Another beautiful day. It was nice having my folks up here with us… especially because today is my Mom (and my Brother’s ) birthday.. Gabe was having fun with spray paint this morning and did a cool decorating job on his skateboard helmet.

I spent the morning wrestling with a bad computer virus on our upstairs computer. (I think I won.. but I won’t be sure  for a few days) Around midday my folks, Diane, Chai and I drove up to Honey Hollow for a hike. The same one as yesterday, but this time in reverse. It was nice being outside with my folks.  We had a nice picnic up there overlooking Preston brook. 

We got back mid afternoon and kinda laid low until folks started showing up for the pot luck. We had a good crowd tonight. The food theme was ‘end of summer harvest’ so we had lots of, good veggie dishes.

There were lots of kids on the tramp and playing guitar. It was very nice seeing everyone even though I’d been feeling pretty low and not all that social. I think my parents enjoyed seeing/meeting  everyone too. After dinner we had a birthday cake for my Mom….

 

After cake we all started making SamStones. With all the hands we were able to go through another 2 bags of clay which is several hundred stones.   We’ve given out more than 2000 at this point.

I’m starting to get more reports of people finding them.. nearly one a day. Today someone found one in Netherlands.. probably from my friend Leon. Maybe this week I’ll share  some of the stories of found SamStones.

 Right now.. I’m off to sleep. Happy birthday Mom and Billy.. I love you both.. gnite everyone. Gnite Sam

 

-me