I worked at home  all day today  because Diane was out all day and I needed to puppy-sit   I love workign at home.. I seem to get so much more done I was on the phone working without a break from 8 through about 5. I even took the dogs for a walk in the woods while I was on a work call.. At one point, I lost my footing and slipped down an icy shoot.Luckily I was on mute whch blocked my swearing.

After work I took a  quick stop at Tim F’s to get my back adjusted.. He had this most curious diagram on his wall.

I got home around 6:30… just in time to run to Avery’s house to help celebrate her 16th birthday. Her folks had asked each of her friends to show u and play Avery a song..   I opted to bring my Theremin.. I played a rusty version of Happy Brithday on it.. At least I thought it sounded like Happy Birthday…

Even though it wasn’t my birthday. I got a present. Eric and Pam had commissieoned Ave’s mom Jen to make me a magic hat.. .. It is just so cool It’s covered in lightening bolts and looks just like Dumbledoor’s hat.

I only stayed at Ave’s for a few minutes.. then zoomed back to the house to intercept my buddy Jim. It was great having him come by. Jim lives in POK and has been  my close friend since we started working together in 2003. He Gabe and I went out to dinner. First we tried On the Rise.. but they were packed because there was music there.. Then we tried Bridge Street.. but it had just closed at 8… so we ended up at Zachary’s.. After dinner we came home and started some mischief. The first thing I wanted to show Jim was my new flash powder composition. I just got some new primo atomized aluminum.. I mixed it 30/70 with potassium perchlorate and put it in a paper cup. We lit it and got back… not far enough. It was so much louder and brighter than it had been with my 325 mesh Aluminum. It knocked me back and left us all seeing spots and with ringing ears.. it was quite cool..

Then we did some fire breathing using powdered starch. I rigged up a simple PVC pipe-like thing to allow us to blow the starch out without actually having to put it in our mouths. It was a pig step up from having a mouthful of starch powder

This simple set-up was amazingly effective !!! Here’s Gabe doing it.

And here’s Jim..

Jim liked it.. I think !

Diane got home around 10:30 .. She had some boxes to open.> The first was form Shaun and Billy and family.. It had some really cool stuff in it.. The bag they came in was pretty interesting too.. interesting English/Chinese hybrid language

Shaun had managed to find some very cool postcards of our town.  That took some real work !!!  Here’s a view of Mt. Mansfield form near the Richmond town center.

Here’s one of a famous train wreck from 1919.. This is the covered bride that used ot be next to our house before the 27 flood.

Here’s anaother view of that same wreck I found online

Here’s the Round Church where Diane and I got married !

…. and a very cool picture of Jonesville sometime near the turn of the last century. I marked our house with a red arrow. Note all the buildings near the river that were destroyed in 1927 Notice also how cleared all the hills were. Nearly everything was cleared to raise sheep at that time.

OK.. Time for me to got to sleep.. Busy day planned for tomorrow. G’nite to you all.. G’nite Sam !
-me