we do not go out to eat all that often unless we are traveling. But every now and then, we do go out. This time we decided to try a new restaurant called HoOk & ReEL. It is a Cajun seafood restaurant with a fun and friendly ambiance and atmosphere and very good food to boot.

If you are from the South, you know it is a fun, festive feast when everyone is getting messy together. The seafood boil has been bringing people together for ages. “At Hook & Reel [their] signature boil forks over bold flavors with a genuine, down-home feel. But eating seafood is only part of the fun. Everything tastes better elbow-to-elbow with friends, swapping stories over music, getting down and dirty and eating with your hands – all with a cold drink at the ready, ‘cause that spice ain’t no joke. [They]…

A couple of days ago, Juneau had an accident in the house and I thought I had cleaned it all up. But apparently, I didn’t clean it up as well as I thought, and I slipped and fell, hitting my ribs on the bottom of the stairs. It was very painful indeed and it has been very difficult to move around a lot. I did not go to the doctor that day, in hopes that it would get better. It did a little bit, but then last night it was excruciating. Today it got even worse, and I was having difficulty breathing, so I thought I had better go to the doctor, just to make sure I didn’t puncture a lung. The good news is there are no broken or cracked ribs, only badly bruised. So they still hurt, but at lest now I have peace of mind. They gave…