Sunday night – Minotaur

Peaceful day.. and I needed it.. the coming of Sams birthday tomorrow has e in a sad and quiet place.. I worked around the house most of the day.. midday we headed over to freind Sharon’s house for lunch.. then my work buddy, Currie and his wife and two aunt in laws and their husbands showed up in an wonderful and unexpected visit..

around 7L3 we headed over to Chris and Kim’s for the end of their studio weekend… Chris had done a wonderful Minotaur sculpture that we were donating to the flames.. It was beautiful and stately.. Chris lit the fuse.. and this is what happened

it was so cool watching folks watch the burn.

now it’s time for bed.. tomorrow would be Sam’s 20th birthday..It’s a strange feeling.. certainly bitter sweet.. but I have to say.. more sweet with each passing year..

Happy almost birthday my beautiful son.. you’re in our hearts every minute of every day..
nite all, nite sam
-me

Saturday night – open studio

Peaceful day around the house.We woke to a cool array of moths around our back door.. the benefit of leaving the light on… .. This one looks like a leaf !

 

this one looks even more like a leaf. !!!

 

 

Midday, Gabe and I went over to freind Chris’s to see his open studio..It’s open studio weekend here in Vermont .. and many local artists and craftspeople are opening the doors to their workplaces and letting people like us take a peak. Chris’s place looked amazing.. he had a bunch of his works out.. and even had a few paintings by his freind Mike.. and some of Homer’s amazing metal paintings..

 

Chris is getting ready for his big burn tomorrow night.. this will be his fourth.. Tomorrow it will be a Minotaur that goe up in flame..

 

I’ve got some chemicals to help make it more colorful

 

It should be pretty spectacular. If you can make it, you should go.. I believe the burn is after 9…

 

OK.. all for now.. more tomorrow from Chris’s

nite all nite sam

-me

 

Friday night – well worn path

Hot night in Jonesville.. it;s 75 degrees inside and out.. I don’t much like it over 60 degrees.. so I’m trying not to move much.. Good ,albeit hectic, week.. California, new york and it’s all the same street.. typically cities involved in their typical day dreams.. (wait.. that’s’ the grateful dead)..

I was trying to take today off, but didn’t really do that.. I took calls until about 3 then hung it up.. Gabes last season game of lacrosse was a good place to shake of the week.. hot and muggy but a good breeze. The guys played very well.. winning handily..

The big experiment tonight was making pizza on the grill.. we’re still in the grillymoon.. that wonderful time right after buying a grill that everything looks grillable.. Pizza worked surprisingly well !

Also soem grilled eggplant slices.. see.. carnivores don’t have all the fun !

Around sunset, Diane, Gabe, Raya , the dogs and I took a walk down by the river.. .. it was a sultry and sleepy kind of early evening..

we went on a short hike down the river shore trailt o see the ‘dame rockets’ .. or Flox.. which are weed like Flowers.. or flower like weeds that bloom for a short but beautiful time all across the states. they have are purples, bright pinks, whites and all shades in between ad they smell great.

we headed out just as the sun was setting..  here’s our house from across the street.. you can see the moisture in the air.

 

we got to the flowers just as it got dark.. we walked back in deepening evening.. diane and i realized we coould walk this trail with our eyes closed.. we run it 5-6 times a week. almost year round.. we figured we’ve gone up and down this trail about 3000 times in the past 8 or so years.

now starts the memorial day weekend .. ending on Monday as we mark Sam’s 20th birthday.. the walk up to his birthday is now, too, a familiar path..

i remind myself to just keep walking…

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Thursday night – slowing down

It’s late thursday night.. it’s warm and windy out and I’m winding down for the week. Tomorrow is a work day.. but I’m hoping to take most of it off. Monday we will mark Sam’s 20th birthday. 20 is a big milestone for anyone.. for Sam.. and for us..this seems like it has special significance.. .Though I’m trying to figure out just how I feel about it.. As Diane would say.. i don’t need to think or figure out.. I just need to ‘be’ .. the day will come and pass just like all the other birthdays since Sam’s passing.. .. just like all the other days. Birthdays do reinforce the passing of time.. Birthdays bring lots of folks who check in on us on how were doing.. which is nice. I have to say that we’re all doing pretty well… not just ‘pretty well considering’.. but actually pretty well. we’re living overly busy and mostly very happy lives. Never as happy as when Sam was here with us.. but full lives nonetheless. There was a time where I felt a little bit that being happy somehow was not respectful of Sam’s memory. over the years.. that has completely reversed. I know that Sam would want us to be happy.. and I want to honor that.
These next few days will be tough.. but we’ll see many good friends.. we’ll share good memories of Sam.. we’ll toast him, we’ll make samstones.. we’ll make big fires.. When the weekend is past it will eb time to gear back uo. but for right now.. I just need to slow down…

all for now..

nite all, nite sam
-me