Happy first day of spring (and happy birthday to J.S. Bach and my good friend Rafe).. It was a coolish rainy snowy day.. I woke early to get gabe and dylan up to Stowe..None of us are morning people.. so it was a pretty funny scene.. not much talking.. just grunts from all three of us..

I think they had 5 snowboards between them.. Pipes, slope.. and a spare ? These kids and their gear !
Driving them there and back meant about 120 miles in the car today.. but I didn’t mind.. it was peaceful

I picked them up around 2L30.. and we took the free lunch root home, stopping at cabot cheese for free samples, then lake Champlain chocolates for dessert.

Gabe and I decided to work on getting the trampoine ready to wuse. The main barrier were two badly bent poles in the sfty net.. We decided to try and fiz them.. We lit our home made forge… (it’s SO fun to use !)

THen heated the steel pipes to red heat..

Then beat them back straight. Then quenched them in water to rebuild their strength..

They came out pretty well given the homemade nature of our setup.. Gabe’s really good at thi stuff. it’s funn working with him.

Since the forge was hot. I devded to help Gabe  learn about annealing and quenching.. We took a shot trampoline pring and annealled it soft then pulled it out to about 10 feet in legth.. A great way to celibrate the first day of ‘spring’  🙂

Diane called a little bit ago and is dong great donw there.. it sounds like she’s adaptign to the heat.. She’s got soem great ousemates.. and a nice locaion. Her program starts tonight. I think she’s really going to like it !

ok.. that’s it for tonight.. more tomorrow.

nite folks. nite Sam
-me