M-land and H-field

It was a busy weekend for DHV, with a trip down to Maryland on Saturday to meet two generations of South Carolinians - that's grandparent Lindy, great-grandparent Margaret, and great-aunt Karen basking in his glow near a large fireplace.

On Sunday Grandma V wanted to show off her new furniture, so we headed over to Haddonfield to rendezvous with Yalie Nick - soon to be a professor of Art History at LSU! We're already planning our visit to coincide with LSU-Auburn, but I bet Profesori Camerlenghi will be bunking with us for a reunion before that. NMC is seen here preparing for an undergrad's blank stare after midterms . . .

and an angry question, "But mommy and daddy said I would get extra credit for this gently used picture of a temple in Thailand!?"

Then Yalie/Tarheel/Wildcat Matt Leonard and Illini Stacey Jo Miller rolled in just in time to form a circle of scrutiny around open-air playtime; Matt noted that, "his hair stands up, like just before a lightning strike." If DHV chose this moment to start crawling he wouldn't have gotten far. He chose not to start crawling.

Grandma V made so much food you couldn't see the table anymore - more of a Thanksgiving feast than a cookout. DHV is telling NMC to just be a man and eat some rice already!
DHV is demonstrating that by pulling on just the right hairs you can control a corporate attorney (played here by Penn/NYU Law grad MLL) just like a puppet. "I said wink with the LEFT eye, monkey!"

In between preparing vast amounts of comestibles, Grandma V got her time in overseeing some corduroy fish tenderizing.