Thursday night – superlatives

June 12, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

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

June 12, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

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

Tuesday night – proud papa

June 10, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Just back from a senior awards night presentation with Gabe and Diane.. Gabe and his friends got recognized for several things which made us very proud.. it was nice to see Gabe recognized for their academic work .. what I loved even more was seeing that his teachers and peers recognize that he’s a really nice guy. .. we already knew that ! We are very proud of you my son ! Congrats to you and all your friends that got recognized tonight !

nite all. nite sam

-me

Monday night – Happy birthday Gabe !

June 9, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Happy 19th birthday Gabriel Mariano Cohn.. I am so pleased, grateful and proud to be your dad !

19 years old.. hard to beleive.. but then again.. it’s not. I’ve really enjoyed watchign thsi kid mature into a fine man. He’s funny, smart, strong and quick.. and a really, really nice guy. So nice in fact, thathe went on a hike withcme and dine today.. We headed up preston pond trail up to libys lookout.. it was hot muggy and buggy.. but look at that smile anyway.. that’s Gabe !

we found about 7 places with pitcher plants on our hike.. which was pretty cool !

the trails were still wet..

the dogs were so hot that they jumped in whatever water they could find.

i was digging aroun in the backback we were carrying.. it was sams.. and I found this cool badge that they’d given Sam on his birthday when we spent it at Disney.. it was great finding it on Gabes birthday .