Nice weekend.. I’ve got too much stuff swimming in my head to relax much.. but we did get to see many friends.. so I can’t complain.
Yesterday afternoon we went to friend Patrick’s Eagle scout ceremony thingy.
It was good to see Pat, his family and all those richmond Scout folks.. Max and I had many years fo fun with them so many years ago.. It’s a nice group of folks.. and thay all look good in khaki.
Here’s Owen (aka Eugene).. He had a letter printed in Dear Abbey a few months back !
Brother Abbot… also and eagle scout…
Pat’s sister Elsa looking unboyscoutly
There was a nice short cerimony for Pat. they got his folks up there with him
At one point they had all the eagle scouts in the audience come up and stand behind pat.. I looked out of uniform
As soon as the ceremony was over we had to zoom own to Burlington to meet our out of town friends.. On the way we stopped in to see Max on his last day … actually his last hour… of work.. I think he’s had a good and productive summer…
We met up withour two sets of friends. Larry and Leah from Pittsbugh and Tim and Diane from Connecticut and their two kids Mathew and Katie.. Larry and I went to grad school togeher… he’s now a hot shot profssor at CMU… Leah’s a writer . (first piece published yesterda, congrats Leah !!!) .. and Tim’s an IBM buddy. He’s actually the IBM Corporate Comedian… What’s more we went to rival high schools in Houston (albeit 7 years apart) They’re all really nice follks.. it was cool that they could meet. Hey.. Nicholoas is in the picture too..
We all walked around for a bit… then Tim, Diane and the kids went back to their hotel..
Larry. Leah , Nicholous. Max, Gabe, Ian . Alex, Diane and I went to American Flatbread for dinner…
We also ran into Jesse and Chris H.. they came too. It was quite a crowd. Thought they swarmed out as soon as the Pizza was gone.. leaving us to talk..
Larry whipped out his ultra cool new Iphone and showed us a picture of their daughter at the Muscualr Distrophy camp wh’s a councilor at.. She worked with this cute kid this summer.
Hannah and I go waaaaaaaay back.. we were once picked up by the police driving the wrong way down a one way street.. long story…
We dropped by Dobra Tea on the way home and selected from their 11 billion flavors of tea.. then went home to bed…
This mornign Diane and I had a slow start.. we finally got out for a run around 11.. We went up and did the loop at Hiney Hollow… We took a SamStoen to replace the one we always put near the stream corssing. so far 2 have been picked up there.. I like that.
Diane was cleaver and had brought two good pair of garden clippers.. we spent abut a half hour cutting back soem of the stcker pushes that had grown into the trail… You can now get through there without bleeding !.. It felt good to do some coluntariy trail work like that..
Soeakign about trail work.. soem is badly needed up there.. soemone took a skidder through the wet muck. it was a MESS !
Around 2 Larry and Leah came by the house. Leah and Diane went off for a hike.. Larry and I went out to Homer’s to work on Project x. I could tell that larry liked the place… He enjoyed meeting Homer, too. Homer and I we’re trying to figure out how best to mount the creatures arms to the lift… Larry chipped in with some ideas..
The key problem we have is how to brace the bcreature against wobbling too much or even falling over.. Homer put soem heavy babatries on the lift. raised it to 16 feet then started shaking it.. Ut swayed like a willow. Larry and I were terrified 🙂
Homer had a good idea on using a ladder to stabilize the beast.. It worked.. sort f.. btut we still need to think this out.. We did manage to get one of the creatures pneumatic elbows hooked to the lift and to an electical solenoid.. … in the end we were able to raise the creature and wave an arm.. Sounds like progress to me !
THis is how projects evolve…
We ended up having another nice dinner with Larry and leah.. this time at Joyce’s .. a nice Chineese place near Larry and Leah’s hotel .Another great night…
The only thing that would make it greateer was a full night’s sleep.. and that’s where I’m headed.. Gnite everyone.. Gnite Sam
-me
