Yearly Archives: 2007

Friday night – snow

Nice day…. Started late last night. I picked max up at the airport about 1:30 this morning. It was SO very good seeing him. It was good having us all under one roof again. We hung out for awhile talking.. then I drifted off to bed… another 2:30 AM night.. yawn…

I woke late this mornign to find the ground covered with snow. It was really beutiful.. I must have slept well because I felt really peaceful. I worked the morning at home. I’m trying to get my head around what I need to do for this new assignment. It’s really fun thinking about all that I have to do… I think it’s going to be fun and challenging.
While I was on a call, a delievry guy knocked on the back door. He was a courrier from DHL shipping. he was holding a box and makign a really wierd face. He haded it to me and told me he was glad that it was out of his truck.. Take a look at these labels.. I’m sure I’m on some sort of list now… actually.. I’m sure I was already on it


This is the one I love….

These are 4 large rocket motors for a big rocket I plan to launch next week in Sam’s honor. This is one like the kind I lunched at his birthday.. the kind you have to call the FAA about… they’re fun and very, very impressive

I quit working about 1 and headed to Montpelier . I’d been invited to be a ‘technology futurist’ (whatever that is) on a panel for the Council on the Future of Vermont. The CVF is a goverment mandated non profit that is considering what life in Vermont will be like in the next 20 years or so. I was on the panel with a guy from Senator Lehey’s office and an evironmentalist. It was a real Hoot. I’ll be interested to see what they do with the info we gave them..

Walking out of the meeting I saw the Music shop here in Montpellior. I used to get guitar stuff here for the boys… The name really grabbed me…

Outside the snow had really started to come down again. it was beautiful..

Since I was already in Montpellier, I took the short drive to East Montpellier to Northstar Fireworks to stock up on supplies for the toast to Sam next week. they were having a buy 1 get 2 free sale.. so I seriously overbaught.. Let’s just say that I did not park anywhere near my house when I got them home… Getting home was quite a chore I89 was covered in black ice in some spots. It was slow going and trecherous

Soon after I got home it was time to go to CHMS to catch Gabe’ s Circus. It’s a tradition that all three boys love. The kids were really great.. Here’s Syndney singing a girlie song.. Se’s got a great voice and great presense

The crowd was mesmerized !

Gabeand freinds where the ‘Coneheads’… cute !


Gabe as also in the 2nd to last act.. ‘the flippers’…they’re flippin sweet ! We ended up borrowign a springboard from our frinds om and Eriksa and Hruskas since the one that the shcool ordered had not yet come in. The guys were really good on the spring board.. Lots of flips and corks.

The kids all took a bow.

One of the acts used the Red Hot Chili Peppers song ‘Snow’… So it was still on my mind we went out to the car.. there was still snow on the ground and on the cars. That song always makes me think of Sam.. we went and saw the Chili’s in Quebec city just a few weeks before he died. I always choke up when I hear it.
The words are perfect

Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (Hye Oh) .

Come to decide that the things that I tried
Were in my life just to get high on
When I sit alone come get a little known
But I need more than myself this time

Step from the road to the sea to the sky
And I do believe it, we rely on
When I lay it on come get to play it on
All my life to sacrifice

Refrain:
Hey oh, listen what I say, oh
I got your hey oh, now listen what I say, oh

When will I know that I really can’t go
To the well once more time to decide on
When it’s killing me, when will I really see
All that I need to look inside

Come to believe that I better not leave
Before I get my chance to ride
When it’s killing me, what do I really need
All that I need to look inside

Refrain:
Hey oh, listen what I say, oh
Come back and hey oh, look at what I say, oh

Stick:
The more I see, the less I know
The more I like to let it go
Hey oh, whoa

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it’s so white as snow
Privately divided by a world so undecided
And there’s nowhere to go

In between the cover of another perfect wonder
And it’s so white as snow
Running through a field where all my tracks will be concealed
And there’s nowhere to go

When to descend to amend for a friend
All the channels that have broken down
Now you bring it up, I’m gonna ring it up
Just to hear you sing it out

Step from the road to the sea to the sky
And I do believe what we rely on
When I lay it on, come get to play it on
All my life to sacrifice

Refrain:
Hey oh, listen what I say, oh
I got your hey oh, listen what I say, oh

Stick:
The more I see, the less I know
The more I like to let it go
Hey oh, whoa

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it’s so white as snow
Privately divided by a world so undecided
And there’s nowhere to go

In between the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it’s so white as snow
Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed
And there’s nowhere to go

I said hey, hey yeah, oh yeah, tell my love now
Hey, hey yeah, oh yeah, tell my love now
Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it’s so white as snow

Privately divided by a world so undecided
And there’s nowhere to go
Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it’s so white as snow

Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed
And there’s nowhere to go
I said hey, oh yeah, oh yeah, tell my love now
Hey, hey yeah, oh yeah

OK.. all for now.. . Love you all.. love you Sam..
-me

Wednesday night – What a long strange trip it’s been !

