Tuesday night – the right woman

 


 

Finally,
    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

Roses are red,
violets are blue
the Apocalypse is nice
but it would be better with you 

Ironically, that was the same day she got confirmation that she’d be on the show.

 

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..

When I got home after a long work day, I found Viktor 

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 ?

 


 

 

 

Amy from the Colony is here visiting . We all showed 

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 !

We had a good turn out tonight.. nearly 30 folks..  They loved having Amy there.. and they loved seeing Diane arrive..

It was also fun having Victor, our random MIT 

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…

 

and a picture of victor looking at that picture

 

… and a picture of victor looking at that picture

After the show we all came back and looked at folks comments and questions about  the show in the forums, facebook. myspace and twitter. .. I can see that Amy obsesses abotu the show as much as I do.. It was fun to have her here to do that with. 

OK.. That’s about it for today.. somehow it’s already 2 AM and I have a full day tomorrow. Gotta sleep !  . .Oh one more thing.. Please take a sec and check out this outtake clip (here’s a new link April 1 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjuLX-dLFgc&feature=youtu.be) we just found on the Discovery page tonight. It’s about Joey’s birthday. it’s a fun ‘behind the scenes’ piece about a real celebration we had for Joey’s 36th birthday..