Friends..
   First.. two requests: . 

1) we still need help tomorrow morning (9AM) unloading the Time Cycle at Peter Markowski’s (462 Monkton Road, Vergennes, VT 05491. 802.877.2645). We have too much work and not enough hands. Please show up if you can…

2) our good friends at Talent Skate Park have been nominated for a $100,000 ShineALight grant from  American Express . These grants are for small businesses that have done good community service. Talent does benefits for all sorts of good causes.. For example, they’ve held three benefits for the Friends of Sam charity to help make an injured snowboarder’s house wheel chair acceptable, they’ve helped reunite Somali families.. and more recently, they’ve helped Friends of Sam raise money to dig 3 wells in rural Cambodia. Talent also runs a summer skate camp which they make available for free to kids in need.  

They are wonderfully generous with their time, their facility and their money.. They are so deserving of this grant. The grants are competitive.. the proposals wiht the highest number of endorsements win the awards. If you have a sec, please look at this link  and read about the good work that Talent has done. If you agree that they are deserving, please add your vote by registering and submitting an endorsement for this nomination. Thanks !!

 OK.. what else happened today… hmmm.. Oh, here’s soemthing cool, while I was working. Julie and Sam R dropped by with a copy of last weeks Times Argus. Gabe’s on the cove ! It’s a picture form last weekend’s Rail Jam at Bolton.

Here’s a better pic of that image.

It was a long hard work day.. so I was glad when it was time to knock off for the day. Diane. Gabe, Amy and I headed down town to do some shopping. Amy immediately wen for the Zombie books. Seems Zombies are everywhere in the post-post apocalypse !

We walker down to the waterfront to get some dinner.. but the Skinny pancake was closed AGAIN ! .   So we wondered down the waterfront until we found another place.. the ‘Breakwater’ .. It was a nice place..  We ran into our old friends Ellen, Kenny and WIll (Diane was present at Will’s birth !)

 It was a a great place to catch up on our lives and let them get to know Amy.. and watch the sky start to darken.

OK.. my eyes are darkening,. can’t stay awake.. so  I’ll say good night.. Night folks, Night Sam !
-me