Sat night – Mom and dad here

I woke today in the bell tower and didn’t know where I was at first.. It took me a few moments to realize that I was still in my house.. just on a different foor.

I made may way downstairs through Diane and my room where my folks were sleeping and came down stairs. It was pretty peaceful. Eleven folks in the house.. and no one was awake at 9:30 AM.. I love it. People started to wake up around ten..

First order of business was to help Gabe clean the duct tape sticky off his feet.. He’d been trying to make a trampoline board for a day and was working out how to attach the board to his feet (Note to inventers:.. don’t put duct tape on your bare skin. ) I eventually had to resort to getting it off with Acetone… yuck..

My mom and I went into town to pick up some stuff at the bakery as well as a some wire to string up Diane’s raspberry bushes.. I also got some Velcro for Gabe and Jack B. to use as improved footstraps for his tramp board. It worked great !!.. I had fun bouncing with them.

New velcro bindings

Inside testing

We came back and got ready to take a hike. Mom, Dad and I drove with Chai up to the Safford preserve.. we took the steep brambly path up to the cliffs overlooking west white hill. It’s such a beautiful walk.. It was a beautiful day to be up there.

Our friend the garden snake

CHai takes a drink

Me and dad

Dad and mom

Me and mom

Mom and dad

Me and dad

I spent the rest of the afternoon puttering around the house and talking with my folks . They are struggling as we are with Sam’s passing.. It’s nice to have them up here and It’s good that they are up here to see how we’re doing. I love them very much.

Around 8 I went up to MMU for a short meeting about the Voices movie, then met my folks and Gabe at the park and ride on the way to Williston. We all went in to Mexicali to grab a late dinner. Just as we ordered Max showed up which was a nice surprise. We had a really nice dinner outside..

We came home and Gabe did a bit of last minute packing in prep for his trip to camp Abenaki tomorrow.

I’m excited for him.. and I’m going o miss him like crazy.. On of the things I did to help him get ready was to empty out his digital camera.. he had some really great shots on his camera including some from his snowboarding trip to Oregon 2 weeks ago. I’m posting them here for folks to see.