Coming Home

Dear Ishees across America!

I'm sad to have missed the reunion, it sounded like a blast, so you'll just have to post lots of pictures on here! Sadly, I'm packing up and getting ready to leave Berlin, which means I have just a few more days to do lots of things. The three things at the top of my last-week-agenda here are:
1.Going to the abandoned amusement park in East Berlin. It's full of broken ferris wheels and also huge Soviet monuments.
2. Going to the Brauerai in Charlottenberg and doing a beer tasting.
3. Since this city has turned me into a painter, I am going to go to the villa where Max Lieberman (German painter from 19th century) lived and made hundreds of oil paintings. I am gonna go sit and do hundreds of watercolors!
I'll post some pictures when I get home.

Well, the other reason I am posting on here ATTENTION NEW YORK ISHEES, is that I am actually flying into New York and will be there all of next weekend, and hope that maybe if you guys are around and with some time, we could hang out a bit. I still haven't been introduced to the newest members of the family!
So if anybody reads this in the next couple days just let me know and I'll find a way to get to you.

Hope everybody's summer was great!
Love Pascky

Tee Shirts

Hello All-- T hoped to give out his business' Waters Edge Tee shirts to people who wanted them, during the reunion. Unfortunately he forgot. They are adult size large, in different colors, with the company logo. If anyone wants a shirt, email me with your mailing address, and we'll get one to you. He has about 5 or 6 available.

Tamara

pics

hey everyone that took pics-- i have a ton and wanted to put together the good ones on a cd and send that out to everyone-- but i'd love to have all pics for a fuller reunion representation! would you (those that took pics) mind sending me a cd of the good ones and i'll make a composite?! the sooner the better for me (will be leaving around the 20th or before..)-- just use nell and stephen's address: 1357 lewis creek rd, charlotte, vt 05445

thanks!
rae

a highlight

We had an amazing trip, largely due to all of the help that people generously provided. Thanks and hope to see you again soon!
-Terra, Derek and Nola

reunion!!

well, this is just a start..we thought we'd kick it off with a good pic--that avery, always picking on poor lil' bea...haha.

reunion: cooking & cleaning teams

So I had this thought that for the reunion it would be good to try to distribute cooking and cleaning responsibilities more or less equally among the participants. My suggested plan is that we presume that there will be one big shared meal each day that we're there, and that a team of 4-5 people should be responsible for cooking or cleaning each day.

To that end, I divided everyone up into cooking and cleaning teams for the days Sunday through Friday (assuming that both Saturdays will be too hectic to get everyone all together). I tried to account for people leaving early, to the extent that I'm aware of your plans. I also tried to make sure that no one cooks with any person who is also on his or her cleaning team; that the teams include people from different immediate families, people of different generations, and those who do not see each other often; that no one cooks and cleans on the same day; and no team has more than one person under age 16.

We can figure out later what time of day is most practical for a group meal, and people are welcome to trade teams if they've got other activities on a particular day; I assume that once we're all there it will be easy to negotiate such trades. If I've included anyone who isn't coming, or failed to include anyone who is coming, please let me know. People age 2 and under are exempt.

So... drumroll please... here's the chart:

Sunday cooks: Big Rae, Megan, Terra, Cameron
Sunday cleaners: Tom, Nell, Derek, Sonia

Monday cooks: Cary, Reuben, Andy, Isaac, Nell
Monday cleaners: Granny, Megan, Pam, Miguel

Tuesday cooks: Stephen, Derek, Tamara, Heather
Tuesday cleaners: Jane, Reuben, Terra, Carroll

Wednesay cooks: Granny, Stu, Carroll, T
Wednesday cleaners: Tamara, Stephen, Andy, Sadie

Thursday cooks: Pam, Tom, Heather, Olmy
Thursday cleaners: Stu, Little Rae, Big Rae, Isaac

Friday cooks: Sadie, Sonia, Miguel, Jane
Friday cleaners: Cary, Olmy, Little Rae, T, Cameron

Like I said, this is just a starting point and you are all welcome to trade teams at will, sort of like family reunion draft day. I just thought it would be good to go into the week with a bit of a plan in place. If anyone has special dishes they'd like to cook, don't forget to bring your recipes!

