At 02:09 PM 4/30/2003 -0500, gumbie tygress wrote:

>> Keys and I remained at home until Elizabeth called with her list of 
>> things she had forgotten.  
>
>what clever parents you are!

It's just that I KNOW this family!  

>> and the main hall is quite reminiscent of an ancient mead hall, 
>> complete with coats of arms along the side walls.  
>
>coolness
>The one in Austin just looks like your typical Grange Hall (wood all
>'round, yes, but "barny" -- nothing to do with purple dinosaurs
>nothankyouverymuch -- character).....

Heh.  Well, it figures, being Texas.  Lots of Germans went there, too, though.

>> One coat of arms is for
>> Baden-Wurttemburg, the German state which was the origin place of 
>> Karl's  immigrant ancestor, Johann Jacob Meyers.  Yes, leave it to me
>>to know the  genealogy of the groom!  (From his sister).  
>
>Ach du lieber!

Ja!

>> And at last we have  some
>> genealogical variety in the family!  
>
>unlike ours, which gots just about EVERYTHING.
>There's even supposed Mongol horde....

Ours is just too boringly English, with a Scot or two and maybe the odd
Irishman, but not much of them.  Now we have German!  That's at least a
little different.

>> At the opposite end of the hall from the entry, it's all glass 
>> facing out onto the Ortega River.  
>
>purty!

Oh, yes, complete with dock.  And there's a rather
German-gingerbread-looking stage or bandshell off to one side.  Oom-pa oom-pa.

>> and finding myself making char siu bao
>
>gesundheit

  Buns with a meaty filling in them.  Quite good, actually.  Just
that the ones I was making were ugly.

>> seeing the helping young man burn up my Saladmaster stainless steel 
>> Dutch
>> oven, which was being used as a boiler for the steamer in which buns 

>> were
>> steaming.  The miracle, the next day, was that Elizabeth was able 
>> to
>> actually clean the pan of the char, and it appears to have survived 
>> without  permanent damage!
>
>huzzah!
>Stainless steel is pretty sturdy stuff.... (having burned a pan or three
>myself).

Yeah, it is.

>> The ceremony was civil rather than religious, Marti and Karl neither 
>> one of
>> them being church-affiliated.  Most of us have come to the 
>> conclusion that,
>> while we believe in some Supreme Being or power, we don't believe 
>> in  organized religion.  
>
>Gimme dis-or-ganized religion
>dis-or-ganized religion
>dis-or-ganized religion
>                the kind that suits my soul.....

Exactly!

>> So here we have a couple of pantheists, for 
>
>I believe in cookware AND God, but didn't realize their connection (gdrlh
>-- OW!)

  That's a good one.  The good God is in the details of the
cookbook.  Heh.

>> main hall, and she came in between us and we both walked her down 
>> the aisle.  
>
>awwww

It was neat.

>> She said she wasn't doing this bit of just the father 
>> walking her
>> down the aisle, because she does have TWO parents.  Heeheehee.
>
>I have two parents, myself, but I'm Daddy's girl.

Marti's good with both of us, actually.  Heehee.

>Besides, Mom's the one everyone keys off of to rise and all that.

Oh, gads, don't depend on me for that, even though I was raised
Episcopalian and am used to the nuances of up and down and up and down (sit
kneel stand kneel sit stand sit kneel . . .)  Win Gartner, officiating, did
a good job of keeping everyone as they were supposed to be.  

>Would have chosen other than the Wedding March, but my organist was
>aging, so had to stick with the program.
>Sunrise/Sunset by a couple friends set the stage, though....

I wasn't going to have that "here comes the bride (big fat and wide)"
nonsense.  Nope.  Bach.  Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, thank you very
miuch, played by my college roommate Carol, who majored in sacred music and
organ, and was a church organist up in the wilds of Georgia.

>> And we had fun afterwards.  At one point, the DJ played the tune 
>> "Sinora"
>> (or however you spell it), the old Harry Belafonte calypso tune that 
>> was  used in another version, I think, in the film
"Beetlejuice."  
>
>Shake, shake, shake senora, in the conga line....

Oh, yeah!

>> Marti  got up
>> and started a Conga line, and I jumped in, too.  It was fun, but 
>> exhausting.
>
>all the preamble sucks it out of you; then the day....

Right.

>> The cake, which Elizabeth also made, was beautiful and also 
>> delicious.  It
>> was on pedestals and columns.  Very fancy.  She did a really 
>> excellent job  with that.
>
>coolness

yumness

>Congrats and congrats....
>
>oh, and
>=HUGS=

Thanks.

Veloci--slowly mending--raptor


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