Tuesday night – funky water

September 3, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

Ahhhh. Its back in the low 60's out and the crickets are back. Its definitely heading towards fall again after a short detour back to summer. We took advantage of the warm and lazy day yesterday to float down the winooski a couple of miles on inner tubes.. The warm slow water had a pleasant funky smell .. The rapids were so shallow that you had to practically levitate to prevent from leaving skin on the rocks…

Even though i was only a quarter mile from my house i couldn't have been much more cut off from people.. It was just me and fish and the ducks… And the funky water ……hard to believe that In 3 months you'll be able to walk across that river bit in yesterday's heat i was happy to be stewing in it

Hmmmm, must have been a peaceful day if all i can think of to write about is funny smelling water from yesterday.

Nothing wrong with that i suppose..

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Sunday night – Happy birthday Mom and Billy !

September 2, 2013 johncohn 1 Comment

Today I want to wish a very happy birthday to my Mom and my baby Brother. Mom is a an wonderfully active, energetic, fun loving and adventurous 80 year old today and Billy is an inspiring, amazingly inventive and wonderfully talented.. uh… 12 year old , I think , Or thats how old he was when I last remember asking him..

They are two of the brightest, wittiest and loving people I know on this planet and I’m glad to be sharing genes with both of them.

Happy birthday you guys ! I love you both very much !!!

nite all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – chris and amanda’s wedding

September 2, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

We had a day full of family and friends. This morning we had a really nice brunch at my cousin in law Billy and Debra’s house. Our mutual cousins John and Jean were in town from Wisconsin to drop their son Evan off fer his first semester at Middlebury. We hadn’t seen John and Jean them in years.. It was really nice catching up .. I’t always nice seeing Billy and Debra. Billy and I are about to start on a new project at UVM which I’m looking forward to. More on that in coming weeks

John called his mother, my great aunt, ellen.. so we all could talk.. here’s ellen looking pretty good by phone ..

later in the afternoon we headed to the Round Church for Chris and Amanda’s wedding.. We were married there 27 years ago yesterday.. so being in there was especially nice.

Chris ahas been our neighbor since before he was born. our kids grew up with him.. he was prettyclose to family over here.. He and amanda have been togheter for almost 12 years.. they make a really nice pair.

the wedding was short and sweet.. .. the new bride and groom walked out of the church to a live version of ‘B-b-b-Bad to the bone”.. pretty cool !

Anabdas dad has a really well known set of body shopsin the area.. and he has a cool collection of cars.. like this one !

It was fun being there all together.

after folks filed out, we took advantage to grab a few quick pix of us back in the round church..

Then we all headed over to the Sheratan for the reception.

amanda and chris arrived about an hour later..

first they danced..

while max made butterman

Chris’s big brother jeffery gave chris and amanda a hand airbrushed paintin tf the two of them.. it was amazing !!

here’s chris’s family.

chris dancing with Rose, his mom..

Amanda and her dad danced a really cute routine that kept changing musical styles.. it was a hoot !

then came the bouquet toss

then looking for the garter.

then the garter toss… an itersting set of traditions.. !

they had a photobooth there that was really cool !

and we crammed in9 people to the both.. tie for the record !

The wedding was good fun.. It was great seeing Chris and Amanda so happy and also very good catching up with Chris’s family..

After the reception, we went home and changed into comfy clothes and most of us heaed to chris c’s for an evening of fire swords, fire boy and fire breathing.. all very cool !..

now i’m too tired to type more.. gotta sleep

more tomorrow !

nite all. nite sam

-me

Ssturday night – 27 years of Wif’ and ‘band

September 1, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

27 years ago today Diane and I got married in the Round Church in Richomnd. and we are still so much in love. am so grateful and happy to have diane in my life.

As a gift, a subeam came in and lit the back of this plant for me.. how cool is that ?

We got our for a short hike this morning before the house woke up.. we spent our walk through the muggy. buggy weather talking about how nice it is to be together.. .. i love that girl so much !

qw did a little trail exploring and came out on a logging road we didn’t recognize.. .. it was the same old road, it had just been badly cut up by the terrible storms in july.. .. These same roads were compeltely destroyed in Irene and rebuilt.. seeing it happen again was pretty sobering..

THere was a 10 foot ditch where we used to drive our car, and a 50 foot culvert had been yanked out of the roadbed..

nothings driving on this for awhile. I wonder if they will rebuild it yet again ?

After the hike, we went home . hung out with the kids and waited out the rain..

Later in the afternoon we headed up to tim and jens.. for a cookout. they had a good sized crowd of friends..

The lake was queit and still in the misty , muggy afternoon..

Lots of cooks, lots of food.. everythign from hambergers,soy dogs, clam frittersm kim chi, Brussels sprouts, corn, cheese bread, salads.. yum !

It was great getting all the kids together.. .. it was pretty much the old ‘friends of sam’ group.. all now wonderful adults.

the grown ups weren’t bad either !

yikes.. look at my filthy feet !

After cake,we all headed down to teh lake for a campfire and max doign soem fire spinning.. We made up a trick last night using boric acid and alchohol to make the fire poi burn green.. pretty cool !