Yearly Archives: 2009

Thursday night – miss-step

I got on the road this morning at about 6 AM and got back to Burlington in time for my noon face to face meeting. The drive back was beautiful and restful.. Got some good work done on the phone. I had a full day of meetings at work then came home to find the septic project complete. I’m glad it’s done.. but the yard is a mess.   The guys did a really nice job with the install and with restoring the yard to some semblance of flat.. but now we have these really freaky hatches and tubes sticking out of our grass. It’ll take some getting used to.

 The back step had to be removed for the work which revealed some bad rot around the sill.. We have to fix that before we replace the back step.. so for now.. it’s a long way up or down from the back yard.

Tonight Gabe had lacrosse practice.. He got a ride while Diane and I went to S. Burlington High School to hear Ralph give a presentation for his public speaking class. There were about 14 kids in the class. Each one did a short piece as a tribute to a, parent, mentor or  friend. They all did such a great job !

Ralph had written his about Sam… so that’s why we were invited !

The teacher had written the secret to success on the podium…

Each kids tribute was so heartfelt. I think the format allowed

several of these kids to say publicly stuff that they couldn’t say

privately to their parents. It was really touching.

Ralphs peice on Sam was the last one. it was such a wonderful message. Ralph talked abotu Sam’s easy freindship, his snowboarding skills, his music… and his bravery . It made me cryt and smile at the same time. I was so glad to be there to hear it .. I could feel Sam close by as he read.

The event was a good lead in to the next couple of days.. Tomorrow morning we have the Sam Cohn guitar giveaway at mount mansfield.. Then Saturday (june 6)  we have the 2nd Jam for Sam at Talent  6-9PM.. Please come help us raise money to help the dig soem water wells for the folks in the Cambodian villiage of Krang Baing !

OK folks.. That’s all for now.. Gnite all.. Gnite Sam !
-me

wednesday night – ny

Greetings from yorktown heights ny. I’m writing from my friends bernie and vics. They’ve kindly let me stay here for the night rather than druve back after a late meeting. I don’t have my wireless setup for their system so I need to be content with blogging on my phone. Its been a very good and interesting day. I forget how important it is to me to meet up with work friends/colleagues face to face from time to time. When I see these folks it reminds me why I love my company. So many kind, interesting and funny people.
Ok.. These tiny keys make me a terse writer. I gotta be up and on the road by 6am so time for bed. More tommorow. Gnite all gnite sam
-me

Tuesday night – not the same old s…-

Greetings from Somers NY> I’m staying at my good friends’ Ruchir and Rashi’s. I’m down here for a set of meeting over the next day and a half. It’s always wonderful to see them.  I got hear abotu 10:30 after a full days work at home.. I had to work at home today because today was the day we began work on our new spectic system. Nothing beats putting a large amount of money into a hole in the ground 🙁 ..
Honestly .. getting this fixed will be a huge relief to us. Diane’s been having to take our clothes to the laundremat for many months.. It will be nice to wash, shower or flush whenever we feel like it now.

I have to admit it’s exciting to watch the new system go in. The system was designed by our freind Justin.. and our buddy Bill A. is doing the excavation work…   Bill is a true artist with this big machine.. I keep thinkign what a cool robot we coul dmake out of that excavator.

First thing we had to do was to number the fieldstones from the part of the walkway that had to be removed.. we nede ot get these stones back in their original  places.

Here’s comes Bill with the shovel full of work

Here he is lifting the sidewalk stones. He is so delicate with that machine that OI think he could scratch his back with it.

He also had to remove the back step.. I gotta do soemthing about that sill rotting..

Here’s the hole for both tanks of the new system

And the dirt that came out of it….

Here’s the new gravel in the bottom

These guys are perfectionists.

Here come the tanks…

While the guys were placeing the tanks, woody was wirign the septic pup and Bruce and I worked on getting the air vent routed to the roof.. easier than it sounds. We ended up having to put the pipe up through one of the interior rooms.. and then up into the attic. Not easy at all.. The hardest part was cleanign a path through the mess in the attic to reach the place the pipe will come through..

OK.. I need to sleep now. We’ll have soem more piuctures from the spetic system over the next couple of days.. I gotta admit, it’s all pretty exciting .. isn’t it Sam ?
-me

Monday midday – Next "Jam for Sam" Sat June 6th, 6-9PM


Jam For Sam at Talent Skatepark

Saturday, June 6, 2009

6—9 pm

$10.00 suggested donation for entry

ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE KRANG BAING VILLAGE PROJECT

Questions? 802-864-2069 or 802-434-4090


Folks,
     Friends of Sam are a group of Sam’s friends who raise money to help kids around the world. The FoS  are going holding their next fund raiser this Saturday in support of the “Krang Baing Village Project”

The “Krang Baing Village Project” is a non-profit organization to help the impoverished village of Krang Baing, Cambodia. Khem Suong was separated from her

village as a young child, escaped to Thailand looking for refuge, and

there her name was selected in a lottery to come to Vermont. Khem, in

her adult life, has since been reunited with her family in Cambodia.

After visiting them and seeing the poverty in which they live in she

has taken on the mission to help her birth village of Krang Baing. Khem

has been on an amazing journey and you can read more details in the Williston Observer. 

Friends of Sam and Talent Skatepark have joined together again for a

“Jam for Sam” event to raise funds for digging wells in Kraing Baing.

Come on by to skate, eat, and listen to music at Talent. Thank you for whatever support you can give. 

I’d liek to add our thanks to Sam T,  Freinds of Sam, Jen K, and the wonderful folks at talent for makign this fundraiser happen . Sam… you have wonderful freinds !
-me