Sometimes I struggle for a topic to write about .. sometimes i have so much.. I don’t know where to star. Today was one of the latter. .
The big news of the day was the magnitude 5.5 earthquake that rolled throguh the region at 1:44 this afternoon. I was on a conference call when my whole office started shaking. It was SO cool..  I guess it was centered somewhere in Candada.. but it was plenty strong here.

Here’s a Seismometer reading soemone posted fro somewhere in Canada.

Immediately. Facebook and Twitter just exploded .. It was amazing how quickly the discussion on the quake spread.. One freind sent me this very funny and appropriate XKCD comic about that..

It was a great break in an otherwise quiet (but interesting) meeting..

I got home around 6 in time for us to meet  Peggy. Jen and Tim for dinner.. Peggy is moving back to Ohio now that Devon has graduated. Devan will be at the niversity o fMontana.. (with several others from his MMU class).

We’re really goign to miss Peggy.. she’s been a bright, kind presense in our lives these past four years.. she’s wonderful !

We went to the Cider House in Waterbury.. we had fried pickles.. .. which taste just like they sound..

It was a great night..

The real aftershock in our life.. a nice but powerful one.. was in the mail. Jen B , our friend and the Principal of MMU sent us a Diploma for Sam.. We weren’t expecting it.. it was a wonderful and heartbreaking surprise. . Jen sent us a beautiful note.. She and the rest of the staff at MMU have really been great..

Holding this in my hand was somehow harder for  me than the graduation itself.. I was sitting there crying and both dogs came over to make me feel better.

Our lvives are full and challenging..
I welcomdme all the emotions..Nite folks.. nite sam

-me

ps here’s a birdbath that Gabe helped make at chris’s the other day.  He’s gettign to be quite a stone artist !  I liek having this on our sam rock in the garden.