An S&H Weekend in the Mountains
I hope everyone is having a good President's Day holiday. It is cold here today, and there is a threat of snow. But even the chill in the air can't erode the sense of joy & well-being I have from spending an *amazing* weekend with fellow S&H fan, Hunter King, at her home in the mountains.
First, I certainly haven't lost my touch at all - and remain capable of talking about the guys for hours and hours at a time! :-) Of course, with both of us being over-the-top Hutchies, we managed to gobble up huge blocks of time just talking about them/him. We also did an in-depth character study of Hutch to help guide writing, and got started on a similar one about Starsky. We talked about the stories we are writing (and folks, Hunter has some humdingers on the writing table - I am sworn to secrecy, but am salivating at the thought of reading the final offerings), we had a nice 3-way chat with our good buddy, CP (more shameless guy gushing ensued), and Hunter turned me on to a great set of guides for new writers. Nicole popped in on the phone to say "hi" before heading out to enjoy a day in the sun. Yay! It was wonderful, beyond wonderful, the time seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.
Bolstered by large doses of therapy from both CP and Hunter, I watched David Soul's movie, "Rage" - something I'd avoided like the plague for a host of reasons. I thought his performance was brilliant and the movie was well done. We recentered ourselves by watching a few episodes of David Soul in his earlier incarnation as "Joshua Bolt" in "Here Come the Brides" and rounded off our viewing with the S&H episode, "H4MO" - viewed with lively commentary from the audience. Then we diagramed Hutch's Venice Place apartment - something I'd been wanting to do for ages.
Hunter is incredibly generous. She loaned and gave me some S&H goodies.
I have my own die-cast Torino! I didn't even know I wanted one, until she gifted it to me...and I said, "I think I've always wanted a Torino of my very own!"
Hunter has a huge zine collection! She let me paw through the whole pile and borrow a few. To top it off, she gave me a zebra striped mini-purse - perfect for upcoming Cabrillo Con! She also gave me some S&H M&Ms - currently safe in my freezer to save for the Con.
Did I mention that Hunter is a gourmet cook? Well, she is! The menus made my mouth water...man-oh-man. We had the Paul Muni special (and I'm a vegetarian, but I fell off the wagon that night) for Friday supper, along with her homemade mashed spuds, a huge salad w/ homemade dressing (she asked my favorite & made it for me), her special pull-apart bread, and other veggies. Breakfast the next morning was stuffed french toast, a blueberry coffee cake, the most delicious toast from her homemade herb-onion bread, delicious scrambled eggs and the best coffee I ever drank. She asked in advance about my husband's favorite cookie varieties, and sent me home with dozens of cookies in a bin - all his favorites - oatmeal, peanut butter, and apriot jam thumbs. He was in cookie heaven last night. She also made fudge w/ pecans for me to carry home, and 2 loaves of that heavenly bread. Hunter never cooks if she's in a bad mood...she only cooks when she's happy and centered, and all of that love goes right into the food. You can taste it, I promise!
Her husband is a chiropractor and empathic healer. He is ... well, he is a miracle worker. He took me into his studio and "adjusted" me...in the process, he cleared away old dance injuries, realigned my spine, fixed a place where a bone had pulled away in my right leg (another old dance injury), reset my hips (don't ask about dancers and hip rotation injuries :-( ), and fixed the chronic pulling in my neck. My body feels about 10 years younger! I am going to spend the rest of this week just doing yoga and stretching, but after that, feel confident enough to go back to ballet...something I thought I had to give up forever. Wow!
Thank you, Hunter and Joe, for a magical weekend of friendship, fellowship, S&H, healing, food, and love. You are so close and dear in my heart, and I never would have found you without our boys. Finding a new friend is such grace.
And...in honor of the beautiful new poem by youtooblondie, here are my two beastlings, Luckenfire and Phoenix Bean, doing their interpretation of her work:
Off for a whirl around my flist then off to cleaning (wah)...writes-
-Angel
First, I certainly haven't lost my touch at all - and remain capable of talking about the guys for hours and hours at a time! :-) Of course, with both of us being over-the-top Hutchies, we managed to gobble up huge blocks of time just talking about them/him. We also did an in-depth character study of Hutch to help guide writing, and got started on a similar one about Starsky. We talked about the stories we are writing (and folks, Hunter has some humdingers on the writing table - I am sworn to secrecy, but am salivating at the thought of reading the final offerings), we had a nice 3-way chat with our good buddy, CP (more shameless guy gushing ensued), and Hunter turned me on to a great set of guides for new writers. Nicole popped in on the phone to say "hi" before heading out to enjoy a day in the sun. Yay! It was wonderful, beyond wonderful, the time seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.
Bolstered by large doses of therapy from both CP and Hunter, I watched David Soul's movie, "Rage" - something I'd avoided like the plague for a host of reasons. I thought his performance was brilliant and the movie was well done. We recentered ourselves by watching a few episodes of David Soul in his earlier incarnation as "Joshua Bolt" in "Here Come the Brides" and rounded off our viewing with the S&H episode, "H4MO" - viewed with lively commentary from the audience. Then we diagramed Hutch's Venice Place apartment - something I'd been wanting to do for ages.
Hunter is incredibly generous. She loaned and gave me some S&H goodies.
I have my own die-cast Torino! I didn't even know I wanted one, until she gifted it to me...and I said, "I think I've always wanted a Torino of my very own!"
Hunter has a huge zine collection! She let me paw through the whole pile and borrow a few. To top it off, she gave me a zebra striped mini-purse - perfect for upcoming Cabrillo Con! She also gave me some S&H M&Ms - currently safe in my freezer to save for the Con.
Did I mention that Hunter is a gourmet cook? Well, she is! The menus made my mouth water...man-oh-man. We had the Paul Muni special (and I'm a vegetarian, but I fell off the wagon that night) for Friday supper, along with her homemade mashed spuds, a huge salad w/ homemade dressing (she asked my favorite & made it for me), her special pull-apart bread, and other veggies. Breakfast the next morning was stuffed french toast, a blueberry coffee cake, the most delicious toast from her homemade herb-onion bread, delicious scrambled eggs and the best coffee I ever drank. She asked in advance about my husband's favorite cookie varieties, and sent me home with dozens of cookies in a bin - all his favorites - oatmeal, peanut butter, and apriot jam thumbs. He was in cookie heaven last night. She also made fudge w/ pecans for me to carry home, and 2 loaves of that heavenly bread. Hunter never cooks if she's in a bad mood...she only cooks when she's happy and centered, and all of that love goes right into the food. You can taste it, I promise!
Her husband is a chiropractor and empathic healer. He is ... well, he is a miracle worker. He took me into his studio and "adjusted" me...in the process, he cleared away old dance injuries, realigned my spine, fixed a place where a bone had pulled away in my right leg (another old dance injury), reset my hips (don't ask about dancers and hip rotation injuries :-( ), and fixed the chronic pulling in my neck. My body feels about 10 years younger! I am going to spend the rest of this week just doing yoga and stretching, but after that, feel confident enough to go back to ballet...something I thought I had to give up forever. Wow!
Thank you, Hunter and Joe, for a magical weekend of friendship, fellowship, S&H, healing, food, and love. You are so close and dear in my heart, and I never would have found you without our boys. Finding a new friend is such grace.
And...in honor of the beautiful new poem by youtooblondie, here are my two beastlings, Luckenfire and Phoenix Bean, doing their interpretation of her work:
Off for a whirl around my flist then off to cleaning (wah)...writes-
-Angel