Monthly Archives: June 2014

Sunday night – deer

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Nice day today.. Diane and i took a 5 mile run from stage road ..across the VAST trail and back on snipe ireland road.. A bit wet, but really nice and mostly downhill. Is pent most of the day cleaning my shop.. I still have a few days of work.. Before its really usable… More onthat. Tomorrow.

Now Its late and diane is asleep… So i will only tell a quick story.. ..last night i took a quick run on the rivershore..as i ran out i noticed how deep and soft the sand on the trail was..mine were the only tracks i saw.. I turned around at the end and headed back. I immediately noticed the hoof prints of a fairly large deer. I knew they hadnt been there when i had run the trail just minutes before. I realized the deer must still be close.. Just then, this huge deer.. A doe i think.., sprang through the ferns just a few yards ahead of me..it was pretty magical

A sign of some kind ? I need to stay open to magic always

Nite all, nite sam

– me

 

Saturday night – plan c

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Sitting alone after a long day that didn't work out exactly as planned. I had the whole day to myself.. One of those rare days where I didn't have anything to do for anyone else. .. it seems to happen about 3 times a year. I used it to catch up. First I went to generator and fixed the webcam there.. then I went to Firehouse gallery and restarted floorish with the help of my friends Colin and john.. then I went to Chris's to help him prep for his solstice burn (happy solstice).

 

This was Chris's 14th burn.. my job for tonight was pretty simple. I was to have provided the simple electronic ignition to make the sun go off in Helios's hand.. We went there this morning and tried it out.. everything worked fine..

the trouble is.. tonight.. noting worked….

 

Plan A was to use a fancy electronic igniteors that I made to ignite the sun in Helios's hand.. that didn't work.. no idea why… despite a full dry run.. .. Plan B was to light a backup fuse that should have lit the hand.. that also didnt work.. Plan C we made up on the spot.. we had the fire breathers blow fire on the guys body.. that worked great and looked great..

 

No one watching would have known anything had gone wrong.. but I was left wondering how both plan a and b had gone so wrong.. gotta meditate on that,

 

 

It was beutiful and OH -so frustrating.. no one knew it didin't work as planned but i did..

 

need to learn how to weather those defeats better

 

might all, nite sam

-=me

 

Friday night – short fuse

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Good and busy day for the last day of spring. It only got up to 65 degrees and that’s hot enough for me. Thanks to Diane’s green thumb, the yard is a riot of colors already ..

After work I had a rush maker job to create some electrically lit fuses for Chris’s burn tomorrow night (Helios.. the sun g-d)   > I took apart an old soldering iron and took out the nichrome wire..    hooked it to copper wire annd taped them to paper..

Then I measured out 180g of Potassium nitrate and 120 grams of sugar and melted them in a pan on the grill outside.. I did it outside because I once almost burnt down my friend Jeff’s house doing this

I then spread the melted KNO3/Sugar mix over the nichrome res , wraped them up and let them harden. I did a est and they worked GREAT.. sorry.. forgot to take a picture !

After than .. Gabe. Jack and Luke decided they would go camp on one of the Islands in the Winooski tonight. They packed up the canoe

and headed down the river.. Diane and I managed to see them go buy while we were out walking the dogs by the river.. We’re standing about 300 yeards from our house.. we  feel lucky to live in such a  beautiful place !

OK.. gonna try to watch some TV tonight. haven’t done that in many weeks. wish me luck..

nite all. nite sam

-me

Thursday night – Eco Logic

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Just back from a quick trip down to Boston. Stayed at Mom’s last night and attended a good work meeting this morning in downtown Boston. The meeting was in the famous Porter House Hotel. .. Hoe ot the prter house rolls and of the boston creme pie. I hadn’t been in there since my grandmother stayed there when I was in College more than 30 years ago.. I don’t think it’s changed a bit.. .. The halways are decorated with storys of the famous folks who have workde or stayed htere .. including

 

folks like Walt Whitman

 

 

JFK had his bachelor party there

 

 

Malcolm X worked there

 

Charles Dickens stayed there

 

and Nathaniel Hawthorne did too.. 

 

and my baby sister Mary even got married there 10 years ago !

 

that history made the meetings even more interesting..

 

 

I left the moment the meeting were over and managed to make it back to Burlington in time for a 6 oclock social and meet-up at Generator.  First there was a mixer.. there was beer, wine and food !

 

The topic tonight was ‘Eco-Logic’ ..   (Ohhhh.. I just got it as in Ecological !).. My friends Rebeccah and Ken and another cool woman.. an ecological economist..  spoke on art and the environment..

the talks were all really great.. The first woman spoke about better ways than GDP ays of measuring collective well  being . Rebeccah spoke  about the role of Art in ecology and visa versa.. she’s very intreseted in using trash as art to start a conversation on mass consumption. Ken specifically talked about 3d printing. and the transformation its drivign in creativity, rpduction, ownership, etc..

 

I loved the energy and conversations there tonight.. Thanks ya’ll for coming out !

 

gotta sleep.. falling asleep at the keyboard here..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me