Monday night – grooming at any hour

Today was soooo busy with work  I literally worked fro 7:30 am until 10PM with only 45 min off for dinner. Funny thing is.. i enjoyed most of it.. good hard thinking day.. I was so busy at work that nothing really happened today.. so I’ll talk more about our hike yesterday now that I can upload my pictures

 

We took the Preston pond hike again with Tim and jen and all four of our dogs.. Quite a gaggle. THis trail has everything including old cellar holes  like this

an old barn foundation

wild COO’s of modern web commerce company’s !

bridges

cliffs and boulders


beaver dams

crazy vagabonds

beautifully remote ponds

random passerby teachers..

crazy trees with cryptic cuniform worm trails

Fall foliage (already >!>!)

beautiful views !

beautiful girls !

married people !

cool signs

with cryptic meanings !

love that last one..

ok.. another long day tomorrow.. so I’m going to bed.

nite all, nite sam !

-me
 

Sunday night – ramping up

You know, im realizing that i spend half of my weekend ramping down from the previous week, then the second half.. Basically all of Sunday.. Ramping back up. Ive just spent nearly 4 hours catching up on email from last week and planning my attack on the week ahead. I always end up going to bed on sunday with work on my mind.. So i even dream about work on sundays…
I think i need to learn to compartmentalize a little better and take my whole weekend as weekend…
Thats not to say that i didn’t have a great weekend.. I did.. What can be better than a great hike with friends, a fresh tomato sandwich, time with family, some easy chores and a nap in the sun…

I even have some pictures to prove i had a great day… Unfortunately they
Are on my phone that seems to have lost its charge…

Who am i to. Talk… I
I’ve lost mine too,

Gnite all, nite sam
-me

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Saturday night – homecoming

Happy Homecoming !.. it’s homecoming weekend.. lots of events planned.. some of which are on hold because of the weather. Diane and I had signed up to help cook today at the field. It was a hoot because there was such a strong wind. We were flipping burgers (until I admitted that I hadn’t eaten a burger since 1976).. The wind was blowing plates, cups and foil all over.. I ended up playing the outfield.. chasing down errant paper pates and such. Kept me busy !. We were joking that our burger joint would be called “Windy’s” .. (as in Wendy’s.. ok. you had to be there.. )

We’re now sitting in the house waiting for the relics of Hurricane Issac to come sweeping in..We’re expecting heavy rains and strong winds.. Everything’s canceled for tonight.: he party we were going to, the dance at the school. People are battening down. it reminds me a little of the wait for Irene. .. Like Irene.. it kinda looks like the danger is overstated.. right now it’s just a gentle rain and no wind. .. It was like that with Irene… it wasn’t until the next day that I fully appreciated what had happened here.

So.. we’re just waiting out the storm… keep dry everyone !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

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Friday night – art hop !

Just home form the Burlington Art Hop.. It’s a great city-wide happening when all sorts of folks come out to see all sorts of art. Diane and I got down there a little before 6. First stop was to see friend Chris’ opening at the Flynn Dog. He has some really great steampunk pieces. They are just so beautiful.. I’m so proud of chris.. I helped him a little by adding sound effects to the sub.. and gabe helped make some of the seaweed pieces..

My firend Kates stuff was in the same gallery space.

THen we drove back up the street to see the Vermont Makers.. Along the way we ran into so many old freinds. Here’s Urion , his borthe rand friends. Urion was in Sam’s band . he’s an awseom kid an awesome musician

there was music on pine street at several venues.. including right across from our Vermont makers space.

the stores were decked out as gallery’s too. here’s my favorite lighting store.

some guys out back doing glass blowing.

with soem great stained glass next door

our maker compound had soem great stuff. Jenn was there with her arduion baloon project, eric had lots of cool light bling, Steve had his qudcopter and colin brought the UVM light thingy..  We had a steady stream of folks com through all night.. we were letting them know about the Champlain Makers Faire  and the Vermont Makers meetups. i think we got soem good new recruits !

I also had my hoop there.. kids were playing  with it all night..

another nice lady came by with a commercial light up hoop somewhat like mine.. her’s was really nice.. .and it was cool to compare feeatures. Hers cost 370$ (Yow !)

Last stop was pine street studio to see yolk and friends. .. And I got to see the site of the possible Burlignton fablab.. space is great , needs work, but i saw the potential. Mayor Miro was there too and he even tried the hoop !

(sorry, didn’t get a picture of that 🙂

we live in such a hip state.. I love it.

OK.. I’m so exhausted.. More tomorrow.

night all, night sam

-me