Very simple day… I woke to find Gabe nursing a black eye: a trophy from last night’s gymnastics class. He managed to land a double front flip.. but also managed to meet his knee coming up as he was coming down. He didn’t seem to shaken up by it.

The only goal I had for the day was to get the interior and exterior storm windows up. I wasn’t looking forward to it at all.. but we called in reinforcements to make it tolerable. Around 10 Brad, Pucket, Pj. And Corey came over to help and made quick work of it.. it’s so much easier with help.

I can’t recall doing muh of anything else during the day. Rand came over and schmoozed for a bit.. I managed to sneak in an accidental nap.. we managed a short run.. then before I knew it , it was night time

Austin was having a Friends of Sam party at his house, so we went up to give his dad David some moral support.. and some help in with his wine and pizza surplus. Gabe and his friends were in the hot tub looking pretty adult-ish… They’re all growing so fast…

Austin‘s chinchilla Chester was running around the house too.. we all took turns rubbing his fur…

Speaking of fur.. check out these mustaches !

So that was all that happened today.. …Now that’s a perfect Saturday !

Ahh… one thing I want to bring up… On Friday. November 30^th. The Friends of Sam are going to hold an art auction. The folks at JDK have kindly offered to host the event which will be used as a fund raiser for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. The kids are looking for art that can art of the auction. They’re especially looking for art from kids… in the spirit of kids helping kids.If you know how to paint, draw, sew, weld, weave, whittle, print, sculpt, forge etc , please consider making something that the kids can auction off. Any piece no matter how big o how small can help Vermont families put food on their tables this holiday season. If you have some thing to donate.. or know someone we should approach, please contact me.. or call Deb at 802-434-6421

OK.. that’s all for now.. Peace out everyone.. peace out Sam..

-me

ps. Here’s a ccool movie that Scott made for us while we were in India.. I really like it..