Monthly Archives: January 2014

Tuesday night – anything but the colony

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In new jersey at a client meeting. Really good set of technical meetings, and good conversation at dinner… somehow, however, the topic of the colony comes up. I didn't bring it up. A friend of mine at dinner did .

My New Year's resolution is to move beyond the colony. Not that I didn't love it, not that it wasn't valuable, not that it doesn't bring great memories with it… It's just that My life is not defined by 59 days of poor diet and poor hygiene five years ago.

I seem to have trouble avoiding it. Though. When I start talking about it, I have trouble stopping. Out come the same stories. The same questions, It's almost an addiction.

Is there a colonists anonymous?

I think I need another adventure to chase that one out of my head. Any suggestions?

Night all, night sam

-me

Monday night – Andrews farm fire

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We woke this morning to an automated phone call from the school telling us that the school buses couldn't get through on route 2 between Jonesville and Richmond. I was confused at first because the same route had been closed yesterday because of flooding. it turned out there had been a major fire at the Andrews Farm barn right near Richmond. It had burned to the ground. The blaze started around 5 AM and was reported by someone driving by. By the time the fire department got there the barn was totally engulfed and was a total loss. Thankfully, no one or no animals were injured in the blaze.

It's a really sad when we lose a historic building like that. The barn was currently being used for food processing. But for many years it was a working farm owned by Mary Jo and Everett Andrews. Both of them passed away in the last 10 years or so. They were great couple. I remember Mary Jo showing up at our house to talk about the archaeological finds that came out when they built the bridge across a Huntington River near our house. She was very interested in history and talked about the bear bones and pottery that was found within hundred yards of our house back in the 80s.

Sure who owns the Andrews farm now but I'm sorry for their loss. It makes me sad to see things like this go… It's impermanence… It's entropy i guess.

Night all, night Sam
– Me

Heres a couple of photos. Of the plays from WCAX Hope they don't mind me posting them here.

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Sunday night – January thaw

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We are in the middle of the January thaw. I t happens nearly every year, temperatures jump above freezing, the snow melts and things flood.. but this year, there’s note really much snow.. just ice.. It’s been near 40 degrees out ( a real heat spell for this time of year !) Actually.. it’s kind of nice to get the ice to melt.. it’s 3 inches think in places on roads, sidewalks,etc.. It’s as hard as concrete.. so the only thing to do is to wait for it to thaw.. and thaw it did !

The runoff and the rain we had have created some chaos.  The Barlows field is now a lake

 

Their road is a skating rink

Our back  yard is a lake as well

The river is way out of its banks.. here’s the woods across the street from us.

Upstream of the bridge rive itself is an ice jam about a half mile long. (literally, i ran it) . Well not really a jam.. as water is still flowing underneath

down stream of our bridge, the winooski is pretty clear.

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route 2 was closed all morning. Cochran and duxbury roads were down to one lane

Route 2 was really messy

the water was a couple of foot deep

I went for a few miles run to chek out the flooding. spied this guy lookign surprised.. and maybe a bit mad !

Our back yard lake was pretty deep as well… I couldn’t resist taking our funky 2 man kayak out in it..

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I love this place.. nature enjoys making us crazy 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

Saturday night – Go pats, i think

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greetings from tim and jens… i’ve snuck off from the festivities because i’ve exceeded my 5 min of allowed football on tv. we’re up here watching the patriots play the colts… both teams seem positively obsessed with a small oblong ball that they keep pushing back and forth. whats even more interesting is that many folks seem to be watching them obsess about the ball. very curious

actaully.. i have a little bit more interest in football  (only a little) when  I played  football in 5th (or was it 6th ? ) grade .. i remember being as bewildered about the game then as i am about things like travel expense accounts and income tax now.. I Know that something important was happening.. but i simply couldn’t understand the rules that everybody around me seemed to understand so well

i do have some great memories of football as a kid though.. i remember setting up our weird tv tray s in the den eating really big (dagwood) sandwiches and drinking beer with my dad .. i think that started when i was only 13 or so… i still equate football with underage drinking.. so I think i;ll go get myself a beer for old time sake

nite all, nite sam

-me