We’ve had a very peaceful day here in Endicott. It’s always quiet and relaxing here… Gabe and Marcia (if that’s their real names) are great hosts.

Diane’s brother Joe came by a few times.. His kids Victor and Vincent have been in and out all day. They are such good looking grown up kids. Both of them have jobs this summer. Vicotr works at Roma’s pizza (yum !) .. Vincent works as a golf club catering.. he’s looking at colleges now.. including Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth.. He’s quite an amazing student.

We hung around outside trying to beat the heat.. Here’s Joe..

,. and Marcia

.. and a bunny that hung out much of hte day driving the dogs crazy !

Midday Linda, David and Andrea came over to hang out. Andrea was wearing these very cool blue contacts that made her eyes glow supernaturally..

We all sat down and turned 50 punds of clay into samstones. We all miss Sam so much .. It’s amplified when we visit here.. We all expect Sam to come walkign into the room at any time.. There are signs of him all over here.. And reminders of all the fun he and his brothers had when they visited here Making SamStoens was the perfect thing for us to do…

We took a short break inthe afternoon to walk the dogs down to the Naticoke river.. A favorite hang out for all of our kids.. We walk down there on a usually dry creek bed wich is full of fossils..

We spent a few minutes down at the river to let the dogs romp. It brought so many good memories back to me.. I skipped soem rocks and thought of all the times wwe brought the three boys down here… I had to walk off and be by myself for a bit down there… to be with Sam….

Linda pointed out some forget-me-nots.. down there.. nice ..

David and Diane found rocks with fossils in them.. We went back and made a few SamStoens with fossil rpints in them.. That was pretty cool.

Around 6 we went and got Chineese food for everyone.. Both Gabe and Trevor are also doing vegitarian right now.. so between them and us it was a Tofu fest I got a kick out of this sign in the fronto of the Chinese place.. Note the footnote on the bottom.

It rained otrrentially as we drove to pick up the food.. When we got back to Diane’s street we found it blocked by a firetruck ! We’;d seen another road closing on the way home.. We thought it might have been a tree or power pole down.. but it turned out that they were only filling thier tank…

Well.. that’s about it for the day…Linda, David, Andrea, Diane, Gabe, Trevor, Vincent, Victor and I are about to hit the 9:30 PM showing of Batman.. I’m psyched !
Nite all.. Bye Sam.. we’re missing you..
-jc