Yearly Archives: 2012

Saturday night – open studio

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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

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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

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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

Wednesday night – essential

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Finally, aboard my flight home dafter an hour an a half delay.. I won’t get home until after 1.. A long but fruitful couple of days. Today woke to the gentle rocking of the boat.. Showered and got on the road.. A little late which exposed me to what NYC traffic can really be like I had left an hour an a half for the 40 minute drive and took an hour .. Not too bad. I spent the entire day at our Watson lab which is always fun and humbling . So many smart people walking the halls. I spent every second of today either meeting with folks or in phone meetings.. Didn’t even get time to eat.. But I out knowing more than I went in with, so I was happy.
One of the high pouts of the day was an odd but fun webcasted panel session with 3 of my friends.. My friends weren’t the (only) odd part of it.. It was that the 4 of us were sitting in Chris at the front of a large but entirely empty auditorium. The topic was a fun one.. We were talking about what it takes for a company to be ‘essential’. Its an interesting topic .. And a hard one to pin down.. Afterall, It’s not something you can say about yourself.. essential is in the minds of the beholders Still, it was fun to toss some ideas back and forth with some old friends..

So….What do you all think makes a company essential ? What companies do you think are essential ? What problems would a company have to solve to be considered essential ?
Id Like to hear what you think..

Oh.. We’re landing.. More tomorrow.

Nite all, nite Sam
-me

Now, my company is not saying that we are essential .. We recognize that Thats something other folks have to say about you.. But.. We were discussing what it would it