Greetings from deck 3 of the boat max calls home. Diane and I drive down here early this morning just to see max. We’ve had a good long cole rainy day. We spent most of it huddled around the woodstove .every few minutes a new roommate would walk through and introduce themselves… So it was never dull .
Looks like the wireless is not behaving, so I’m not sure that I’ll be able to Upload any pictures tonight. I guess I’ll just say bye from a very cold and wet corner of the boat.
tomorrow morning now.. here are the pics from yesterday)
what a strange day.. Diane and I went for a run this morning about 9 AM it was 66 degrees .. and it was so hot and humid. I was thinking that I’m just not ready for summer.. Personally, I just can’t don’t care for weather above 60 degrees. When we came home, I was soaked with sweat.. and smelling like a cattle car. About an hour later we left for Gabe’s Lacrosse game.. and the temperature started dropping. By the time we got to Rice High School in South Burlington it had dropped to 46 degrees.
There we were in our shorts and t shirts… The game was great.. but all the spectators were huddled in small clumps trying to keep warm. It was so funny.
Here’s gabe… looking warmer than we were ..
I love living in a place where you can’t control the weather.. (wait.. i think that’s everyplace. )..what I think is , I love being in a situation that I can’t control.. I love the unpredictability of life.. most of the time…
I swear even as I flew over Vermont today, i could smell it.. As I walked out of the airport I could smell it.. as I left work .. there it was again.. but, what was it.,? I smelled it again as I left UVM.. It didn’t hit me until drove into richmond that I was smelling ”spring’. Spring being a euphemism for manure. I smell it everywhere.Folks pour liquid manure on their fields before plowing.. Like everything, it’ s come a little early this year., but its a welcome sign of the coming green. Actually, it’s amazingly green already.. Our flowers are up and many of the trees are showing a little green.
Really fascinating day here in Chicago.. started with an early morning run by the lake..
hen a really interesting all day meeting with folks from the city of Chicago. We had an interesting mix of technologists, urban planners, politicians, policy wonks, community activists, philanthropists, sociologists and computer scientists.. .. and the amazing thing is.. we all could communicate with one another !
Afterwards,, my buddy Stephan and I walked around and checked out some of the great civic art and beautiful architecture here.. This is a really special city.. I want to bring my family here sometime..
here’s a bunch of other pictures I took
OK.. gotta get some sleep..
nite all, nite sam
-me
