Not done yet?

Doug are u done yet?

What shall I call this dessert?

Thanks Doug for the Show & more.

Doug,
You were thoughtful to not leave out anyone's pic, as far as I could see.
Everyone pitched in to cause a wonderful meal & companionship.
Maggie Gibbon Masek was ill with her COPD (breathing issues),
but she is thankful to have been there with loving family.
We are most thankful for the Rive Ladies & Bella for their major
domo efforts to get those birds done just right & all the fixings.

I plan to post the pic of Doug hiding the huge "COMBO DESSERT PLATTER",
that took him 30 mins. to consume.
Doug took the cake on that one.

Our Best to you all for Christmas & the Other Holidays,
Jim Masek (for Maggie Gibbon Masek)

Views from "A Giant"

(thanks L & C!)

Three Dozen Cozens...

...warts 'n all.

turkey gobbling, cider guzzling, teeth cleaning,
cheek glowing and pinching, facemaking,
guffawing, merrymaking!

[it's a slide show... click the Play arrow under
the picture, and start countin cousins!]


[ps >>> (3x12)-3]

Thanksgiving ought ate

Beth and Simon, Zoey, Emma
where to eat is no dilemma.

They'll join Tom and Joy and Nell and Bella
and poor Tom Turkey, most unhappy fella.

Doug and Lynne, Soren and Wyatt
down to try the Sharksmouth diet.

As are Jim and Judy, fresh from Greece,
wouldn't miss it (seconds, please!)

John, Jeanette, EJ and Lias
Manchester is their clear bias.

Schatzie and Mike -- time out from tennis
come to see how tough the hen is.

While Ric and Martha, Annie, Rose
eat this and that and autrechose.

With Mark and Ella, Xave and Nya
from the Barr House -- good to see ya.

Larry and Charlotte, from the Hopkinson tree,
but so far back it's hard to see.

Arthur, Sylvia, Elizabeth and Meggy
from Somerville now (are the drumsticks leggy?)

Jim and Maggie and Charlie (cousin)
and that, dear friends, is our three dozen!

-- CHS --

As promised...

Alright, I guess the awesome spide-o-lantern will do. Here's Hiromi and me at my school's Hallowe'en party. I'm a Sherpa.

And an update to go with

Well, if anyone is wondering what became of the conference I posted about so long ago, it went quite well. My audience was kind and supportive, and asked useful questions. I must say, it was really scary, though. Now I'm applying for graduate school. I'm applying to a couple in Mass., so perhaps I will see some of you more often next school year.

It's Halloween, and I do have a costume but currently no digital camera. So I'll make you a deal: if someone else posts a costume picture of themselves (ideally from this year, but any year will do), I'll post a picture after I get someone else to take one.

My goodness I forgot all about this thing..

So today for the first time in ages I posted to my linguistics undergrads collective blog, and noticed that I apparently had another blog. Wondering whether it was possible to be spammed into a membership in some kind of advertising blog, I clicked on it, with some trepidation. OH RIGHT, I thought, the Manch blog. I don't think I ever posted to this thing.

And then I noticed that there was a tag for linguistics. Linguistics?! I thought, is someone writing about me? So I read the post, and apparently I wrote a little update about my life. And now I'm thinking, you know, my neighbours smoke a fair bit of pot. And the smoke does sneak into my apartment sometimes. Isn't marijuana supposed to be bad for cognition?

Which is all to say, maybe we should send out a reminder to the members of the blog that they belong to it!

OK, everyone knows where this is, right?

Surely... someone...

...recognizes where this was shot. Some may even know when!

a stormy scene...

Curt "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth

Did people know about this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Devereaux

I've never seen that tv show but I'd be tempted to watch it now just to see Big Daddy!

So, like, what's up?

Hello everybody! I checked the blog today hoping that for some reason my feed reader just wasn't showing people's posts.. but alas, nobody replied to Hallie's question! Apart from my medium brother, who just added some punctuation.

So I'll do it. Where am I? I'm still in Ireland, living in Dublin and working in Naas, a small town outside Dublin. I finally got a job, I'm working as a geotechnical engineer. I was hired for a specific project looking at the underfloor infill of already-constructed houses, so there isn't much variety in what I do, but I get to go out to site quite often and look at rocks and do a few tests. After 3 months I'm still liking it (moreso right now because the one negative of my job - a certain colleague - is away on holiday!).

The next little while will be pretty busy, since I'll be moving apartments and going to Denmark to visit mother and mother's mother, and then finally going to Manch at the end of August when the kids all get to hang out!

Oh, I'll add a few photos because I've just learned how to..

This is the site's resident dog keeping me company while all the builders go away on their tea break.

Three pictures from a place called Culmullen. Paused to look at a map and take some pictures, because I was hopelessly lost coming home from my first solo site visit.

I hope others will update, I do like the idea of this blog!

So, like, where IS everybody?

Response from Mark Fischer

Mark sent this to me because he couldn't access Gen 4 and more and nor could he cc this to everybody because I had hidden the names in the e-mail most of you should have received from me. (For some people I had only an old e-address, and the e-mail came back.)

Dear Hallie and all —

For some reason the blogspot didn't even come up when I clicked it — I wonder if there's a technical  problem or is there something about it (our family's liberal leanings perhaps ?)  the Chinese want to censor so I can't bring it up from here in Beijing? :)

The earthquake is quite sad and scary — aftershocks apparently continuing as recently as yesterday — and sitting here in 19th floor office we felt it (actually a reaction to it — a smaller quake closer to Beijing) as the building swayed, making most of us queasy before we all evacuated.  There are a lot of charity efforts ongoing, but otherwise everyone's back about their business here in Beijing. Where meanwhile mixed in with excitement and pride about China's coming out party, there is a growing uneasiness leading up to the Olympics, ie, what else can go wrong before or during the Games?

With love to all from the other side of the world!

Mark

Elias Rive in the News

"Elias Rive, 66, came to Copake from a sister community in Ireland. After close to 40 years working as a dairy farmer, he decided to retire and spoke enthusiastically about courses he has taken this year at Columbia Greene Community College in fly tying and casting. "I have met so many new fishing buddies. When trout season opens we'll go to a number of different creeks. We'll have our exam at the creek," he said. Elias still performs with the Camphill bell choir on Monday nights."

for the rest of the article, go to 

http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfmnewsid=19379702&BRD=248&PAG=461&dept_id

=46234&rfi=8

Seattle - quickly becoming a new family hub

Seattle - as the title of this post shows - is quickly becoming a new, 'fab' family hub.

Thanks to Torbjorn's "love of the west", and freedom from the laziness-enducing University merely 3 years ago, Torbjorn is finally visiting Seattle as if it is a third - or fourth to fifth - home.

Here's a rather unflattering photo of the 'adults' and Christine (between Elinor and me) at the Rockhold's place.



We as well visited them just last weekend via the Victoria ferry to Pt. Angeles. I don't have photos from the small BBQ that visit, but if someone does I recommend they post them up or provide some links.

The Appels have shown nothing but endless love for Christine and me.

**The End.

NEWS FLASH! THIS JUST IN!

George Appel is running for the position of Judge of the Superior Court of Snohomish County.

His campaign is being ably managed by his wife Hoa.  He is happy to have any and all support.

You can go to georgeappelforjudge.com to read all about him.