Still Alive

I actually am alive and kicking. I also am actually extremely lazy.

Some highlights of the last unblogged month or so (make that the last week or so. As I said, I'm lazy.):

~Driving out to NY for Easter weekend. The family left about noon Friday, and Aaron and I followed later. I really enjoyed the five hours with him, even if his driving did occasionally make me nervous. (For those of you who don't know, he got his license a few weeks ago, and he really is an excellent driver.) During the times when he was driving, I entertained myself by reading old journals, an entertaining experience. "I always carry my diary with me. One must have something sensational to read on the train." (Rough paraphrase from "The Importance of being Earnest."

~Chatting with chicken-pocked Becca. She's quite an interesting conversationalist when she can sit still long enough!

~Playing Cranium with Ben, Katherine, Klara, Cara, and Aaron. Katherine wowing us all by unscrambling some random phrase into Oprah Winfrey at the last minute.

~Conspiring with Ben and Aaron to scare Cara and Klara while they were out tending to goats. (Fire crackers are quite effective.)

~Listening to Joe and Allouette Anderson's stories.

~Just visiting with close friends.

~Coming home. It's good to visit, but better to be home.

Only in New Hampshire

This evening over dinner my family was talking about the half a million protesters in Syria. Daddy mentioned how tempting it must be for Israel to send over a missile to wipe out all those terrorists in one fell swoop. Mama wanted to know how close Lebanon was and what it's relationship was to Israel.

"Would that be like Canada to us?"

"Nah, much more hostile. Sort of like Vermont." or something like that.

Earlier this evening we were trying to think of a way to stop Massachusetts drivers and liberals from moving up here.

As Stephen Vincent Benet wrote in "The Devil and Daniel Webster," "And he [the devil]hasn't been seen in the state of New Hampshire from that day to this. I'm not talking about Massachusetts or Vermont."

New Hampshirites sound a bit hostile, but we're really quite friendly.

Live free or die!

Oh yeah, and I'm back. Jet lag's almost gone, and England seems far away. :-(
But I made risotto today, and that made me think of making it with Karena. My pictures come tomorrow!!! (exclamatin points)

Last Post from England

Karena told Lexie today that I'm going home tomorrow. In the saddest of tones, Lexie replied, "I'm sorry."
I'm not! (I"m allowing myself one exclamation point per posting) I'm going to miss the Weisses, and I have truly enjoyed staying with them and seeing England, but it will be good to be home. I hear that I'm flying into a very snowy New England, so I'll know I'm home right away.

I definitely have enjoyed England. Some of the highlights were:
~Chatting with Karena
~Talking and playing Lexie
~Seeing Arthur smile
~Long walks around town
~Standing at the bottom of King's Chapel and looking up
~Trinity's courtyard and chapel
~Lunches out with Karena and Lexie
~Bumping into two people I knew (or at least had been introduced to by karena) while in town, made me
feel like a native Brit.
~Tea with John, Laura, Xanthe, Otis, and Ianthe.
~Driving on the wrong side of the road
~People watching while in town
~Walking through Clare and St. John
~Watching "24" with Charlie and Karena, listening to Charlie's excited commentary

This is getting long....I think that as the taxi is coming at six tomorrow and my bags are all packed, I will retire. Signing off from this side of the pond...