So it may have been a little while since my last update...

I entered the wrong account number when I paid our phone bill online and we got disconnected, reconnected, disconnected and reconnected again while the bank faxed and re-faxed proof that, yes, we had paid the blasted bill. In the process, we lost our DSL, then got it reconnected a week later with twice the upload & download speed. Sometime during all that, the phone stopped working and needed repairs. Now we're back.


I only have time to hit the high points, so bear with me if I seem to be talking in headlines:

We caught the Fiddler Company Cold during the show, recovered & now have colds again (I'm sneezing on the screeeeeeee oops n. Excuse me.)

We had three cast parties, which I think is a new record, and ate a lot of Kugel.

Our set-painting had two very happy results:
The theatre gave all four of us season passes for this year to say thank you.
A local elementary school commissioned me (w/J as apprentice) to do a large mural project that will take us most of the rest of the Summer. Hurray!

I'm still studying New Testament Greek; Bryan has now started studying Hebrew.

Last week, Bryan found two adorable, half-starved abandoned puppies on his way home from work. We took them to the vet, fed them & petted them a lot. They are now well-fed, happy, healthy, lively, partially paper-trained and really, really need a home. Want a puppy?

This week, an 18-year-old friend's stepfather kicked him out of the house at night with no place to go, and he's staying here for awhile.

And we're supposed to teach the older group in our small local theatre group's first ever theatre workshop/camp for kids next week. If there is an older group. Which we don't know yet. We could provide three...

Off to bed. My cold meds are finally taking effec