Today is my seeeeeeester Mary’s birthday . Happy birthday SPG !!!! ( We call her that because before she could spell she used to write her name SPG……) , Oh, we used to be so mean to her.. I remember wrapping her old toys and given them to her again as Christmas gifts. I was an evil brother.. forgive me Mary.. !
I woke late this morning..still feeling bad about the experiment-gone-wrong last night. I went around apologizing to the neighbors for the scare of the noise. From what I can tell it was still pretty loud a mile away. Tyler P. just walked in and told me that he was over at Texas Hill sitting on the roof of his car. He gave a salute to Sam.. and then he saw the flash from the explosion… He thought it was Sam..
Nice stry.. but still stupid thing for me to do.. I’m getting rid of the chemicals
It was beiutiful and warm this morning. Gabe went outside to do some airbrushing. Iwent outside in sweat pants and a hoodie to go for a run.. I had to go in and put on shorts. It must have been in the 50’s .
After Chai and I went for our run Diane. ‘tori, Chai and I went for a fast walk along the rivershore. It was getting pretty gray by that point… the sky was gray, the woods were gray. .. I came across this tree that I run by all the time and noticed.. for the first time.. it’s great face.
Tori found a few nice patches of snow. She’s loves snow.. it’s been around since she was born.. She’d better get used to not having snow quickly !
The water is really up from the rain and snow melt.. Yesterday it was up in the field across the house. It’s still about 2-3 feet high.. it completely covered Chai’s favorite beach on our path.
The beavers are active again.. we saw a ton of new trees down.. it’s like they’re trying to stop the Winooski !
On the way hone we had to pull the dogs over to allow a pair of logging horses to go through. I remember seeing these big Percharon’s being driven by a cool old guy named Raleigh True. He was quite a character. Still logged with horses. He explained that they’re much better pulling timber through the mud than any machine. Sounded True to me.
When we got home. I ran out to my friend Paul’s on an errand. On the way there I came across a procession in support of a free Tibet… There was quite a crowd. I honked and thumbs up-ed my support
Paul was doing a big favor for me and for Champlain College. They’re having their Student Exxcellence awards tonight. The winner of this year’s InterSteller Award is my firnd Laura N. She’s one of the students in the Champlain team that worked with us..In fact she was over here yesterday evening. The Champlain profs wanted to make her an award . We’d been trying to see if we could ‘print’ Jai. the character from our project on the 3D printer at UVM. Unfortunately, the characters geometry wasn’t correct.. it had holes in it that prevented me form turning it into a proper solid for printing. Last night I had the idea of ‘printing’ the character on a piece of wood using Paul’s computer controlled laser. I sent Paul this image.
He etched it on the wood wit the laser. He called and told me that it came out pretty well. I came over to take a look.. I was really impressed. It was beautiful. We beveled the edges and put some lacquer on it
Instant award.. Not bad !
Luckily, my friend Jeff, R. who’s the Dean of Champlain’s media program lives just around the corner form Paul. I was able to deliver the award to him a full 15 minutes before he had to leave for the awards ceremony. (The lacquer was still drying).
I think Lauren must be receiving it tight now as I type ! Congratulation Lauren !!!!
OK.. We’re heading up to Deb’s for dinner so I’ll end here. More tomorrow. Gnite all.. Nite Sam !
-me