What if spring never came ? That’s what I found myself asking as I looked at the pieces of the half assembled  trampoline in our side yard.

This was Gabe’s big birthday present.. an item on the list since he and Sam were little.. but always rejected… rejected for what reason  ?  safety ? money ? aesthetics ? Anyway the ‘ you only go around once’ message is so deep in us at this point that we ordered the tramp  last week.  Most of it showed up this  morning.. we were so excited.. we knew that Gabe would be psyched.. unfortunately  there were at least two big problems: First.. there were no springs. Evidently the box of springs was misplaced somewhere between here and Gonzales Texas.. They’re looking for the box.. but no sign of it yet. yet. Second.. the thingy’s on the frame don’t quite fit in the dealies on the rest of the frame.. with mismatched dealies and thingy’s there’s no way to assemble the tramp frame. We called the company and they explained that they thought they had had problems with non-spec  thingies . They’re reshipping a box of new thingy’s the estimated arrival time s this Sat.. , . Overall this is not a major setback.. but it was disappointing.. Gabe took it all in stride.. but I  figured that the trampoline would be my blog topic for this evening.. guess I’m out of luck.

    Trampoline problems aside.. it was a pretty quiet day. It started out when we found these aliens sleeping on our lawn in their weird spacecraft. We made peace with them

,.. I quickly got pulled into several early morning phone calls.. then ran off to my  Reiki/Massage session with Marci.. it was great as usual

. I feel this is somehow keeping me more balanced. Don’t ask me how or why it works.. it just does. When I came out of Marci.. I saw Diane’s car parked outside Pat’s yoga studio.. which shares a driveway with Marci’s.. I quickly created a rock and weed valentine for Diane.

. I then walked back to my car to find this stuck under my wiper blade. Great minds think alike. No ?

After Marci I had time for a short lunch stop at the new On the Rise down near the park. I’m so proud of Ben and Rachel for taking this from dream to reality so quickly and completely. The place is absolutely beautiful. It was great seeing Rachel Jane and Judy on my visit.. I really recommend the Tempeh sandwiches with jalapeno sauce.. yum !

   I went from there to a really busy day of phone and face to face meetings. By 6, I was beat.  I got home in time for me to Gabe and drive him up to his end of season Lacrosse party in Jericho..

We got there to find that we’d forgotten the big plate of brownies that Diane had made for us to bring.. good thing.. as there were already 7 plates of uneaten brownies. Gabe begged me to go and buy something else.. . I went and picked up some doughnuts ant the Jericho General store… I’m proud to say that every last one of them was eaten. .. Now .. the Jericho General Store is worth it’s own blog entry  at some  point..  It was a pretty interesting mix between grocery/convenience store and gun store .. only in Vermont.   I did find this poor guy hiding out behind the cold cuts.. Looks like he has a price on his head !

   After the Lacrosse party, Gabe ad I came home. He Max and I decided to try out an idea that Homer had given me today. I’d told homer about how to swing  burning steel wool around your head to make a giant sparkler.. This weekend Homer and friends and improved on that idea by taping a wad of fine steel wool to the bottom of a Frisbee , lighting it and throwing it.. Its very dangerous as it shoots fire everywhere.. but it’s also very. Very cool… remember kids, don’t try this at home without a responsible adults.. (and that generally means Mom !). Here’s a still picture of the path.. and here’s a move.. very cool to see live.

   Hope you saw it sam.. love to all, gnite !

-me