Love, Sadie

Pasky's Blog

For anyone who is interested, Pascale's blog of her Berlin adventure is located at: http://pdberlin.blogspot.com/

She is updating every few days.

eating and surfing

Hello from Avery and Bea in Vermont! Here is a picture of us sitting at Nell's table trying out some new food. It's all so new and exciting! We are looking forward to meeting everybody real soon. Oh, and we want to learn to surf like Pascale and Isaac.
Bye bye!

logistics

Anyone have insights about the best way to get to the reunion from here in the Northeast? Specifically, does it make more sense to fly into one of the closer airports (Jacksonville or New Berne) even though there are no direct flights & it means changing planes, plus is a bit more expensive? Is the extra distance to Raleigh-Durham significant? I'm likely to be flying down with Bea but without Stu, so convenience is a big factor. How have other people solved this problem?

PS- I was checking flights from both New York & Boston, because Stu will likely be flying from Boston. Kayak.com had some very good deals, if anyone is looking.

Some local Down East scenery...

To whet people's apetites.

Pascale

Pascale, sadly, will not be joining us at the reunion, as she will be in Germany during July and August working under a research fellowship. Still, she's got the surfing thing going on too:

from Nola's birthday picnic

Some excitement from a birthday party: The birthday girl enjoying a cupcake, and her cousins enjoying each other.

hi all! this is pretty fun- being able to see/connect with everyone! i just got off of my first fishing assignment for this season-- off the coast of Washington and i'll shortly be heading up to Alaska until the reunion--this is a picture of me last summer on the job (i'm the one in orange at the end of the huge bag o' fish)...mmm, fishy... can't wait to see you all!!

Hi from Brooklyn!

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Originally uploaded by tnishee

Willoughby St. to be exact, since that's where everyone in this photo will live in one week. Friday was Nola's second birthday and this shot is from her party.

I'm so excited to see everyone else in the clan soon. Derek has to work in Vermont at the end of the reunion week, so we're still trying to decide if we'll drive down, as we had originally planned, or fly, and how long we'll be able to stay. It won't feel like long enough no matter what!
-Terra

Island Life

Isaac's surfing coach is all ready with boards, to do surfing lessons for all on a beach day during the reunion--that means you too Granny!

I still don't get this so y'all may get besieged with pictures as I try to figure out what I'm doing. I like the team meals idea--maybe we should have a midday gathering some days-- the better for sunsets on the island..

Thanks to Sadie!

Just wanted to post that I'm finally able to access the blog, and am very grateful (and amazed) that Sadie was able to put it together. Tom and I will be on the Island for the whole week. and are enthusiastic about helping out on a team to get a meal together. We don't have a camera, but sure appreciate photos from those of you who do!

We'll be watching!
J.

I don't get how this works. I'm trying to upload 4 pics from San Diego to figure it out but it's slow going...

Just thought I'd try uploading a photo. This is a picture of our Harkers Island house (center with two dormers and large wooded lot in the back) from a flyover we did last year.

email addresses

Hey Sadie,
This sounds like a great idea. Mom's email address is jishee@cableone.net and I don't have an individual one for Tom but you can send to jato@cableone.net as they both use that one. Today is Mom's birthday - Happy Birthday Jane!
We have not yet bought our tickets but are planning on going for the whole week. I like the idea of task sharing for big meals together. You can sign Matthew and I up for any day(s).
Time for a diaper change!
-Cary

hello

Hi everyone-

I thought that this would be a way for us all to keep in touch around organizing family reunion logistics- and also just in general. If you are reading this, I assume that you got the invite and found the site. I have never blogged before & am not sure I set everything up correctly, but if it works as it is supposed to, you should all be able to post comments & pictures & anything else here on this site.

I did not have email addresses for all the extended Ishee clan, and some of those I did have may be out of date. Please, if anyone has email addresses for Jane, Tom, Olmy, Cameron, Carroll, Isaac, Pascale, Heather or Megan-- or more current addresses for anyone else-- pass along so that they can be included.

So, welcome!
And as long as you're here, I have some logistical questions for the group:
First: What dates will everyone be attending the reunion?
Second: I had an idea that maybe we could plan on one big meal per day that everyone would try to be at, with different teams of cooks each day-- strategically planned to give people a chance to hang out with family members they don't see as much . Would everyone be up for that?

That's all for now. I'm tired tonight, but I encourage you all to post photos and/or more entertaining anecdotes that will make us all want to keep coming back.

Lots of love-
Sadie