Slow day… I woke after some hard trdreams. My dream had soemthign to do abut having to go back to Tampa Florida.. and me not wanting to go because of Sam. It stuck ith me until about mid morning. Diane and I puttered around the house for a few hours waiting for Gabe to wake up. We started to work on a new guitar for the sculpture of Guitar Sam I welded in the front yard. Diane has recently replaced the lights on the sculpture. We were trying t figure out what to use to replace the guitar shaped wreath we’d gotten last year from Puckett’s mom. Conincidentally,as we were thinking about it, Neighbor Amanda dropped off a guitar shaped CD rack of the perfect size and dimension. Diane and I spent an hour rigging up the srings with light up wire.. only to find out that the power supply was bad I’ve just ordered some new drivers for it so it should be up laste this week.
About 10 our friends Kathy and Lau called up to invite us for a dog walk up the long trail.. It was a perfect day forfor a walk in the woods. It was also really good hanging out with Lou and Kathy and dog Sophie..
As we walked, we talked abit about our plans for the anniversary of Sam’s death.. It’s even hard for us to choose which date to recognize.. the 20th, 21st and 22nd all have significance. It’s so for me to think abotu that .. I know ithat the anticipation is oftne much worse than the event itself.. I think the reason that milestones like this are hard to anticipate is that you can project yourself to a specific point in the future then imagine how you’re feel. The fact is that if I chose any arbitrary Tuesday in the future and thought about it enough it would be painful… every day is painful… It’s just that days lie Thanksgiving make it easy to imagine yourself there. We’re still thinking about how best to mark the year.. It all still sems so unreal…
We climbed up to a good viewsot.. and found a nice bench deadicated to a guy who’d died quite young.. These dedication plaques now really mean something to me.. I loved the Dylan quote.. We placed a SamStone near the plaque for safe keeping.
After the viewspot, we decided to headback down. As soon as Chai realized we were on or way back down she grbbed the first tree branch she could and started to run down hill with it. It’s sort of a game with us.
We got to the bottom of the trail and I ran home just under 4 miles.. It felt good to be out runnign on a day like this.. As soon as I got home, I got dressed and took Gabe, Hannah, Avery and Matt down to Homer’s we’re all working on making two copies of the wind-powered snowboarder whilrygigs for sale at the JDK Frineds of Sam event on the 30th. It was greatworking with Homer in his shop/ H REALLY is a mad scinetist.. Hisworkshop is like the one from mythbusters.. it has everything !
Homer’s great with the kids, we spent about 3 hours rebuilding two old whirlygig echanisms. We had to straiten the frames. reinforce them, replaces some bearings and grease them all.
We were all marveling at some of Homer’s other artwork.. Like these wax faces.
It was fun getting our hands dirty on these things.. we were all pretty dirty by the end of the rebuilding processes
Gabe and Matt spent soem time workign Homer’s flying camera…It allows you to slowly and smoothly pan a video camera very close to objects on a table. The effects can be dazzeling . Everyday objects come out looking like flying over the Grand Canyon. it’s a pretty surreal experience
Hannah stole my camera and went out side to mess around. She got soem pretty cool pictures of the kids running around in the field .
In the end, we were able to rebuild 2 new snowbarder mechnaisms. Hannah and Avery have the job of decorating the the new snowboarders bodies.. Theyr’e goign to be cool.. I’m srue that someone will really lke them at the Auction.
Speaking of the Auction.. we really need help collecting cool art to sell in the silent acution… Here’s the annoncement we’re sending around. Please send it to you your friends !
Artwork Needed
“Friends of Sam” is soliciting artwork for a benefit auction to help the Vermont Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. We would appreciate any and all artwork: from kids to adults, from amateurs to professionals. Please consider submitting photos, pen & ink, paintings, sculpture, or whatever fun and funky pieces that you may have. Artwork needs to be in by Sunday 11/25/07. Please contact us with any questions. Email: FriendsofSamCohn@gmail.com or the Townsend family at 434-6421. Thank you!
Event: Friends of Sam Silent Art Auction & Cocktail Party
Hosted by Jager Di Paola Kemp (JDK), Burlington, Vermont
Friday November 30, 2007
Proceeds: to benefit Vermont Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf
“Friends of Sam” is a nonprofit group of kids helping other kids in the spirit and love of Sam Cohn.
OK.. That’s all for now… Gotta sleep now. Gnite all.. Gnite Sam
-me