Monthly Archives: September 2014

Tuesday night – little people

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Interesting treat this afternoon. I had the annual board advance (opposite of retreat) at the Echo science museum . The goal in this coming year is to increase our STEM outreach to preschool . To drive the point home, the museums very engaging preschool science coordinator. Elizabeth treated the board members to a quick story time circle. Complete with preschool size chairs.   It was a great way to get us thinking like kids.. very creative !..  We read “little turtles big adventure” and made our own turtle habitat. By the end I was ready for nap time..

 

now back to work.. very, very  busy times for me..

nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – father time 2

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Just back from Chris’s house. Had to help him fix a motion sensor on one of his pieces.. All fixed now. He and ki are heading to Georgia tomorrow for another burn. This one is father time 2.. ther first father time was a year ago or so.. This one  is portable size as he has to fit in a trailer on the way down.

 

as always, Chris has done and excellent job. look at this guy !  Wonderful, flammable art !

 

earlier in the day diane pryed me out of work and we took a run up honey hollow.. It was so beutiful up there.. Again.. couldn’t take my camera on the run.. but here are the sights on the way in and on the way out. It’s fall for sure !

i feel so lucky to live in this beautiful place..

time for sleep

nite all. nite sam

-me

Sunday night – the eagle has landed

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Perfect fall day today. Diane and I took off early to drop by On The Rise on their second to last day. We wanted to pick up sticky buns for Gabe. It was cool looking around in there.. The place has been very much part of our lives for the last 10 years. There’s even a samstone built into their chimney. We wish all the best for Rachel and Ben in their next adventure..

 

to run Libby’s Loop on the Preston reserve. Its a steep climb and descent.. we made it in about 45 minutes.. not bad !. The view from the top was amazing. It’s getting to be  peak foliage at the higher elevations now.   Sorry I idn’t take pictures.. it is hard o run with my phone on those rough trails

 

After our run, we left immediately for Fritz and Betsy’s.. they had invited us to go out on the lake wiht them in their boat. It was so much fun !. we all drove to charlotte.. where fritze ferried us all out to the boat

 

Fritz sailed us around on the lake for the next 3 hours. it was pretty quiet.. and peaceful out there.. perfect weather.. what treat !

 

too soon it was time to go in..   Again fritz ferried us back.. and we all headed home

 

around 5:00 I went back into BTV to pick up Gabe. Today was our friend Jack W’s Eagle Scout ceremony. Jack is such a great kid i was so proud of him. There was a nice crowd gathered in the green to watch Jack get his award

lots of folks spoke about the eagle scout path and about Jacks accomplishment . Jack got to give his parents a pin, and they got to pin stuff on him.. quite a cool family deal.

here’s the sign for the richmond green that jac made for his eagle project. it’s really nice .

there was so much talk about eagles.. it made me want to repost the picture of the eagle I took in our backyard last june..

ok.. gabe is visiting us tonight.. I want to go spend some time with him.. so I’ll end here..

more tomorrow. nite all, nite sam

-me

Saturday night – I fall for that girl

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Diane and I both love Fall so much. She’s the one who makes sure we get out in it when ever we can. We took a  3 hour hike up to Harrington’s View on Bolton today, then hiked down the rugged and beautiful ‘Goat Path’ Th eleaveswere beginning to change and it was gorgeous.

midday I went over to visit our friend Jimmy. He’s just back from a trip to the south east where he placed a bunch of Samstones. We started walking through his many pictures to get the samstone placements. He’s such a good friend to take Sam on his trip like that..

While there, I enjoyed seeing his Ariel TV’s (as opposed to TV Aeriel’s)

I spent the rest of the day .. about 8 hours so far.. working on an upcoming talk. Making progress.. As always.. it starts on the yoga room floor !

OK.. its past midnight.. enough work for one day..

more tomorrow

night all, nite sam

-me