Friends..
   I need to beg your indulgence and get away with a short blog tonight. I just got home from a (great) Dark Star Orchestra concert and it’s now past 2AM. I need to be up for a 7AM phone call.. UGH..   It was a good day. though.. so I want to tell about it.

I had calls all day from 8AM until 8:30 PM.. I did manage to fit in some fun and relaxation. The first fun thing was an internatioal buffet at Gabe’s school. All the kids brought in their favorite foods from around the world. Diane made Chole from India.. It was quite spicey.. I loved it !

After a few more hours of calls I had a massage/Reiki session with Marci.. I maanged to fall asleep 4 time in the session. Marci told me that was a good thing !.. I love going there.. It really helps me maintain balance…

Later in the afternoon I met up with Diane, Deb, Jen and the Friends of Sam Kids.. They were at Hannafords in Tafts Corners filling bags with full Thanksgiving dinners for needy folks in the community. they were using some of the money that was rasied at the wonderful HWH Chile cook-off on Sunday. hte total tally isn’t in, but the early read said that they made over $3700 thanks to a generaous matching grant from HWH.
   It was really fun watching the kids fill the bags. In all they made 42 full thanksgiving dinners for distribution to kids and familysy from 3 differnt schools. Hannaford very generaously donated the bags, the pie makings, the potatoes and half of the turkey !

Here are the kids at the Hannafords store


Here’s Michelle the store manager. She was so great !


Here’s what went in every bag..   plus one turkey !

Ours did have a special ingredient.. A SamStone !
Hannah had made these greate tags for the bag.. Sam was so much part of this !


Filling the bags was fun.. and hard work

It filled my heart so much to see these kids give so much of their time and energy to finding the needy familys, raising the money filling the bags and distributing them. I have susch admiration for all of them !

I left hHannafors and immediatly had to jump on the phone until 8:30.. at that point it was time to head over to Higher Ground for the Dark Star Orchestra. DSO is the best Greatfule Dead cover band in existance. I always see them wehn they come thrgough. Tonight’s show was amazing.. neary 4 and a half hours.. 16 songs in the first set  alone !..  They played Sugaree, China Cat Sunflower, Eyes of the World, Here comes Sunshine, Railroad Blues, Mexicali Blues, Beat it on Down the road.. Cumberland Blues, Wharf Rat, Me and My Uncle, Another Saturday Night and of course, Trucking,  It was so wonderful !>. Live music is so healing to me..


I ran into Jessie’s friends from Plattsburgh, Eric, nick and Gwen


I went in with my buddy George.. We also ran into friends Pete and Shey…

The band was really good tonight.. It was their third show at higher ground this week.. but it sounded fresh !

Sam was so much in my heart tonight… I Called max and let him listen to soem of the music when the band played ‘China Cat’.. But Max and Sam could play that song


After the show, Andy, the manager put up a Sam Benefit concert poster in Higher ground.   (Remember, Sat November 24th at 7PM in the West Monitor Barn in Richmond)

OK.. That’s all I have wakefulness to write..   Gnite everyone.. gnite Sam. I love you !
-me

Tuesday evening – quiet day

Today was pretty queit and smooth compared to the last several days. One catch is that I forgot to carry my camera.. so no pictures to prove it. We started out by all going in to Gabe’s class for a half our show and tell about our trip to India. I’d pulled out a bunch of our blog pictures and moives to show. Diane took in a bunch of the spices and cloth that we’d baught… and made masala chai for the whole class. it was really fun showing everyone thescenes from half wayaround the world. They seemed to really be into the leech stories and the stuff about food. I relaized when I wnet in that I had not yet stepped foot in Gabe’s classroom this year. That was so unusual for me.   I made a tentative plan with the teacher  to come back in  and blow something up (safely) for the next science unit on matter.  We’re going back into his class tomorrow for their international buffet..we’re trying to choose between indian (chole) and jewish (latkes). We’ll decide tomorrow.
     I went back home and worked hard through the day. I don’t think I got off the cauch at all for 4 hours.. excpet to take a run with Chai. I had calls straight through until 6…  It’s funny though , the calls for my new assignemnt are still fun and new.. I could not have timed this shift in assignement any better for where my head is currently.   At 6 I went out to the barn for men’s yoga. Dian’e sbeen teaching the men’s class every other week this month. It’s a great class.. Check out Diane’s yoga class schedule at schoolhouseyoga.net.
   After yoga, the three of us met friends Bruce, Jim. Delia and Eugene at Tuscanos in Richmond. Bruce, jim and Gene were up from Poughkeepsie for the day. It was a good meal with good freinds.   Now we’re getting ready to go to bed…    A simple and peacful day. That’s a blessing.

Not much else to report.. Our friend Alan found  a great picture of Sam from a Circus presentation they did at Brrewster Pierce school a few years back. This is pure Sam…

I think that’s kevin next to him….     I love pictures of Sam having fun… It’s the way I’ll always think of him/ Gnite all.. Gnite my sons

-me