If there was a unifying theme for today it was ‘doing nothing’ .. Diane, Gabe  and I are have all been pretty over-programmed last week so we made a concerted effort not to make a concerted effort on anything this weekend We had a quiet evening at home where the big event was throwing sharp things at tree stumps.. Gabe has some special throwing knives, a throwing tomahawk.. and even some freaky batmanesque throwing bats. .. Nothing is more satisfying that throwing an axe at a tree and seeing/hearing it stick. YEAH !

we bilt a small fir and huddled around it as the night came and cooled things off. I think we even had a light  frost last night

This morning we met Jen and Tim and took the dogs u to Gillette pond, one of our favorite walks

such a beautiful place and only a mile form our house

for some reason the entire mountain was covered with butterflies this morning. they were even in our yard..

we came back and worked in the yard for a few hours…   i ran some errands.. including dropping the Tesla coil over at freind Scott’s.. .. I always like visiting him.. he has such cool stuff in his basement !

hen around 4 we walked over to freind Gary’s birthday party.. We stopped to admire the State’s elaborate fish counter for land locked salmon. It looks like it just landed here.

Gary’s party was really nice.. .. Gary was my boss in the mid 1990’s .. his kids Ian and Jess were in for the festivities..

there was food, music, baseball… and just hanging out.. that’s what we chose to do..

then it was time for cake.. here’s all of garys family, brother, mother, sister, wife Janet, Gary. and kids Jess and Ian.

there were two bands there tonight .  both really good. .   some dancing..

Diane and I left around 10 .. We came home and messed around with some of the liquid nitrogen that I had left..

a cool way to end a very nice day..

So not much of a newsy day.. but very satisfying.. more tomorrow from mothers day..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me