Mostly whimsy and drivel of no consequence. And CHEESE.
Chez David & Julianne
27May2007 Filed under: Blood is Thicker..., LIVESTRONG Author: Kate BartholomewI’ve been dreadfully remiss in posting. Yes, indeed.
I’m realizing that if I did a search on my site for that very phrase (“remiss in posting”) I’d probably get 563 hits. (Many thanks of gratitude to the Department of Redundancy Department for that statistic.)
It’s just that I’ve been so busy at Chez David & Julianne – doing VERY scientific slumber tests on their guest bed, generously eating all the home cooked healthy food proffered to me – you get the idea. It’s awfully hard work, as you can imagine.
Also, since I left my (BRAND NEW!!!!) camera at Senator Hatch’s office on LIVESTRONG® Day (Wednesday, May 16, 2007!) and have yet to have a chance to fetch it, David has been at my beck and command taking photos for me. I’ve developed a very streamlined system for this: I cry out, “Photographer – PHOTOGRAPHER – Please take a pictures of that cannon ball (or that jail or Peek-a-Boo Radley sitting by the gnomes or Peek-a-Boo Radley in the officers barracks or Peek-a-Boo Radley with the park ranger).” Okay – that’s not entirely true: Sometimes I do not say “please.”
I obviously need and intend to write all about LIVESTRONG® Day, as well as Chez David & Julianne (though I have to be VERY circumspect regarding that subject, as – remember – DAVID MAY HAVE TO KILL ME if I misspeak).
I should also write about Washington, D.C., Maryland (especially Baltimore, Catonsville Music City, Maryland, and Ellicott City). Ill get to it.
For now Ill just provide one preview image of LIVESTRONG® Day:
Kermit & Kate, Utah Delegates, LIVESTRONG® Day 2007
Photo and Crane by Fred
In concurrence with my standard “KATE DETESTS AND ABHORS PICTURES OF HERSELF” protocol, I am not going to tell you which individual is me. I will, however, give you one hint: I am not African-American.
michael
May 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
sooooo, you were/are in DC? Do you not realize how close to NJ that really is? Just because there are 3 states between the two, they are not Utah sized states. We would have come to see you… but alas, you will have to wait until we are in UT again, and who knows how long that might be?
Hope you had a good time. 🙂
Thomas
May 29th, 2007 at 6:59 am
I’m no joiner, but I am a supporter.
My Mom and Dad were smokers back when smoking was pretty much REQUIRED if your were an American. 2003, Dad died from lung cancer that had spread to every part of his body. Mom was “lucky”, she died in 2006 from heart failure brought on by a previous triple bypass necessitated by arterial plaque from the cigarettes.
I think it’s every American’s right to smoke if they want to… That is if they “want to” screw up their health, screw up their families, screw up the insurance companies (footing the bill for their self-destructive lifestyles) and screw up the minds of their impressionable grandkids, some of whom were smokiing after their Grandparents’ funerals.
More power to you and your cause.
terry
May 29th, 2007 at 7:04 am
*claps hands in glee*
A picture of Kate! Clearly, the one with the curly reddish hair! I ruv you Kate!
Kate
May 29th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Dear Thomas:
Thanks so much for your comment. I’m truly sorry about your parents. A good friend of mine lost her in February (he was a former smoker) to lung cancer that had spread: That entry is here.
If you come back soon, I’m going to tell people a way to be a “joiner” without really being a “joiner.” That will make more sense later….
Kate
P.S. Lance Armstrong expressed his opinion that smoking should be outlawed at a big press conference we had
Kate
May 29th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
SHHHHHH, Terry!!!
Don’t tell people which one is me!
I really do take dreadful pictures. And often I inadvertantly end up with just one ear of the top of my head or something in a picture. And, because it was LIVESTRONG® Day, I DELIBERATELY changed positions when some man with big hair came and stood in front of me. Anyway, I guess being un-photogenic is one of my special skills?
But thank you for clapping, just the same. XOXOXOXOXOXO
jenny
May 30th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Terry, don’t let Kate fool you. She’s the one with the grey pompadour and beard/moustache combo.
Somebody had to speak up and let the truth be known…
Heather
May 31st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
You look really really good! I love the haircut, which is probably not new, but since you never post pictures, how would I know. What is it you are holding out to the camera?
Kate
May 31st, 2007 at 5:38 pm
SOMEONE who I’m not entirely willing to admit is me is holding “Crane by Fred.” He was also the photographer for that particular picture.
BTW, where are you, exactly? I’m staying longer and I’d love to see you but have no sense of where you are located and am too lazy to look at a map…
Heather
June 4th, 2007 at 9:50 am
We’re just outside of Philadelphia. Only about 1.5 hours from Baltimore, so you should definitely make your way up here! Have you ever been to the birthplace of liberty? That would be Philadelphia. Or maybe it’s the cradle of liberty. Either way, definitely worth a trip.
Kate
June 5th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Ah yes – I had some vague memory that it was somewhere like that (or Detroit).
Yes, I’ve been to the birthplace of liberty. It was twenty years ago, however. I shouldn’t admit this part, but I was a junior in high school and we were on an “Eastern” choir tour during which we covered about every major landmark in New York, D.C. and Philadelphia in five minutes (okay – TEN). Wait – we even had time to accost an Amish man who had the misfortune of plowing his field next to the highway as two busloads of high school students drove past. The director had – hmmmm- no social graces whatsoever? Therefore we assaulted the man with singing. He listened very graciously, though you could tell that he and his horse were very anxious to get back to work.
Oh – and I had sushi for the first time in Philadelphia. We had a Japanese foreign exchange student with us, and we made her read everything in the restaurant and translate it for us (even the chairs).
Is there some sort of likely public transportation out there? Even though it
Heather
June 6th, 2007 at 10:59 am
You should email me – I can’t figure out how to subscribe to your blog’s feed.
Anyway, you can take the Amtrak pretty easily, and I know there’s some cheap-o bus because Ammon’s dad takes it from the DC area all the time. In fact, if you come the weekend of father’s day, you can just ride up with him! Hahaha! You would know how to deal with him seeing as he has much in common with your father.
Warning: we RARELY home-cook anything, unless the microwave counts as cooking.