I am victorious… Our lawn mower was conspiring to take the day off. but we would have none of it. A couple of weeks back the cable that controls the power drive to our mower snapped. I did an emergency cablectmy and fixed it with two plastic tiewraps.. A couple of days ago the kill switch cable mount broke.. ad I countered with a clamp to allow us to pull the cable. This morning the whole assembly that holds the kill switch broke off.. I had to create a multi-part steel contraption to tension the cable in order to get spark to start the mower.

That worked beautifully.. Nicholas offered to use it to cut the grass which was about 4″ high at this point.. Unfortunately on the first pull,. the starter rope snapped.

mama mia !… Nicholas decided to go with it anyway and managed to cut more than half f the lawn without letting the mower stall. All this while Dian. Chai. Satori and I ran up Honey Hollow.

Shortly after we got back, my friend Chris dropped by on his way to cut wood up in Honey Hollow.

He dropped off some new SamStones he’d sandblasted for us !.. He and his family just came back from a cross country oddessy where they dropped SamStones at places like Mt. Rushmore and the Cascade mountains.

I spent some time of the mid afternoon working with Gabe and Trevor on shooting trampoline movies.We put blue tarps around the tramp and filmed s we could chrom key tings out.. Here’s what we came up with .

Late in the afternoon. Tom. Aton and Selean came by

Sleena brought us the most amazing surprise.. This week she’d gone woth her mom down to Boston to see Ama.. the Indian guru AMA… Ama is famous for hugging people… We were only 30 minutes from her ashram in kerala last fall.. Meanwhle we keep hearing what an amazing presense she has.
Anyway… Sleena asked Ama to bless a SamStone for us..here it is !

The kids all decided to go tube the hintington.. The water was way up which made the tubign much easier..

later in the afternoon, Gabe and trevor went up to Ian and Matt’s .while we wne tto Owleshead to a party thrown by Pat and Larry.. It was eally nice.. great food and great company !

We even had some fireworks !

Beleive it or not.. it started raining.. who would have thought hrain in vermont during the summer :-)/ I actually got a little cold.. so Krista wrapped my head in her scarf.. it really helped.. and it made me feel… well.. Sheek (ugh) …

Great party.. great setting…

OK sleep beckons.. More tomorrow. Nite all. Nite Sam
-me