Sunday night – displaced

 

I woke today displaced.. .. by exactly 3 feet. Last night we moved all of our furniture in our room.. to make way for painting. Our bed is now about 3 feet further north than it used to be.. and I have to say the climate there is  just as nice as the old space.. still, it’s strange waking up and seeing almost exactly the same thing you see every morning.. but not quite..

 

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Midday DIanes brother Steve showed up .. He’s coming back from visiting his new grandson Mason in New Hampshire. It was so good catching up with him. We took a nice walk up to the lower gorge.. As we went we caught up on family stories.. it was really great to hear all about our Kansas family.. IMG_4565

 

Too cold to go in the river today.. but I was tempted.

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Around 5:30 I headed down to NY for 3 dys of meeting. That gave me a chance to drop by the boat and see Max !

 

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It was Martina and Adonis’s engagement party so the joint was jumping. a full party was going on. It was great seeing Martina and Andonis and all their freinds.. they are such awesome people.. lots of  very cool people, good food, fire dancing, a dj.. the works. IMG_4602

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Pretty late now.. so i’ll sign off.. more tomorrow !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Saturday night – Ms Macha’s Kindergarten class

Facebook is a wonderful tool for reconnecting. Out of the blue yesterday I heard from my friend Steve who was my classmate in Ms Macha’s kindergarten class in 1965-65. It’s been great catching up with almost 100 years of non-common experience to share..  ..in addtion to memories, Steve  also had  this awesome class picture ..   We were trying to remember names. Tara, Laurie, Todd, Casey, Steve, Shelly, Heidi, Grant.. Porter….

Where are they now ? What have they done with their lives.    How many stories ? how many kids ?    If yo’re reading this and you see yourself.. let me know !

I’m  in the righ most table, inside row, 5th from the left next to my friend Tara..

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Here’s a close up.. can’t remember the kid across from me.. but thats an world class tongue sticking  out.. no ?

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Don’t recognize me ? Well.. I hardly could either.. see if these help 🙂

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Memories are so great to share

 

nte all, nite sam

-me

Friday evening – Wasps

I had an early morning meeting downtown, then came back and worked at home all day. It was a great day to work in the bell tower . it was cool with bright sun. So cool in fact that all of the wasps that normally hang out in the tower were staggering around like drunken sailors. They were landing on my head and on my feet and on my laptop. After about an hour of that I stopped jumping every time one landed on me. See their stingers but they were in no mood to sting. They're actually fun to watch… They kept me company in fact One even landed in my tea and then lazily pulled itself out and flew away.

Drink… Or not to drink?… I drank

As the afternoon wore on the, air got warmer and the wasps got more lively. I swear one of them that landed on my leg just woke up two it's Waspy Ness as soon as it warmed up . it realized that it needed to defend itself. and had to brush it away before it stung me…

At that point, I realized there were more of them than me and they had Just a few weeks before the air gets too cold for them and they did whatever wasps do during the winter… Which I don't think involves survival.

I decided to leave them at peace and went downstairs and did my work. In their honor I lazily buzzed around the warm room in the bright sunshine spinning slowly and trying not to sting anything as I talked on the phone.

Night, night Sam

-me

 

Thursday night – more cowbell

Gabe needed a cowbell today… (don’t ask why).. Now.. we have at least 2 cowbells around here.. but they were part of Sam’s drum set.. Where did they go ? .. Gabe and I went up to the attic to see if we could find them.. we found both of our drum sets stacked near the back of the attic.. I ran my hands over them.. they were quiet up there.. not the way they shoul dbe. I hit the drums, banged the symbols to chase away that quiet..  It didn’t really work.

.. I remember how much I loved hearing Sam play these things.. Just last week Devon found some recordings of Sam’s band , Black Knight Vengeance playing..  You can hear them here.

Gabe and I looked for those cowbells.. but never found them..

The world needs more cowbell

note all, nite sam

-me