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Sunday night – Turtle ninja.. (long post.. lots of interesting pics folks, turtles, hoops. phish, etc )

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Friends,
I apologize whole heartedly for the lame short posts over the last couple of days.. I’ve been traveling and had too many late nights in a row.. I’ll try to make up for it with a few days of pics and stories..

I began the day in Sherborn at my folks house.. I decided to make a short spontaneous visit last night which worked out well.. (though I managed to fall asleep in my clothes and nearly forgot to blog). It was good seeing my folks..

 

 

 

I got on the road home around noon.. and made good time. I really enjoy driving and daydreaming.. snapped out of it when I saw these guys pass me

The second I got home we plonked the canoe on the car and headed up to gillette pond… I was in the mood to see turtles .. and see them we did !


Check out this stowaway we had on board..

We got home to find two waskally wabbits casing our raspberry plants..

Later this evening Jackie and Summer came over and we did soem surgery on  the LED hoop I’d made jackie a few months back.. I also had her try out my new computerized one.. I thin you will like the results.. Here’s a few pics from that ..

ok.. that was today.. now. working backwards through the weekend… Yesterday our freind Jack came over to show us the new tribute ink he got for Sam.. . it means so much to us when someone chooses to honor Sam like this..

so.. that was saturday… we got home at about 3:30 AM on sturday morning after a really full Friday.. We left home around 8AM friday morning and drove down to Great Escape and spent most of the day htere. We used to go there all the time with the three kids.. we’ve been back once ince sam’s passing.. it felt good to be back there and relive those memories of all the boys there.. It was a hot day.. but not unbearably so.. and for some reason the crowds were not bad at all !.

 

We went and visited soem of the places we hung out when the kids were small.. like the alices wonderland wierd little dead end place

 

and the old jungle walk.. another dead end place.. we were almost the only ones in there .

And the weird old western village

Gabe and raya did mostly coasters.. (i did the comet)..  love coasters, but my brain doesn’t like them …


 


I even got to catch a 30 minute nap under a tree while everyone else went swimming !  I can sleep anywhere !

we dropped a bunch of samstones around the park at places we all liked to go ..

including in Porcelino’s mouth.. he’s the bronze pig at the entrance … supposedly if you rub his nose, you’ll come back to the park.. and in a way, sam did..

around 4:00 we left the park and headed down to Saratogoa for the Phish show..

The place was swarming with wonderfully happy hippies.. we spent a few hours checking out the place, soaking up the vibe, and seeing freinds.. (thanks freinds !) ..


then it was time for the show.. it was AMAZING !.. I am such a phish live show freak now..  I was trying to figure otu a way to see one or both more shows at spac.. but it was not to be..  it was gabe, raya and dianes first show.. and they loved it too !  The guys have *such* great energy !

John F. clownign around doing a neil diamond song..

lightsticks !!!

 

What a GREAT night… what a great day.. the drive home was long.. but worth it..

 

speakign of long.. this is a really long post.. Hope there arent too many pictures here to enjoy.. but.. I gotta say.. what a great weekend.. what a great vacation.

ok.. tomorrow its back to work.. so .. gotta sleep.. more tomorrow..

 

nite all, nite sam !

-me

 

 

Saturday night – oooops

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Dam.n, 1:45 am. I’m at my folks house. Drove down for a short visit. I spent a great evening with them.. Then made the mistake of laying down before blogging. I just woke up.. It’s almost 2 am and is about 70 degrees in here. I'm going to try and go back to sleep, I'd that doesn't work, I,l try blogging some more. nite all, nite Sam
-me

Friday night late – full day

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It’s 2Am … Diane’s driving … A fox just ran across the road.
We’re on our way back from an amazing day . We left home around 8 this morning and Drove to the great escape. . A place we used to take the kids when they were young. It was strange being there without Sam…many good memories there. It was a broiling hot day on a holiday week. I had imagined it would be pa led and sweaty… It was actually not bad at all .. Very short lines and lots of shade.
Around 4 we headed to Saratoga … It was day 1 of a 3 day Phish concert. It was Diane and Gabe’s first… Continue reading Friday night late – full day →

Thursday night – make my day

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Very restful day.. the heat has broken (for a day at least) .. and it’s about 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. Tomorrow is going to be a stinker, I hear. so I’m enjoying the brief respite..

My high point for the day was reading Megan James great article “Meet your Maker” in this weeks 7Days about the wonderfully growing Maker movement here in Vermont.

Here’s the first paragraph:

“Remember when geeks were uncool? John Cohn does. The 52-year-old IBM fellow recalls the disapproving look people shot him when, growing up, he told them he wanted to be an engineer. “I’ve spent my whole adult life trying to get other people interested in geekiness,” he says.

Looks like it worked — the Age of the Geek has arrived.”

I love it.. ! It really is an amazing time to be a geek.. never thought I’d see the day…

In that wonderful spirit I lived the maker lifestyle today by continuing to build stuff on my todo list.. I built a nifty firing circuit for my flamethrower…

 

and a AA battery charger for my iphone so we can taking it on our camping/hiking vacation in a few weeks.. I’m building a solar charger for the batteries.

And.. I worked on my new led hoop project. I turned up soem chanrging problems last night which prevented me from takign it to the fireworks (drat !).. but I think I’ve fixed that.. and I changed the software to be much easier on the bateries. Jackie is coming over in a few minutes to try it out for me.. I’ll add soem movies if it looks cool..

OK.. thats it for now.. more from the road tomorrow..

nite all, nite sam
-me