Today i celebrated being married to Diane, the love of my life , for 29 years !. we’ve been together for 33 .. i consider myself so lucky to have diane by my side in this life (and no doubt others :-).. she’s my love, my friend.. and my best colleague.. can’t believe i got all that in one beautiful package 🙂

I took the day off.. (mostly :0) We celebrated today as we did the day before our wedding by climbing camels hump.

Hardly anyone there.. up and down in just over 3.5 hours. It was cold, cloudy and windy at the top.

we defended down the alpine trail.. and took the small side path down to the wing of the B24  that crashed here in 1944

One guy survived.. and wa found by a local boycott. .. It was strange looking at that piece of wreckage.. some of the metal still bright after 70 years !

it was a greata hike.. alternating between cold and hot, sun and clouds.. still to gale force winds. a perfect vermont summer day 🙂

later in the afternoon.. diane dropped me off at All Souls for the Vermont Maker metope. I was just there for the last hour, but got to see many of my maker friends. The community is still growing and diversifying..

All Souls is such a beautiful setting. Great thanks to my friend John A. for playing host.

Diane picked me up there and we took advantage of the nice day to stroll around the grounds and visit the labyrinth

From there Diane and I went out to our favorite restaurant.. Shush-do.. a counter service Japanese place in a strip mall in williston.. still some of the best sushi i have found outside of NYC, SF or Tokyo\\On the way home we snuck by the Round Church to make it official again .. 29 years ago today !.

i love you Diane.. Will you marry me ?! (oh wait.. you did !)

nite all, nite sam

-me

Big transition today.  We moved Gabe back to UVM ..  It’s been a good summer for him with lots of zigs and zags. He managed to get  summer class in on logic, travel to costa rica, pant the barn and break his foot. this year he’s settling in for some cool classes. Physics, organic chemistry. more math (i think)…  hope its a fun year for him

We headed to Burlington around 9 this morning with Two packed carloads of stuff !.

Babe’s on Redstone campus.. we took  back way there and managed to get sweet parking right in front to dump his stuff. .. 

He’s sharing a room with Tupper again which is great. Tuppers mom and dad were there helping Tup load in.. even with al of us it still took several hours as they arranged and re-arrainged the space . It’s a nice big room. finally they got it just the way they likeed it. 

Last night Gabe, Luke and I made a 5meter strip of bluetooth controlled accent lighting. that was the final touch on the room

Around 2 we all said goodbye and wished him luck .. 

.. and headed back home.. It’s already very quiet around here..   i took a few leaves out of the table since it’ll be just the two of us for a while

that’s kinda nice too 🙂

nite all, note sam

-me

Last night I had the privilege to sit next to Bernie Sanders and his wife on the flight back to Burlington. I’ve run in to him before on these flights. but this time was different. He is candidate Sanders. I gotta say I am so proud of this guy for running, for saying what he means.. and for his hard work and his deep intelligence. He would be an excellent president.  Some in the media want to brand him as some sort of radical , but for the last 30 years i’ve seen  what he’s done for our city, state and nation. he’s a rational humanist with  consistent and well reasoned views.. he’s deeply ethical and committed to fairness.and is so intelligent !.  I know it will be  a tough  race.. but he’s always been an underdog. i hope people keep hearing his message. He would do so many good things for our country and the world.

today was nice and slow.. a nice slow doggie run, work around the house. Including some tall window clang from 20 feet in the air

I cleaned my lab which really needed it.

Tonight our old friend Sheri came by . She’s in town dropping her daughter Lauren off.. Lauren Brought two friends and Shari brought one. We had games find Luke as well.. about 9 folks in all for summer dinner of pesto focaccia, garden tomoates and chocolate cake. yum!

ok. 1:30.. time for bed. More tomorrow

nite all nite sam

-me

Actually… Not charging

. I've been on the road all week and really could use a recharge. I'm sitting here on the first floor of LaGuardia airport with my laptop plugged into a an outlet which has no juice in it.

Funny thing is … none of them do.

For some reason everyone is just like me and is plugged in may be the hope that sometime tonight theywill magically turn on..

Hope springs eternal !

Nite all, nite sam

-me