Monthly Archives: June 2011

Wednesday night – The Ben Ten

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Oy… the house is full of ice cream.. really, really good ice cream !. Both Hannah and Ian are now working at Ben and Jerry’s.. as are Kevin and Nate.. between all of them our freezers are literally overflowing with ice cream. The company gives each employee three pints every day to take home.. I think at this point we have more than 30 pints of the stuff stuffed in every freezable place in the house.. Flavors I’ve never imagined possible.. things with bits of pretzels, chocolate covered potato chips.. flavors named after comedians, politicians, musicians, animals, even after other deserts

And.. what’s harder still is this stuff is irresistible. I don’t even like sweets that miuch and I can’t resist a spoon or so of this stuff every time I walk by a freezer .. and we have three freezers !

 

They say everyone who works at B&J’s gets the ‘Ben Ten’ when they start.. the extra ten pounds from eating their own wares… (all respects to friend Ben who’s looking pretty svelte these days (you reading this ? )  But I gotta say it’s probably worth it.  The kids absolutely love working there . It’s good to see that the culture that Ben and Jerry established there lives on even though the place is now owned by a large corporation.. They say it’s like summer camp !. Everyone enjoys the people, the work.. and of course the perks..

Like chocolate coverd macademia ice cream … strowberry cheeskace, americone dream, pistachio, chubby hubby, cherry garcia… all that I can see from where I now sit..

 

I won’t do it.. no I won’t go over there.. I won’t I won’t … I wo……..

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Tuesday night – i know I don’t know

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School’s been out for a week tomorrow and I think I’ve only seen Gabe about 6 times.. Summer is here and the living is easy.. with a new drivers license.. I remember that wonderful freedom of being able to drive off and find friends.. It’s funny.. I don’t think I ever was very good at keeping track of where my kids were at any point in time. thank goodness Diane was very good at that.. The thing that’s different now is that I know I don’t know where they are.. Actually our kids have all been good at staying in touch.. and letting us know where they are… it’s just different when they’re out in the world on their own.   It’s one of those fundamental letting go things.. you have no choice.. it’s part of the natural order of things.. but it’s also hard..

but I wouldn’t have it any other way

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Monday night – near miss !

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As we all went about our business today the earth barely missed an encounter with Asteroid 2011 MD. The little otherwise unknowable chunk of rock came withing 7500 miles of hitting the earth. I’ve read that it’s diameter as somewhere between 5 (yawn) and 20.. (yikes) meters.    7500 miles ?  That’s just  the distance between Burlington and Bombay !!!!!!!! I was both relieved.. and I admit a little disappointed to learn that even a 20 meter chunk of rock would be reduced to just some big chunks of very dangerous junk by our atmosphere.. Nothing big enough to kill off the dinosaurs.. if they were still with us. Not even big enough to create a crater big enough to call for a national park..

 

Still the prospect of a collision and the collective sigh of relief that we all would have breathed had we known this was coming was quite spectacular.

I love tat the fact nothing happened was newsworthy

I can take much more of that.. ..

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

 

Sunday night – Cora Bow

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Today was as active as yesterday was quiet .. We met up with friends Peter and Dana   and all of our dogs and took a hike up the Nebraska notch trail on the flank of Mt. Mansfield. It was an overcast and cool day.. promising rain and it delivered.. We did about a half of the hike in a steady rain.. we were wet through.. cold and soggy.. but not so soggy that we didn’t enjoy our friends and the beautiful scenery. We took a small side loop called the Clara Bow trail. it went through a steep valley full of ferns.. It looked so primordial that it woulld not have been surprising to see a pterodactyl swooping down on us.

One of the coolest feature of the trail  was a small cave  that you had to walk thought. The trick was the 8 foot ladder at the end to get to the exit.. That involved carrying the three dogs up the ladder.. None of them were excited about that.. hauling three pretty big dogs (chai is about 65 pounds)  op a steep ladder in a narrow chink between rocks was an adventure for us all

 

We all made it…. The conversation was great despite the rain.. maybe even made better by the rain..

We even ran into more friends.. and more dog =s on the trail.. Here are mary and merrill and their dogs.. and Kristie (whom we just met) and her dogs..

By the time I got back to the car, my eye was bugging me.. looks like I either got a bug byte.. or soemthing else.. kinda gross.. but kinda cool too !

 

OK.. that was the day… we’re now having an icecream party with all the ice cream that hannah and Ian bring back from work.. I think we’re going to have an ice cream sundae/sunday every week to get rid of it..  let us know if you want some..

 

OK. that’s it.. I nede to go check out this eye..

 

more tomorrow.

nite all, nite sam

-me

ps. Last night gabe and Ian went meat frenzy.. .. not something that happens often in this household.. It was fun and mildly repulsive watching them get in touch with their inner carnivore