Quiet and nice day. I can’t beleive it’s March already !  Judging by the weather today it’ll be out like a lamb..

We had several of the kids sleeping over last nght.. They were all pretty late sleepers.. Diane and I had soem quiet time this morning. We painted SamStones.. (Diane did most of them ) It’s a great spiritual thing to write Sam’s name again and again and again.. These stones have been such a great thing.

When the guys finally woke up, Diane made a feast of banana blintzes.. They were so excellent.

The guys then got their skiing/boarding gear on and I took them up the mountain. Chai insisted on sitting in Gabe’s lap the whole time.She’s been so funny since we got that puppy.   

On the way up Nirvana’s Lithium was on the radio.. That song is so much associated with Sam in my mind. We had that great acapella version of it as his celebration.

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I came back and took Chai for a long snowshoe in the back. She enjoyed getting out into woods. She’s been pretty mopey the last week with the new addition.. though she seems to be warming up to her.. We took the walk at a  really fast pace. We were both pretty tuckered out when we got back.   I was so relaxed that I decided to do our taxes.. not much fun.. but a great sense of accomplishment !  Lots of memories in there as well.

Around 3 we got the itch to go outside again so we took the dogs out on the Catamount trail fro another snowshoe..

This one was a long gentle climb. the puppy walked a long part of it her self. It’s amazing how much ground she can cover with those short legs. When she got tired we wrapped her in a blanket and stuck her in a backpack.. she fell instantly asleep

We were trying hard to get the puppies name figured out before I leave tomorrow for Singapore.. Thanks to everyone who sent names. We got soem great ones. Right now it’s down to 2.

– Yoshimi  (Yoshi or Shimi for short) after the Flaming Lips song “Yoshimi battles the pink robots”
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– Ninjette –(or ‘jet for short).. Ninjette is defined in the urban dictionary as:

The woman who is the equal and true soulmate for a Ninja.
Her intellect, wit and creativity must match his exactly.
Also, the Ninjette will always support her Ninja without fail through life.
Each Ninja only has one Ninjette and will never find another. Also, no true Ninja will ever be totally happy going through life with any woman other than his Ninjette.

Question from ordinary man 1:

Wow, Ninja John seems sharper and more deadly than ever, what do you think happened?

Answer from somewhat enlightened ordinary man 2:

He found his Ninjette and is now complete.

Both Gabe and Max are ok with Ninjette.. Gabe doesn’t like Yoshimi.. but Max does.. We’re getting close.. OK.. All for now.. gotta run.. Nite all.. Nite Sam
-me