FORTY THREE!

that’s how cold it’s supposed to get on thursday in vienna. fortunately we won’t be there yet. brrr. it’s weird to think about cold weather.

FORTY THREE!

that’s how cold it’s supposed to get on thursday in vienna. fortunately we won’t be there yet. brrr. it’s weird to think about cold weather.

Wo ist die Toilette?

THAT’S what you say when you need to find a bathroom in austria! now BADEZIMMER, because my friend gary wrote to me and said that if you say that, people will think you want to take a BATH. whew, i’m glad i learned that very very important piece of information before...

JUST TWO MORE PHOTOS…

first, an apartment block designed by wagner: this place is a mile and a half from our hotel in vienna. so we can just stroll down there. and take many photos, so you’ll see some just-taken photos in…oh, in a while, realistically. in a month or so. and this is...

THE PROBLEM WITH RESEARCHING THINGS…

is that now i feel that we have to stay in vienna for at least a WEEK in order to see all the wonderful things there. i’d thought we’d have time to see the major sights – the schonbrunn palace, which looks like versailles, the opera house, a cathedral, the...

a couple more li’l abner photos

here are the four couples in the play; this is after the husbands have all taken their yokumberry tonic and become hunkified. the women are dressed, of course, in their finest traveling finery. the wives are, left to right – vickie, kim, loretta, and fran. the...

friday afternoon

it’s rainy and dark and the only reason i’m not napping is because i got plenty of sleep last night. we’re about to go see “mr. bean’s holiday,” and i hope to see many other movies this weekend. we RODE OUR BIKES yesterday, all the way to chatham, about a...

get moving, please

the play was a success. i have one very funny photo that i need to put up here, but i don’t have time right now. maybe later. the party, too, was a success but why do i have to obsess so much about cleaning the house before a party? perhaps if i’d try to clean on a...

BEV!!!

i was going to write this yesterday but caught up in a whirlwind of cleaning, because we’re having a cast party tonight. yesterday morning bev, a delightful, funny, and incredibly multi-talented woman, who also plays multiple roles in “li’l abner”...

LAXADASICAL

yeah yeah yeah i know that’s not how you spell it. it’s LACKADAISICAL, but i feel there should be an “s” sound there in the middle. so. that’s how i’m feeling. the show opened and it went well but then it got hotter and hotter and by sunday night i was...

OPENING NIGHT!

there’s lots of reasons for ALL CAPS as well as exclamation points! this week. tonight our play “li’l abner” opens. it’s going to be hot. very hot. right now it’s 92 degrees. tomorrow or sunday it’s supposed to reach 103. and yet last night linda, our...

SURPRISE!!!!!

it was a SURPRISE PARTY for kevin’s 50th birthday on saturday! this is what he looked like walking into my parents’ house. that last entry i typed on saturday, i only did it because i thought kevin would check the site and i wanted to make SURE HE DIDN’T KNOW. but i...

RAIN

it’s raining, buckets. we did a lot of fencing this morning and then we ate a lot of mexican food at lunch, plus the cupcakes i brought with the very delicious chocolate frosting, and soon we’re going to amy and jim’s house for pizza and yet more food. it would be...

thursday

and all is well. kevin got back from colorado springs at 5:45 last night, and we left for rehearsal at 6:15. perhaps he’ll get unpacked before we take a trip in september. but maybe not. here’s a very official-looking photo from his last day of fencing coaches...