October 14, 2007
David Eastmond's Survey
WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE smarter and more handsome than I am now. MY FAVORITE COLOR IS blue, AND I LOVE TO EAT French yogurts (not Yoplait) and breads. PET PEEVE = inaccuracy [Added by ESE]. IF I NEED TO ESCAPE, MY BRAIN GOES TO thriller novels but MY BODY never FOLLOWS. FAMILY LIFE IS normal life. BIGGEST TIME WASTER the Internet. BIGGEST FEAR IS premature disability such as Alzheimer’s or severe Parkinson's. BIGGEST MOTIVATION IS a rapidly approaching deadline. DESIGN. I don't have a COOLEST PROJECT. COMMAND Z MOMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE not agreeing to learn to play the bass guitar so that I could play in my brother's Red Feather band. I WISH I had learned how to play the guitar. STUCK ON A DESERT ISLAND? IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH Elizabeth LISTENING TO my iPod AND MISSING sunscreen. REALLY.
October 12, 2007
Kim Anselmo--Responses to Elizabeth's Survey
WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE an actress. MY FAVORITE COLOR
October 7, 2007
Dave Eastmond Family News
Elizabeth Eastmond--from the family reunion survey:
WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE wise. MY FAVORITE COLOR IS bluey-green, AND I LOVE TO EAT grilled vegetables or chocolate or panna cotta with berry sauce. PET PEEVE = people who cut in line. IF I NEED TO ESCAPE, MY BRAIN GOES TO sleep AND SOMETIMES MY BODY FOLLOWS. FAMILY LIFE IS a challenge as well as a reward. BIGGEST TIME WASTER is the Internet. BIGGEST FEAR IS losing Dave. BIGGEST MOTIVATION IS a deadline. Graphic DESIGN is something I would have done, had I more years and more time. COOLEST PROJECT is my MFA. COMMAND Z MOMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE anytime I yelled at the children unnecessarily. I WISH I could run five miles. STUCK ON A DESERT ISLAND? IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH my family LISTENING TO my iPod AND MISSING a cool fall breeze. . . or chocolate. REALLY.
Our News:
The ETOX department's fall party came off without a hitch--should do, since we've had some practice (our third year running, I think). We had a nice crowd, but the unseasonably cool weather that evening cut the night short, as people in shirtsleeves left to get warmed up. None of the candles would stay lit, either.
Dave and Carla, a grad student. She wore a coat and stuck around until the very end.
Art shot of our Japanese lanterns. I know the first rain's going to take them out.
I hosted a meeting of the ward's "Cooking Club" and the theme was pears. And I also hosted a baby shower for my camp director, Lillian, and the terrific part was getting to eat some Lora Adcock cake. It was a boy. I think that's enough hostessing for a while: three gigs in one month (I can't possibly keep up with Barbara, nor should I try.)
So what else do these boring parents do? Try to talk to their children and grandchildren and in-laws, think those same people are cute and brilliant and exceedingly wonderful (play match-the-adjective-with-the-noun). More Travel: Dave just returned from a quick trip to talk to the International Coatings Exposition (in Toronto), and that has nothing to do with cold weather, but everything to do with what you paint your walls with.
Toronto, from the glass elevator on the side of his hotel.
Looking upwards through an arbor in the Music Garden in downtown Toronto. The garden's design had an assist from Yo-Yo Ma.
Cool cut-out in a metal wall: it shows the flowerbed behind it.
He'll head off at the end of this month to Atlanta (EMS), Washington DC (as he is the UC-DC Coordinator for UCR for one year while the other guy's on sabbatical). I head to Utah to visit Mom and Dad, and check out whoever/whatever else. In between that, we both teach and grade papers and trade stories about our students.
We've had two days of cool, fall-ish weather and I put out the dishtowels for autumn tones, got out the plaid quilt to put on the bed, and traded the brilliant tones of summer for the burnished colors of fall. Now that I've done that, we'll probably get his some some Santa Anas and be wearing sandals and eating out on the patio again.
