Great News from Providence

One of the two women in this photo called the Great Plotniks yesterday with fabulous news. Since they picked up the cell while on the noisy elevated BART platform in Smokeland, on their way home from Stiletto City, Plotnik could only hear Ducknik say:

What?
YOU WHAT?
YOU DID?
OHMYGOD!
YOU'RE KIDDING!
COME ON!
AHHHH!
HNNNNNNNN!
REALLY?
OH!
AH!
THAT'S FANTASTIC!

Indeed, it is fantastic. The Great BZWZ has just been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship for her climate change research, which will fund her and her work for the next three years while at the same time being a huge feather in her Plotzer baseball cap, please everyone in the department because now they have to pay less out of their own pocket to have her doing her research at Brown, and of course it should look pretty snappy on her future resume.

It's hard to surprise this family, though. Plotnik knew it all the time. And when he called Mummy P. to give her the news, she said "That's wonderful, Honey. But I knew she'd get it."

Plot and Duck must celebrate immediately. The only decision is which bottle to open.



Meanwhile, PD, 5H and BB are home from President Obama's house. They were knocked out by the graciousness and richness of history inside the residence and the West Wing, to say nothing of all the art. This picture was taken in the Rose Garden.



Seeing Brother Jimmy Street in Stiletto was great too. Brother Street had one of those LA Musician weekends, with one gig in Newport and another in Redondo and he lives in Idlewild. You can't imagine how much driving this entails, and when he was done he drove all the way up to Mummy P's house and spent the night with Plot and Duck and Mummy P. before driving home the next day.

This is the Mother's Day Card that is sitting on the coffee table. Plot had Snapfish do it. They do a great job, and that picture makes everybody smile every time they pass by.