How is it possible that we are here and not there?

Live Blog @ the Gardian UK post O's speech

Moloch65

25 Feb 09, 3:58am (11 minutes ago)

..."the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it".

So he's President of Germany now is he?

I've heard this claptrap a few times over the last few months. They'll be claiming rockets, hovercraft, gin, bungalows, the wheel and sexual reproduction before long.

Just because Chrysler got bought - and unceremoniously dumped as a basket case - by the company that DID invent the motor car doesn't mean that Messers Daimler and Benz are retrospective US citizens...

And this is the most intelligent US politician in decades? Gawd 'elp us!

Ahhhhhhhhh!

TO BE YOUNG AGAIN!

Serena it is!

Who else would be hiking in Brazil? How the Clark's friends made the connection - I have no clue.

hazarding a guess

Sophie Beal? My highschool roomate? or Serena perhaps?

Seaside - and small world

It's not so easy being back in the land of snow and ice - but at least the sun comes up earlier. Here's a quiz: I called the Clarks this morning to tell them we were back and had had such a good time in their Dreams. He said a friend of theirs mentioned that he had met someone last sumnmer who knew the Browns of Sharon, CT. Who was it? Clue: they met this person while hiking in Brazil.

THANKS

THANKS TO ALL THE BROWNS AND KIN AND KITH FOR A MARVELOUS TIME IN SEASIDE

WE ARE IN SEASIDE

Today is beautiful, sunny and fairly warm. Pictures to follow. Malcolm

Misc

I tried the bread recipe on Saturday and was completely unsuccessful. The recipe did not call for extensive kneading so I did not do it. May I should have? Maybe the yeast was not fresh enough? I am going to stick with the bread maker.

I am not sure I will last until Saturday. I am so burned out and exhausted. Tired of getting up before dark - at least now it is light before I leave the house. I may just sit and stare at the ocean and worry about Oliver's foot. He still has a very impressive limp. I have to figure out what to acquire (and when!) in terms of a hard soled shoe that he can move to after the air cast. I will try to muster the energy for games!

Amazing how Alan Johnson can look the same year after year after year.

It is currently 68 in Seaside. I hope the weather holds!

5 days and counting...

Hi All,
Been a while since I have posted, and just thought I'd say hello. Lots about breadmaking on here lately... I shall have to try my hand at the NOLA crew recipe. We cannot wait to see everyone in sunny seaside. All is well with ruairi and i. Last weekend, we moved back into our off and on housesitting job. We are so very happy to be back:) We are quite charmed at the moment. Both our jobs are going well, and word from nursing schools is starting to roll in! Very exciting time, and we will have some choices to make in the next few weeks. Today is a beautiful and warm day in Beantown (relatively speaking of course) We are very excited for the even more beautiful and warm Florida weather. Hope that everyone is well
love,
c and r

We Found him

Chatting it up at the Boulder CO., UCC church where his wife preaches pious pieties. He looked very well but we did not get any of his bread.

Small world!

Charlie and I saw Alan Johnson in December. We went to Boulder First Congregational Church where Alan's wife, Martie, is the minister. Pat Horst is a member there. As we expected, Alan went to the coffee after church. We had a pleasant conversation, shortened because there were other people who were waiting to talk with Alan. He really connects with people and that is why he went to work in a bread shop instead of retiring to an ivory tower. He asked if Malcolm is still First Selectman. It is nice that you (L&M) got to renew your friendship and catch up on news of interim years.

Hey, we are counting in days, not weeks, to the time to join you in FL!!
Love,
Ann

Does anyone remember this man?

Of course---this is the Rev. Alan Johnson, liberal minister. Amazing, but there are a few of those around---you know the kind who will listen to all sorts of viewpoints. After a few wanderings in life, he became the Chaplain to Denver Children's Hospital. Now he is married to a minister--and bakes bread, especially biscotti for a living. He has a book in the works, something about the ministry and baking bread.

After befriending us, and moving on, he performed the wedding ceremony for Lucia and Thaddeus. He came to visit us recently, while also visiting our mutual friend Martha Porter, now aged 94. We took Martha out to dinner recently with other friends, and I hit my THIRD DEER for the winter. The insurance guy in Hartford said dolefully that this is covered under the portion of your insurance that covers Acts of God. I don't think Alan had anything to do with it.

Malcolm

Good News!

Thanks for the update on Oliver. Now it is important that he be careful not to overload because the disuse could have weakened the long bones. Slow and steady will win this race.

Oliver

He got the plaster cast off yesterday and is back in the air cast. The goal is for his foot to feel better enough by next Saturday that he will be cast free when we leave. Who knew how stiff and sore a foot would get after being in a cast for so long. Ouch!

very easy (and perfect) bread.

mix 6.5 cups of flour, 3 cups of water, 3 tablespoons of salt, and 3 tablespoons of yeast. let it rise for 40 minutes, then stick it in the fridge. let it sit in there overnight. take half the dough out and let it sit for 40 minutes, then bake
it at 450 for 30-35 minutes. leave a tray of water in the oven with it. the other half can stay in the fridge until you're ready for it.

other than that, we might be getting a house in the Marigny. Replete with tenant. Might be. A friend of ours discovered that it is to be auctioned tomorrow, but he is having trouble lining up the cash, so the deal is that if he gets it at or below a certain price, but can't get the money in time, we will buy it from him. sound crazy? I don't think he'll get it, but I'll be sure to keep y'all posted...

Sounds Terriffic!

You folks up in "Icelend" deserve a change. Too bad there is a problem in bringing all that venison that Malcolm has been collecting. We expect to leave here Sunday morning. We'll bring our Bananagrams!

Switch?

After taking the virtual tour, I think L&M, A&C and E&B should take American Dream - 2 BRs on the bottom and 1 in the loft. They other one (Another Dream) has one BR on the bottom and 2 in the loft - maybe best for Thompsons. I guess it will be obvious when we get there.

Florida Here We Come!

I'm back! I'll send Brooke and Eliot and Ann and Charlie a map and directions as to how to find Seaside and the two cottages: American Dream and Another Dream. If you want to take a virtual tour, go to seasidefl.com; Click on link to rental agencies; click on residences and scroll to cottage name. American Dream is in front and Another Dream behind. My thought is to put L&M, A&C and B&E in Another Dream - there is a bedroom on each floor (oh yes, and a hot tub and a tower.) and everyone else in American Dream. In American Dream, there are two bedrooms on the bottom floor and a loft bedroom on the third floor. Anyone who wants to rearrange: tell me.

There's a Publix grocery store ten minutes away. There are tennis courts and two heated pools - one covered. There is a bike rental place, and the bookstore has free wi-fi for anyone chained to a computer.

The Clarks said the airport is about an hour away - thirty miles. On the beach: if you go in one direction, there's a state park. In the other: there's nothing -- walk forever. Snow and ice here. We're ready for a change.