I mentioned panna cotta in my survey paragraph. Here's a photo of and a recipe for this creamy dessert that we had in Pienza, Italy this past summer. The berry sauce comes from a frozen bag of mixed berries, cooked up with some sugar on the stove (In spite of how the picture looks, I'd run it through a sieve, if I were you, and juice it with a squirt of lemon juice and maybe some vanilla.)
Panna Cotta (very very easy to make)
Panna cotta, a molded chilled dessert popular throughout Italy, is easy to make and can be prepared in advance. It looks and tastes wonderful with ripe red fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, or sweet cherries.
Servings: Serves 8.
ingredients
1 envelope unflavored gelatin (about 1 tablespoon)
2 tablespoons cold water
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup half and half
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
preparation
In a very small saucepan sprinkle gelatin over water and let stand about 1 minute to soften. Heat gelatin mixture over low heat until gelatin is dissolved and remove pan from heat.
In a large saucepan bring cream, half and half, and sugar just to a boil over moderately high heat, stirring. Remove pan from heat and stir in gelatin mixture and vanilla. Divide cream mixture among eight 1/2-cup ramekins and cool to room temperature. Chill ramekins, covered, at least 4 hours or overnight.
Dip ramekins, 1 at a time, into a bowl of hot water 3 seconds. Run a thin knife around edge of each ramekin and invert ramekin onto center of a small plate.
Serves 8.
Happy Eating on Your Dessert Isle--oops, Desert Isle.
WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE wise. MY FAVORITE COLOR IS bluey-green, AND I LOVE TO EAT grilled vegetables or chocolate or panna cotta with berry sauce. PET PEEVE = people who cut in line. IF I NEED TO ESCAPE, MY BRAIN GOES TO sleep AND SOMETIMES MY BODY FOLLOWS. FAMILY LIFE IS a challenge as well as a reward. BIGGEST TIME WASTER is the Internet. BIGGEST FEAR IS losing Dave. BIGGEST MOTIVATION IS a deadline. Graphic DESIGN is something I would have done, had I more years and more time. COOLEST PROJECT is my MFA. COMMAND Z MOMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE anytime I yelled at the children unnecessarily. I WISH I could run five miles. STUCK ON A DESERT ISLAND? IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH my family LISTENING TO my iPod AND MISSING a cool fall breeze. . . or chocolate. REALLY.
Our News:
The ETOX department's fall party came off without a hitch--should do, since we've had some practice (our third year running, I think). We had a nice crowd, but the unseasonably cool weather that evening cut the night short, as people in shirtsleeves left to get warmed up. None of the candles would stay lit, either.
Dave and Carla, a grad student. She wore a coat and stuck around until the very end.
Art shot of our Japanese lanterns. I know the first rain's going to take them out.
I also took a quick trip to Kingman, where Keagan's pink boots stole the show.
So what else do these boring parents do? Try to talk to their children and grandchildren and in-laws, think those same people are cute and brilliant and exceedingly wonderful (play match-the-adjective-with-the-noun). More Travel: Dave just returned from a quick trip to talk to the International Coatings Exposition (in Toronto), and that has nothing to do with cold weather, but everything to do with what you paint your walls with.
Toronto, from the glass elevator on the side of his hotel.
Looking upwards through an arbor in the Music Garden in downtown Toronto. The garden's design had an assist from Yo-Yo Ma.
Cool cut-out in a metal wall: it shows the flowerbed behind it.He'll head off at the end of this month to Atlanta (EMS), Washington DC (as he is the UC-DC Coordinator for UCR for one year while the other guy's on sabbatical). I head to Utah to visit Mom and Dad, and check out whoever/whatever else. In between that, we both teach and grade papers and trade stories about our students.
We've had two days of cool, fall-ish weather and I put out the dishtowels for autumn tones, got out the plaid quilt to put on the bed, and traded the brilliant tones of summer for the burnished colors of fall. Now that I've done that, we'll probably get his some some Santa Anas and be wearing sandals and eating out on the patio again.
