We woke up early this morning, dressed quickly and headed up the hill. to Jen and Tim’s to see the Teen News segment I was supposed to be on. It turns out that the web site info was wrong and it aired yesterday up here so we missed it. It worked out, though because we were able to hang out with Jen and Tim a little.  I noticed a little statue up there holding one of the Sam buttons.

 We ended up planning a short joint vacation to Killington with them for early next week. We really wanted to get away with Gabe.. so this will work out perfectly . After that was squared away. We noticed that there was water seeping in around Tim and Jen’s  sky lights.. looked liked and ice dam. Diane, Jen and I headed up on the roof and started shoveling off the snow. It was a hoot !. There was so much snow up there.. We were up to our waists!/  It was Nate’s birthday so we sang happy birthday to him from the roof

On the way down from Tim and Jen’s Diane and I were talking about how we now measure everything as before Sam’s passing and after Sam’s passing. It’s such a different world to us now. Memories made since Nov 21^st have a much more vivid and surreal quality to them than anything that happened before. Our worldviews are so shifted now.. We both have had thoughts of just selling everything.. and doing something like travel for a year.. We’re not ready to do that yet.. but we may actually think this through and do something like that eventually.. Sam’s death has taught us that there’s no good reason to be  tied down by stuff and responsibility.

 Gabe was up by the time we got home. Max had spent the night in town. Gabe really wanted to get outside and build a snow fort… Somewhere on the way to getting my snowpants on I ended up taking a nap (never leave your camera out where others can find it) .

  After my short snooze. Diane, Gabe and I headed out to build a fort. After scouting out a suitable sight we spent a sunny hour or so digging out some very fine tunnels and a not very fast luge run.. The need for speed eventually caused us to abandon the snow fort and head to the sledding hill. The sledding hill was born  about  12 years ago when a truck accidentally rolled part way down the hill after slipping out of park.   The resulting  100 foot chute is the finest sledding in Jonesville. Here’s Gabe demonstrating his technique..  Nice

Once we were good and frozen, we all headed indoors for tea and cocoa. My mom called to tell me that she’d managed to catch the elusive teen news program down in Boston. It turned out to be about a 3 minute segment with me talking about next generation game processor technology. She said it was good and promised to send me a copy. I think it’s amazing that everyone (camera crews, reporters, us) all  worked so hard for a 3 minute segment.. It gives you a hint at how much work goes into building up a news program.

    The evening is winding down now.. we had a nice dinner.. Diane is putting the final touches on a really  nice letter she is writing to the folks who received Sam’s transplanted organs..  We wanted them to know something about our Sam.. We hope they write back.. but they don’t need to..  Sam.. send these folks some love for us..

-jc