Monthly Archives: July 2014

Sunday night – a day behind

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I didn’t get to post my pictures last night.. so here are a few pics from yesterday.. First visitor was Michael, A long trail hiker who we picked up off the street and fed.. nice guy, used to work in the MIT Media lab where I once worked as well !  he might be ourone of our last long trail hikers as the new bridge will take our house off the long trail route !

 

 

by about 10, the house was full of kids.. they all had been sleeping here.. soemhwhere.. I thin I counted 12 of them !

 

then later in the day, another nice surprise.. Parker was in town.. He, Conner and Eric dropped by right before I left for the phish show. It was really good checking in with them.. Gabe went boating with them on the winosski which sounded fun !

I then drove the 2 hours down to Schroon lake to pick up my buddy Jim for the concert.. here’s Archie who met me as I drove up to Jim’s family’s lake house..   Beautiful !

here are jim and his family.. al really funny and nice folks ..

Jim and I drove down to SPAC and got there just as Chris  and Kim got there..It was so great to see them.. though  They had some very weird/sad news..   It feels strange to insert it here.. but here. goes.

They had tried to go tubing yesterday wth their friends Abby and Adam.. they were all loaded on a converted school bus to haul them to the put-in.. Somewhere along the route, the bus’s breaks failed as the bus was goign downhill. the bus flipped over and one of the young tour guides , a boy named Hunter’ was thrown from the bus… and killed.. everyone had to climb out of the roof of the bus … it was so sad .. they were all still in shock…  they decided to go to the concert anyway.. since there was nothing esle they could do… the story made me so sad… that poor kid.. and his family… The story is here.

and then.. we …..

man.. it seems strange to go on from there….

…. we went into the show..

we had great seats.. (second row).. I got to watch these two deaf interpreters ‘sing’ the songs  in ASL for a few deaf concertgoers

it ws a really nice time… it was so great hanging out with Jim.. I hadn’t gotten to spend much time with him since his accident.. He was in such a great place.. happy, in love with the world and fun to hang out with..

we got back to Schroon around 1.. and I decided to stay the night.. .. here’s this morning..

i got on the road around 8.. and drove back through a perfect picture postcard day..

  I stopped in to say hi to homer as i drove through.. he was making some very cool signs..

I got home around 11.. we took a hike, a swim.. then went over to our friends and neighbors the Quinns. Our dear frind Janet Quinn died a year ago today so the family all came together to remember.. it was great seeing everyone..

Devin was there with his new baby Cameron and really nice GF shantal.

Here’s four generatiosn of Quinns… Cameron, Devin. mie and pat.. pretty cool !

OK.. i gotta sleep.. More tomorrow..

nite all. nite sam

-me

Friday night – Fourth !

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Great fourth of july here in Richmond.. It’s one of my favorite days of the year because I get to see so many folks in our small town come out and socialize. I really do love this place.

First thing on the agenda oday was the parade.. As always we gathered at the Bressors to watch the firetrucks, ponies skaters ,bands,  politicians and antique cars..

 

 

 

 

as always, our friend marshal was the last one in the parae.. dancing and limber on those stilts.. amazing.

 

then we headed over to volunteer green to eat french fries and check out the vendors, see friends and just hang out..

Then home for a day of hanging out with friends, family and food !

ellen with salad..

funky strawbery we found.. it looks like.. oh.. never mind..

three kinds of eggplant salad !

jim and his tattoos of his kids artwork .

here we are trying to stay warm.. it was in the low 60s.. maybe even the high 50’s//

gabe and raya looked like twins !

finally. fireworks in the park. We watched them from the bressors.. tit was great seeing the early ones against the not quite dark skies..

i love the spiders left in the air..!

and.. as always. I’ll leave on a negative..

hope you all had a good 4th as well. Go America !

-nite all. nite sam

-me

Thursday night – knife story

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I really didn’t do anything today. I made the mistake of looking at my work email this morning and that drained some the fun out of my day 🙁 ..   I spent the rest of the day trying to stay cool. mostly floating in the pool, finishing up the lab clean up and coding  for fun.   We were goign to go to the fireworks tonight.. but the rain made it less attractive.. so Diane and I stayed home and vegged.. that was nice…..

since nothing happened that was worth reporting, I’ll tell a Sam story i recently heard from Nate just last week. Once when Sam and Nate were in Middle school, they wet to the fair..  They must have been 12 or so years old. Sam loved goign to the Fair and checking out the stuff they had to sell. This time, he used his food money to buy a big, cheap pocket knife. One of those almost switch blade types.. not well made, but big.. The nthe two of them decided it was time for some rides. they chose the Zipper.. a crazy carny ride that whips you around up and down and back and forth in a tiny cage…

The machine started up and the cage started spinning.. .. a few seconds in to the ride, the new knife flies out of Sam’s pocket and opens up.. As the ride swung them around, the open knife started  flying around in the cage miraculously missing  the boys .. They started screaming their heads off.. .. but so was everyone else on the ride was screaming too. Finally the ride stopped to unload. .. with no blood spilled.. the guys cage stopped abruptly at the top so the ride guy unloaded the cage at the bottom. just as the car stopped, the knife started to fall through a crack in the floor.. right about the ride guys head.. sam managed to dive for it and grab t before it fell through and skewered the guy ..

seconds later they were at the bottom, they unloaded laughing hysterically.. and the ride guy didn’t know what (almost) hit him.

don’t know why, but i love that story ..

nite all, nite sam

-me