I can talk about one of
the most wonderful surprises I ever got. Any of you watching the Colony
tonight now know that my wonderful wife Diane showed up at the Colony
during our 8th week. It was a complete and beautiful surprise to me….
(and a very hard secret for me to keep for the past 4 months ! ) When I
left home in Feb I hadn’t expected to see any of my family until I was
done with the show.. Diane had no idea either, from what I now know,
Diane was invited to participate several weeks after I had already
started. I wrote her a silly card on her birthday (which she received
after the show) .. that said something like
violets are blue
the Apocalypse is nice
but it would be better with you
seriously could not have been more surprised when Diane showed up. I
remember when Leilani came down and told me “John Cohn, your wife is
out there”.. my first reaction was …”how do you know my last name”
.. then it sunk in what she’d said.. when Diane came in I was
laughing and crying at the same time.. I had missed her SO much.. and
there she was.. ! My love was with me on this crazy adventure.
I
got about 3 minutes into showing her around when the water main broke..
and our Normal colony crazy existence resumed.. Diane fit in
immediately.. She became a calming, grounded, rational adviser to many
folks on the show.. sort of taking the role that George had played as
the peacemaker. She also is a damn good engineer and immedialy jumped
into helping with the builds.. I was so proud of her.. and so glad to
have her by my side.. Diane and I have always worked together well..
she showed that she could work together with everyone else very well,
too. She could not have been a more welcome add.. (and did I mention
that she’d smuggled us in some more coffee ? )
I want to
publicly thank all the folks who made it possible for Diane to come and
join us on the Colony.. Especially Tim and Jen for taking care of Gabe
and the dogs..
So.. now you know.. isn’t that a cool story !?!
was pretty excited about Diane’s arrival on the show tonight.. but I
managed ot have a really productive day anyway.. On the way in early
this morning I saw Victor, the guy we’d met on the long trail
yesterday, hitchhiking into Richmond.. I picked him up and dropped him
in town..
at our house !. He’d come by to say hi and Diane had convinced him to
stay and join us for ‘Colony Night’ ant Jen and Jim’s . .. Oh yeah..
and we have another big surprise, We have another cool surprise
visitor.. I had some pictures of her yesterday.. but we wanted her visit to be a surprise tonight .. can you guess who it was ?
up at Jen and Jims..without telling folks we were bringing Amy.. Folks
loved it.. we had 3 colonists in the room nowinstead of 1 !
backpacker guy there.. Amy had taken a picture of him reading about
himself in my blog from yesterday.. I took a picture of that picture…
