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Zev, Colin, Boo and Patty have posted their comments and I've added a personal update, scroll to read. In the interest of not junking this up with recipes, I've created ANOTHER blog - http://www.testcook.blogspot.com. Look to the right hand column for links and you will be able to just click on it. Otherwise, the easy way is to simply e-mail your comments and photos to me (kit@wohlco.com) and I can now easily post them since Zev fixed it.
Chef Robert, we need pictures of Camille and maybe your recipe for Blue Cheese Potato Chips. Conner, we need a picture of Moonie and Morgan, you too. Patty, could we see what you're knitting now? Robin, we need pictures of a clean up and Danielle, current photo of Maximum or Maximus or just plain Max. Hoss and Jackie, what's up at the Lake House? What finger joint are you working on now? Are you still quilting, Jackie?
FROM OZ
Post from Australia - Kathryn Johnson heading to her prom. Now she's in nursing school, a first for our side of the family and a good thing.
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA: BRIDGET JOHNSON
Christopher and Kathryn on are the home stretch of their semester finals. Both have been keeping their heads down and juggling computer sharing to get their semester assignments finished and turned in. This coming week is test week, so they've got that to do as well.
Kathryn took her clinical practice assessment yesterday. She had to prove she could take a pulse, count heatbeats, use a stethescope and give a shot. Earlier this week, they sent her home with an orange and a hypodermic needle and told her to practice giving shots to the orange.
They'll be on holidays in another week, so we're going to be having a fall housecleaning week - I haven't told them that yet - they'd run kicking and screaming. Kathryn has a habit of saving TV Week magazines which are littered in the thousands on her bedroom floor - at least some of them are going to go away.
I'm working on a new quilt. It's a quilt I promised Sandi and Colin for their wedding. Colin tells me they've been married four years now so it's about time I started the quilt. It will take me about 6 weeks to finish as I work on it a bit each day instead of going into marathon quilted sessions as I used to do. It's in blues, purples and greens in a Many Trips Around the World pattern.
Christopher has the next semester to finish and then he has a semester of taking only one unit to make up for neglecting to turn an assignment in on time during his first freshman semester which caused him to fail the course. Having learned that lesson, he now is diligent about getting assignments in on time. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines.
The animals are fine. Dante has taken to sleeping with me now that the cold weather is here. Pip and Timmy sleep with Myles. When we get up in the morning, the cats move to Christoper's bed and the dog follows Myles wherever he goes.
THE WOODLANDS: PATTY FOX
I was just going to leave for my yoga class when Morgan, to my surprise, got out of bed early! He needed my car to go up to school to interview for a job working with the maintenance crew over the summer (after his internship at St. Lukes Hospital in The Woodlands is over). His car is in the shop today (Colin, we need you to get well soon)and it is a good thing he caught me before I left. So now I have an excuse to put off exercising for an hour or so and post a Fox Family update.
Glenn and I went to the Sonoma area a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our 18th anniversary. We had a great time visiting wineries, vineyards, redwood forest, the coast and eating. We stayed in a charming B&B that had a beautiful rose garden and a huge koi pond.
Conner is at school running. He will be training with the Cross Country team again this summer up until his surgery. Our insurance company approved coverage, and hope to schedule it around June 19. He will spend the next 2 weeks working as a Counselor in Training at the school summer camp. Today he has CPR training(this could come in handy-just kidding-I hope).
Glenn is leaving in a week or so to visit his mother. Ann recently was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was detected at an early stage and her doctors believe the lumpectomy, a course of radiation treatments and medication will take care of it. Anyway, she is doing quite well.
Morgan is just back from his interview (that was fast) and he got the job! I have to go figure out what yoga class I can get to!
Where we'll be in North Egremont, pop. 200, after mid-July or during hurricane threats, we hope!
NEW ORLEANS: KIT WOHL
Billy and I are getting ready to have dinner tonight with Bob Rintz. Bonnie, his wife, passed away a few months ago of complications from kidney cancer in Los Angeles. Through fate, serendipity, really Bonnie's intervention, Bob says, he was able to buy a business here. He sold his LA house and moved here a couple of weeks ago. This evening, the two Bobs: Bob Wisnewski, who sold it, and Bob Rintz, who bought it, are taking us to dinner as thanks for passing along the e-mail offer to sell.
