Saturday evening – Congratulations Gabe !

congratulations to our son Gabriel Mariano Cohn on his graduation from High school.. woooooot , woooooot !!!

We’re so proud of you gabe..

Here’ he is heading off to commencement wearing our friend Dylan’s Shoes.. even with the original knots.

wWe all got to patrick gym in plenty of time to get good seats..

 

There he is !!!!

 

Zev and freind were marshals.. last year that was Gabe’s job !  Mr Weston, the priciple (and our friend) kicked off the show

 

 

David B did the student respone to the charge.. adn won the citizenship award. Congrats David !

 

then came the time for the degreess.. here’s Gabe before his metamorphosis..

 

And here he is after.. Every year for the last 6, soemone has wrn the tie dye commencement gown.   Our freind gretchen made it for her kid tyler in 2008 and it’s passed down in secret to soemoen in the graduating class.. This year it was gabes turn.. he’d wornit under his normal robe

 

 

 

And there it is.. he’s OFFICIAL !!!  Congrats my son !

 

 

even got a hug from the principal !  (P-A-L .. the principal is your PAL !)

 

Gabe was wearign Sam and Dylan on his mortarboard. he did that at 2am last night..

 

then came all those other kids 🙂 .. it was great to see them all. I claspped for every single one..


 

 

Then it was over !.. Outside for pics.. Gabe had even asked me to bring my own tie dye.. how cow nice is that when your kid actually asks you for something like that ?!

 

great having the family all there.. we all had samstones with us.. issing that boy today for sure !

 

 

here’s  friend jack..

 

 

 

 

the whole bressor clan !

 

gabe nd ian

 

gabe and raya !

 

gabe and mama !

 

tie-dye family !

 

gabe with our buddy Jack ..

 

austin nd Caroline

 

the Brothers Cohn !

 

WJAG (will, Jack. Austin, Gabe).. freinds since Kindergarten !

 

the sloans !

 

Jack catcheing Vivian

 

Gabe’ and freinds..

 

the Brandts and elana

 

a huge collection of grads !

 

Me and Krisitn.. It was nice seeing her and her family !

 

Gabe’s hat..

 

 

then it was off to thtim and Jen’s lake house.. Tye were the kind hosts of our small gradualtion party.. Its always fun goign out there.. Tim just got two jet skis.. this was our first time to try them.. wow !

 

Debra  , diane and jen cooked a wonderful meal. they are such great cooks. Mostly mediteranian.. lots of spreads.. ad grilled meats..  it was so delicious !  I’m still radiating garlic.

 

 

here’s gabe trying water skiing behind a jet ski for the very first time.. he’s a natural. !

 

The sirens..

 

the lake was chppy and beutiful today.. with stiff winds and high 60’s.. nice !

 

Then congratulations cake.. three different kinds !

 

Lots of good old friends on hand.. here’s Luke..

 

OK.. now.. i’m gonna try to get a coupe of hours sleep.  Gabe’s at the all night ‘project grad’ celeibration Diane and I are   joinging as chaperones from midnight to 3am on the boat witht he kids.. gotta sleep now !

 

congratulations Gabriel !!!

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

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Thursday night – superlatives

Just back from the senior banquet and superlatives.. I wonder when the next time I’ll eat dinner in a school gym ?

It was a really nice night.. and the final event (for us) before graduation on Sat.

After dinner came ‘senior superlatives’..these are peer voted awards on  everything from ‘best Vermonter’ to  “best hair”.. it was great to see all the nice things they said about each other..

our friend Jack W got ‘most school spirit’, Kristin got ‘best story teller’, Jack B got ‘best dancer’, Ben got ‘best looking’.. Ali, Marina, Marcello and Jeff got ‘best athletes’…  Gabe got ‘best personality ‘..

 

congrats to all of you !

 

Tomorrow the kids have to go practice their cap and gown stuff.. They need to be at UVM by 7:30 am… ugh !

 

My mom and max are in for gabe’s graduation.. a fun and  busy week

the funny thing is.. i had so many reasons to be out of town this week ..It’s noce to just be here !

 

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

Wednesday night – Ants

It’s nearly 2AM and I’m too tired to think.. So I’ll relate an interesting factoid I learned the other day. I was listening to a fascinating talk by Prof Nick Gotelli .Nick hd just been elected to VASE .. the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering and he was explaining his research to us.

 

Nick is a biologist who studies many things. One thing he looks at is the effect of climate change on genetics. He studies ants because they are plentiful and their genome is well understood.   In the course of his talk, Nick said that if you go to any forest in the world.. and managed to take all of the animal life in a cubic volume of that forest  minus the ants  on one side of a giant scale.. then managed to put just the ants from that same volume on the other side of the scale.. the ants would weigh more

 

 

amazing to think about that..  perchance now to dream about that

 

ntite all. nite sam

-me