שנה טובה ! Happy new year friends It’s new years eve  by the Jewish way of keeping time. By the Old Testaments calculations tomorrow begins year 5,775. Its a funny sort of new year.. no parties, no funny hats.. just contemplation. Its a time to think about the past year successes and failures..a nd prepare for the coming year. the idea is to get yourself written into ‘the book of life’.. I hope its a sweet new year for all of you..

 

this last one has been good..

We lead the year out with a  really nice day today.. beginning with brunch at our freinds george and jane who’ve recently moved to vergennes..

 

after brunch, we took an explore around george and janes new neighborhood. despite driving through vergeense many hundreds of times in the last 34 years, I’ve never really explored it like we didi today

 

on the way home, diane and I stopped at the new Stone corral pbrewery in our home town.. we sampled 4 of their 8 beers. They were excellent !

we finished the day in a great way to close out the year. we each went through all of our clothes… we are trying to declutter our house and our lives..\

 

in the end, we have 18 (!!!) bags of clothes in good condition to donate tomorrow. thats a greta way to start a year

 

Shana Tova everyone !

nite all, nite  sam

-me