Linda Ellerbee just left after a week of shooting here, "Children of the Storm" for NICK News. She was able to take three days over the Memorial day weekend so we simply lolled about, cooked a dinner for her crew (barbecued shrimp, recipe to be posted soon) and laughed a lot.
Our hurricane escape plans are to leave here whenever a storm passes Cuba or Mexico and head for North Egremont, which is halfway between Manhattan and Boston in the Berkshires. We have made arrangements to rent the cottage next door to Linda and Rolfe's place on an as-needed basis. It was formerly the guest house and sold off long before Rolfe purchased the property. We are hoping to spend the entire month of August there, with two weeks on the end of July and two weeks at the beginning of September. If anyone needs a New Orleans vacation, our house here is yours. This current book deadline, for finished, recipe-tested composed and photographed, camera-ready art is July 17 so we'll head out as soon as we put that to bed.
If all goes well, there's a new laptop in my near future, so I can work on the architecture book up there while we enjoy the cool, the quiet and the mountains.
Kit
I was just going to leave for my yoga class when Morgan, to my surprise, got out of bed early! He needed my car to go up to school to interview for a job working with the maintenance crew over the summer (after his internship at St. Lukes Hospital in The Woodlands is over). His car is in the shop today (Colin, we need you to get well soon)and it is a good thing he caught me before I left. So now I have an excuse to put off exercising for an hour or so and post a Fox Family update.
Glenn and I went to the Sonoma area a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our 18th anniversary. We had a great time visiting wineries, vineyards, redwood forest, the coast and eating. We stayed in a charming B&B that had a beautiful rose garden and a huge koi pond.
Conner is at school running. He will be training with the Cross Country team again this summer up until his surgery. Our insurance company approved coverage, and hope to schedule it around June 19. He will spend the next 2 weeks working as a Counselor in Training at the school summer camp. Today he has CPR training(this could come in handy-just kidding-I hope).
Glenn is leaving in a week or so to visit his mother. Ann recently was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was detected at an early stage and her doctors believe the lumpectomy, a course of radiation treatments and medication will take care of it. Anyway, she is doing quite well.
Morgan is just back from his interview (that was fast) and he got the job! I have to go figure out what yoga class I can get to!
Where we'll be in North Egremont, pop. 200, after mid-July or during hurricane threats, we hope!
NEW ORLEANS: KIT WOHL
Billy and I are getting ready to have dinner tonight with Bob Rintz. Bonnie, his wife, passed away a few months ago of complications from kidney cancer in Los Angeles. Through fate, serendipity, really Bonnie's intervention, Bob says, he was able to buy a business here. He sold his LA house and moved here a couple of weeks ago. This evening, the two Bobs: Bob Wisnewski, who sold it, and Bob Rintz, who bought it, are taking us to dinner as thanks for passing along the e-mail offer to sell.
Linda Ellerbee just left after a week of shooting here, "Children of the Storm" for NICK News. She was able to take three days over the Memorial day weekend so we simply lolled about, cooked a dinner for her crew (barbecued shrimp, recipe to be posted soon) and laughed a lot.
Our hurricane escape plans are to leave here whenever a storm passes Cuba or Mexico and head for North Egremont, which is halfway between Manhattan and Boston in the Berkshires. We have made arrangements to rent the cottage next door to Linda and Rolfe's place on an as-needed basis. It was formerly the guest house and sold off long before Rolfe purchased the property. We are hoping to spend the entire month of August there, with two weeks on the end of July and two weeks at the beginning of September. If anyone needs a New Orleans vacation, our house here is yours. This current book deadline, for finished, recipe-tested composed and photographed, camera-ready art is July 17 so we'll head out as soon as we put that to bed.
If all goes well, there's a new laptop in my near future, so I can work on the architecture book up there while we enjoy the cool, the quiet and the mountains.
Kit
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