I’m sitting here waiting for an appointment so I picked up the Mountain Gazette, the local paper for Underhill , Bolton and Jericho. There’s a great piece on the Bolton Night Riders Series. Night Riders is a great night skiing and riding competition up at Bolton Valley. Sam and Gabe both competed there for years. In fact this was the first year that gabe didn’t do it.
The article finished with a nice description of the Sam Cohn Award m an award we sponsor to the kid who seems like they most love being up on that mountain. This year my friend Pete’s son Jonathon won. He sent us the nicest letter . I can tell that the judges made the right choice with him
It was strange picking up a random paper like that and reading about Sam…. He is truly still everywhere
On the way home, I took a short detour to say hi to friend Chris . He’s been working on a new steam punk sculpture.. This one is a woman made entirely out of copper fittings… You have got to see this thing to believe it . Chris is just so talented….!
Ok.. Hats it for now… More tomorrow .
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
I finally broke down today and got an iPad. I’m doing it as an experiment of sorts to see if I can learn to read on this thing. As I’ve mentioned here recently, I’m having trouble keeping up with all the reading that I want and/or have to do. Supposedly, these things are good for that. I have 30 days to figure out if that’s true. So far… I have to say I love it. I do still feel a little guilty for leaving my android and pc behind…. But these apple things are like a bad addiction . Can’t get enough,
( does this make me a bad person )
Not much else to report today . The big thing this evening is that the uvm seed team came over nd we worked on their project, the’ve come such a long way the last couple of weeks I think the project is going to be pretty cool. Here are some pics from the evening ,
Ok that’s all for now. More mañana
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
It rained yesterday and today.. and I can’t remember being so glad to see it do so. It’s been very dry his spring.. there was little snow to melt a so we had no flooding.. and only a little of the axle breaking rutted roads we normally expect in ‘mud season’. After the long warm.. or maybe even hot.. spell we had a few weeks back the weather has reverted to a more seasonable temperature.. but none of the April showers that we so often get. It was so dry here that last week a smoldering truck tire flew off and started a brush fire up in Colchester.
When I woke to see rain this morning, was actually glad.. I was even glad one of our rain wet dogs jumped up on the bed to wake me up. I lay there this morning enjoying the familiar sound of the rain and enjoying the soft grey light from outside. I even enjoyed driving to work with the wipers on. I.
All mornign at work I stared out the window into my little courtyard at work and nd watched the rain streak down my windows.. It was so peaceful ! Normally by this time of year everyone is sick of the rain.. it was nice to have the change…
I had a day that would be very hard to describe here.. so I won’t even try.. Suffice it to say that I spent the day beside myself.. Not as ‘in distress’.. but as in ‘my brain and my body were displaced’.. I had the strong feeling of being out of my body.. or … to be more precise .. about 6 inches behind my body for nearly all of the day.. in fact.. i still have it. I’m blogging from approximately 6 inches further back than physical body that is typing these words.. 6 inches may not seem like much.. but it’s a bit like driving from the back seat of your car..everythign seems a bit further away.. a bit slower.. and a bit more quiet. Not unpleasant really.. just strange.. The extra six inches is giving me a muted dreamy way of going through the world.. It’s a perfect psychophysical metaphor for how behind I’m feeling right now.. Everything is going pretty well in my life .. though I am always feeling a little behind.
I’m going to bed tonight not knowing If I’ll wake up caught up. directly in my body.. or wake up even further back.. …I’ll just have to be surprised and see !
