Monthly Archives: November 2008

Sunday night – loafing

Ahhhhh.. another very quiet day..I put in a couple of ours of day job work this morning to try and catch up. I’m so swamped there.. It felt good to get a little deeper into my inbox.  Around mid morning I put that  away and joined Diane  working around the house putting stuff back up on the walls after the painting project. I’m delighted to say that nothing much happened at all after that.. we took a short walk on the new johnny brokk trail, i took a run.. Diane baked bread.. and that’s simply all that happened. It was the end of the perfect weekend where I had nothing to do.. and did just that…

It’s a strnge time of year for me.. The anniversary of Sam’s passing is Nov 19th, 20 or 21st depending on how you count. I’m not sure how I’ll feel in the countdown to those days.. I’m not sure how I’m supposed  to feel.   In some ways I feel wierd.. because I don’t feel that wierd.. (I know what I wrote doens’t make sense…. but I hope you get what I mean).. I think Diane would suggest that I don’t think about how I’m thinkign so much.. Now there’s soemthign to think about.  

Anyway.. We’ll see how these weeks pass. I’ve decided to take the last 2 weeks of the month off to regroup and be with family. I knwo thta will be a good thing…

No pictures to post today.. but I have this poem that Gabe just had to write about himself for a class. I really like it.. It’s called ‘I am from…”

by Gabe Cohn

I am from big houses and I pods

Trampolines and snowboards

I am from snow covered

Mountains and forests

Nice relatives and laid back families

I am from big booms

Mad science laughs

And corny jokes

I am from empty red bull cans

And endless amounts of candy

I am from mountain tops and rivers

Hand rails and kickers super pipes and backcountry

I am from…


He’s such a cool kid…

OK.. the three of us are goign to watch a movie now.. Hope you all have a peacefull night..
Night all.. night Sam
-me

Saturday night – oud time

Very peaceful day … it’s been warm and overcast all day.. looking like rain.. only really started raining this evening. Diane and I managed to get out for a longish hike around 9:30 this morning. We went from Bolton Notch road back through the Long Trail to home.. about 2.5 hours at a very fast pace.   It’s one of our favorite hikes.. .. Today it looked completely different.. the trail was covered with leaves… We saw things we didn’t see during our hikes in the summer or on snowshoes in the winter.   Here’s a cool bridge over a stream made by the roots of this tree.. (notice the SamStone on the root) .

We saw fresh beaver activity everywhere.

We stopped for a short rest and snack on the cliffs…

Wetook a hort stop at Duck Brook shelter, too

We dropped off a couple of samstones….

Found our last log entry from Aug 16th…

Then wrote another for the day

We found a couple of puff balls … those are always fun !

We got home and wored around the house for a bit.. then went up and picked up our car on Bolton Notch. I thien went into twon to pick up gabe. On thewy I dropped by firend John’s to pick up two robotic arms he’s donating to me.. They are extrememly cool !

Diane was ona  root vegetable kick today.. she put away a ton of beets and carrots.. Every year we find a ‘boy’ carrot like this one .

Around 3 Diane made us all tea and scones.. it was so nice !

I then spent an hour or so putting up pictures in the house..  Here’s a collage of the boys that Max made for diane once… (I love that picture !)

And here’s the ownderful painting that Coco did of Sam as Wonderboy.

Gabe wanted a print of that same picture in his room .

Around 6:30Dinae and I went to Underhill to my freind Peter’s 50th birthday party.

Here’s peter and our freind Liz.

 The entertainment was by Peter’s band. Peter plays the Oud.. an armenian instrument.. the band also had tow drums, a keyboard a string bass and a clarinet… they were playing turkish/armenian folk music.  Peter’s wife Dana is Armenian.  it was so awesome !!!!!!!!!!

Check out this music !!!!!

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Man.. I’m tired.. time for bed.. More in the morning ! Nite folks.. Night Sam !
-me

Friday night – recession

Peaceful Friday night at home..  nothing on my mind.. pure bliss! . I’ve had quite a few people write me this week wondering if I was OK.. I guess I’ve been sounding pretty low here I have been low.. but not  deep dark low.. Like not a depression.. let’s just call it a recession..   I do appreciate hearing from folks.. even in morse code! The fact that people are out there and are thinking us this time of year is wonderfully sustaining to us. I’m doing pretty well all things considered.  I’ve promised myself to spend sometime this month  trying to get back in touch with what I want to do with my life and where I am going to spend my time and energy. I’m actually looking forward to doing that.

I have a few pictures from the last few days that I hadn’t put up here.. yesterday I was lucky enough to catch a lectutre at work from Art Cohn, the directoro of the Champlain Maritime Museum. Art is a lawyer, diver, socialogist and historian.. and a heck of a good speaker. I’d never met him.. but because of our last names being the same.. I’m always getting folks who think were related. He’s an awesome guy.. He showed some amazing things in his talk.. ncluding soem of the more than 7 ships he’s found in the cold waters of Lake Champlain.

Last night I had a nice night hanging out with Gabe while dianbe went over and visited Elizabeth. i went to pick here up an see Elizabeth’s new place.. Elizabeth has a theme word.. andit’s ‘Simplify’. it’s on her license plate.. and on signs throughout her house.. it’s a goodword.. but I’m not sure what it means.. 🙂 /

Got home tonight pretty pooped from work. Ihad exactly 15 minutes free today at work…   Home never looked so good. I walked in and noticed this cool light up thig that my mother in law Marcia had sent (Thanks Marcia !)..   It’s kind of a smaller version of the big light up branch that we always had in that corner.

I was just lisetenign to the radio tonight.. and hearing more abotu the bad economy.. I’ve really been pretty insulated from the news with no TV.  I’ve only expereinced it through work.. and through our budget.  I guess it’s pretty bad !   I was tickeld by the followign comic that I found in new freind Douglas’s blog.. Made me think of the cool new recesion:

OK.. time for family.. more tomorrow. Nite all. Nite Sam !
-me

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-me