Sunday night – in the moment… or at least in the weekend

Greetings from smack in the center of a three day weekend.. It’s got to be the best time there is.. far enough away from Friday’s day job hassles.. and not quite close enough to Tuesday’s planned frustrations.. i

Somehow the day conspired with me to let that perfect ‘in the moment’ moment last. Lots has happened today.. but the time has passed gently and smoothly..

Starting last night.. I was getting so nostalgic for burning man.. that I tuned into the live webcast.. and watched the man burn

It wasn’t like being there at all.. but.. it was fun to have the vicarious thrill with all the folks I know that were there watching (love you Max and Jac) .. and with the 9000 or so other souls watching on line..

We slept late today.. and went for a run.. there were folks out already to watch the Green Mountain Stage Race. It’s evidently one of the biggest cross country cycling races and it went by our house.

hey had to change the route of the race a couple of days back because some of the planned routes were badly damaged by irene. in fact they were goign to use the road we live on.. Duxbury road.. but ithe are it goes through was so badly damaged that one of the main roads off of it is now closed to the public and will be for weeks. We woke today to find this sign planted just down from our driveway.. “‘No Tourists !! ”

ANyway.. we got to see several of the packs of riders go by.. they were moving so fast and packed so close togheter. it was really cool !

Early this afternoon we wandered back into Richmond to help some neighbors.. A couple of folks were gathered at gary and jeane’s to clean up their yard.. The water was so high that it covered all but the top of the full size soccer goals in their yard !

check out what the storm did to their driveway !

Part of theur yard is still a lake..

the wierd thing is.. it was just a week ago that the flood crested.. and today it was hot. muggy and 86 degrees .. I posted to Facebook that I was ready for winter..

and about 30 minutes later Winter came.. or sort of came.. We were visiting our friend Chris when all of a sudden the heavens burst and everythign was being bombarded by marbel size hail. In moments the ground was nearly covered. with ice . it was just amazing..

here’s a piece of insulation board. the pock marks show how violent the hail storm was..

The hail passed.. then we drifted home and began the big project of the weekend.. well.. actually of the next several weekends. Diane and I are painting the inside of the bell tower. It’s the room I use as my home office.. and it’s been in need of paint for several years..