{"id":748,"date":"2009-09-08T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/08\/tuesday-night-the-right-woman\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T02:04:47","slug":"tuesday-night-the-right-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/08\/tuesday-night-the-right-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – the right woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally,
\n    I can talk about one of <\/p>\n

the most wonderful surprises I ever got. Any of you watching the Colony<\/p>\n

tonight now know that my wonderful wife Diane showed up at the Colony<\/p>\n

during our 8th week. It was a complete and beautiful surprise to me….<\/p>\n

(and a very hard secret for me to keep for the past 4 months ! ) When I<\/p>\n

left home in Feb I hadn’t expected to see any of my family until I was<\/p>\n

done with the show..   Diane had no idea either, from what I now know,<\/p>\n

Diane was invited to participate  several weeks after  I had already<\/p>\n

started. I wrote her a silly card on her birthday (which she received<\/p>\n

after the show) .. that said something like<\/p>\n

Roses are red,
\nviolets are blue
\nthe Apocalypse is nice
\nbut it would be better with you <\/p>\n
Ironically, that was the same day she got confirmation that she’d be on the show.<\/div>\n

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I <\/p>\n

seriously could not have been more surprised when Diane showed up. I<\/p>\n

remember when Leilani came down and told me “John Cohn, your wife is<\/p>\n

out there”.. my first reaction was …”how do you know my last name”<\/p>\n

..   then it sunk in what she’d said..  when Diane came in I was<\/p>\n

laughing and crying at the same time.. I had missed her SO much.. and<\/p>\n

there she was.. ! My love was with me on this crazy adventure.<\/p>\n

I<\/p>\n

got about 3 minutes into showing her around when the water main broke..<\/p>\n

and our Normal colony crazy existence resumed.. Diane fit in<\/p>\n

immediately.. She became a calming, grounded, rational adviser to many<\/p>\n

folks on the show.. sort of taking the role that George had played as<\/p>\n

the peacemaker. She also is a damn good engineer and immedialy jumped<\/p>\n

into helping with the builds.. I was so proud of her.. and so glad to<\/p>\n

have her by my side..   Diane and I have always worked together well..<\/p>\n

she showed that she could work together with everyone else very well,<\/p>\n

too. She could not have been a more welcome add.. (and did I mention<\/p>\n

that she’d smuggled us in some more coffee ? )<\/p>\n

I want to<\/p>\n

publicly thank all the folks who made it possible for Diane to come and<\/p>\n

join us on the Colony.. Especially Tim and Jen for taking care of Gabe<\/p>\n

and the dogs..<\/p>\n

So.. now you know.. isn’t that a cool story !?!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I <\/p>\n

was pretty excited about Diane’s arrival on the show tonight.. but I<\/p>\n

managed ot have a really productive day anyway.. On the way in early<\/p>\n

this morning I saw Victor, the guy we’d met on the long trail<\/p>\n

yesterday, hitchhiking into Richmond.. I picked him up and dropped him<\/p>\n

in town..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When I got home after a long work day, I found Viktor <\/p>\n

at our house !. He’d come by to say hi and Diane had convinced him to<\/p>\n

stay and join us for ‘Colony Night’ ant Jen and Jim’s .  .. Oh yeah..<\/p>\n

and we have another big surprise, We have another cool surprise <\/p>\n

visitor..  I had some pictures of her yesterday.. but we wanted her visit to be a surprise tonight .. can you guess who it was ?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amy from the Colony is here visiting . We all showed <\/p>\n

up at Jen and Jims..without telling folks we were bringing Amy.. Folks<\/p>\n

loved it.. we had  3 colonists  in the room nowinstead of 1 !<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We had a good turn out tonight.. nearly 30 folks..  They loved having Amy there.. and they loved seeing Diane arrive..<\/div>\n

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It was also fun having Victor, our random MIT <\/p>\n

backpacker guy there.. Amy had taken a picture of him reading about<\/p>\n

himself in my blog from yesterday.. I took a picture of that picture…<\/p>\n

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and a picture of victor looking at that picture<\/div>\n

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… and a picture of victor looking at that <\/i>picture<\/div>\n

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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. <\/div>\n

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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<\/a> (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.. <\/div>\n

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