Peacefule and productive day.. much of which we spent outside .. It’s starting to feel like summer. I htik it hit 60 today and everyone was out in shorts. We took advantage of the great weather to resurface Gabe’s skateboard ramp.. We’d built it last year from plans we’d found on the internet.. The suggestion was to surface it with urethane covered massonite.. that lasted about a month.. The plans hadn’t anticipated anything other than Southern Californian weather.   Our rain and snow just ate the stuff up despite it being covered by a tarp .. By this spring the stuff was cracked, bubbled and walling to shreds.  Something had to be done..

.. So I order4ed some sheet of Skatersblend from Renew Resources in Toronto. It’s a weatherproof plastic surface made from 100 % recycled plastic..
  

First order of business was to remove the old surface.. gabe numbered them in case we nedeed them as templates..

To our great fortune, Friend David showed up to help.. we’d ordered him some skatersbled as well.. since the ramp he made for son Austin was having the same weather problems as ours  . The lucky thing is that among many other talents, David  is an accomplished and well armed carpenter. He brought over this amazing deck screw driver that cut our work of moutning the plastic into a tenth of the time

He was even wounded in battle.. we patched him up and got the job done in a bout 4 hours..

Tomorrow we go and help David and Austin resurface their ramp.

This afternoon. Diane and I went to a Feldenkrais workshop for runners.. Turns out there was very little running involved.. but it was fun and interesting. It was out on by our friend Uve M.  I really recommend Uwe Mester for anyone who’s got problems with backs, knees, jaws etc..

The final task for the day was to drop a few of our storm windows.. It’s that time of the year that the house gets hot and stuffy by mid afternoon even though it’s still freezing in the mornign. Diane and I were talking about all the emotions around handling the storms.. when they go up, it means winter is coming.. we’re battening down the hatches for the coming cold.. the house gets close and queit with the extra layers of glass

in the spring the windows come down and we have breezes in the house, new sounds and smell from outside as we anticipate the coming of summer with its lazy days. heat and bugs

As with everything we handle.. there’s are always memory and emotions..

Which reminds me of my find for the week. Gabe brought home a worksheet on the ‘spiral of theodoros’ .. some cool old Greek dudes idea of a spiral where the magnitude of the radii segments are a progression of the square roots of the whole numbers..

Believe it or not.. I’ve never seen this.. though it’s in nature everywhere (think nautilus, ferns, etc )

There’s a spiral on Sam’s ceiling that follows that progression..   It’s like our life.. spiraling out from that one moment.. and now moving out into the world

OK.. gotta go hang out with kids.. more later..
nite all, nite sam
-me