I mentioned panna cotta in my survey paragraph. Here's a photo of and a recipe for this creamy dessert that we had in Pienza, Italy this past summer. The berry sauce comes from a frozen bag of mixed berries, cooked up with some sugar on the stove (In spite of how the picture looks, I'd run it through a sieve, if I were you, and juice it with a squirt of lemon juice and maybe some vanilla.)
Panna Cotta (very very easy to make)Panna cotta, a molded chilled dessert popular throughout Italy, is easy to make and can be prepared in advance. It looks and tastes wonderful with ripe red fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, or sweet cherries.
Servings: Serves 8.
ingredients
1 envelope unflavored gelatin (about 1 tablespoon)
2 tablespoons cold water
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup half and half
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
preparation
In a very small saucepan sprinkle gelatin over water and let stand about 1 minute to soften. Heat gelatin mixture over low heat until gelatin is dissolved and remove pan from heat.
In a large saucepan bring cream, half and half, and sugar just to a boil over moderately high heat, stirring. Remove pan from heat and stir in gelatin mixture and vanilla. Divide cream mixture among eight 1/2-cup ramekins and cool to room temperature. Chill ramekins, covered, at least 4 hours or overnight.
Dip ramekins, 1 at a time, into a bowl of hot water 3 seconds. Run a thin knife around edge of each ramekin and invert ramekin onto center of a small plate.
Serves 8.
Happy Eating on Your Dessert Isle--oops, Desert Isle.
October 2, 2007
Later Mater • Chad Anselmo Family
The main event of this month was our trip Up and Down the Coast with our former roommates, The Stinchfields. We started in San Diego and went to Seattle, and then back down. Most of the following is plagiarized from Brent and Buffy's Blog.Monday, we drove down to S.D. and went to the La Jolla Cove
On Tuesday we went, of course to Disneyland and had fun there.
On Wednsday we left to drive back up to Portland (Where the Stinchfields live). We did not just drive up the I-5, we went the long and beautiful way using the 101 and Highway 1 the whole way.
The first day we made it to the Monteray area with stops at the Hearst Castle and Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey. I have to say that Hearst castle is amazing but lacks the "lived-in" feeling. The pools are beautiful though. It was amazing that they worked on it for 28 years and it was never finished.
On Tuesday we went, of course to Disneyland and had fun there.
On Wednsday we left to drive back up to Portland (Where the Stinchfields live). We did not just drive up the I-5, we went the long and beautiful way using the 101 and Highway 1 the whole way.The stop at Watsonville was an experience the first night. So we made reservations on Expedia for a "Inn" called the Watsonville Inn. Driving up to it we were sketchy right away but we figured we would give it a try. So we checked-in and Brent and I went to the gas station to fill up and as we were out Buffy calls and says, "We have to get out of here. There are bugs in the beds, the floors are filthy and the bed covers have burn marks." So we went back and checked out with some argument with the manager and went to Holiday Inn Express which was great and gave us a suite for the price of a standard because of the situation. It's a story we won't forget, plus all the next days we were experts at everything having "Stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last Night"
Then we proceeded to go through the Redwoods stopped every so often to take pictures.
That day ended in Crescent City, CA with no real incident.The last travel day we drove the Oregon Coast through Newport and Lincoln City and stopped at the Tillamook Cheese Factory before we headed inland to Brent and Buffy's house (or "Bent and Buppies house" as Alex says). The last week we have been shown the great NW from our personal tour guides...The Stinchfields.
We went on the Mt Hood loop and saw Multnomah Falls and Timberline lodge.
We went to Seattle and saw the Space Needle, Ballard Locks, Aquarium and Pikes Place Market.
We were also able to go up to Mt St Helens
and on a boat ride with Brent's Parents down the Willamete into downtown Portland.The whole trip was amazing and we could not have asked for better weather. It was a trip that we will always remember and to be able to do it with such great friends was wonderful.
For a more in depth view of the whole trip head to our Blog.
Until Next Month,
Chad, Kristen, Alexander, and Andrew
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