Quiet night. Diane is out of town .. and I’m just back from a visit to the Generator and a great dinner with friend Matt.   Missing Diane..a nd enjoying a little quiet..

I have a 2 inch stack of papers to read.. heading for the bathtub.. hoping to stay awake lon enough not to drop all the papers in the tub

night all, night sam

-me

Woke today to the first real snow of the season.. the ground was covered for a bit.. .. The snow sparred with the sun all day alternately covering and melting.. it was pretty cool.. .

We Took our friend Sho on a long walk up at Little river.. One of our favorite walks.. We were surprised to see the only building there now boarded up..

Guess it had to happen.. the floors were pretty shaky last time we were there.. 

we showed Sho some of the old cemetarys

and the cool scrap that people find in the woods. It’s still amazing to think that there were about 300 folks living up here as recently at 1920.. now it feels so remote !.. It was all cleared land then.. now it’s forest again. Triumph of nature over man ?

there are so many seller holes.. and the signs of life.. here’s a silo foundation from one of the old farms.

tree huggers !

now sitting down to survey the week..hopign to find some space to think..

-nite all, nite sam

-me

Calm after the storm…

We had a very slow and peaceful day.. did almost nothing.. which was about all I felt like doing. our friend Sho is here visiting from NYC.. which is really fun.

We had a lat start today.. as we were hanging out this morning, we saw emergency lights flashing outside.. but no sirens. We went out to see a long line of firetrucks, ambulances and place cars in a slow tribute processions for our town fire Chief Tom Levesque who died recently. He was a great guy.. most of my interactions with him were around fireworks ..  .. he was always helpful and friendly.. and served this town so well.

our only venture out today was to bens for some apple picking.. and talk about the signs we’re making for the Bernie campaign. It was really nice hanging out and picking those beautiful apples.. they were so tasty.. the air was wet and cold.. ..

and just as we headed inside, it started SNOWING !!!

we drove home the long way to show Sho more of the town.. we went by Lake Iroquois  where we used to take the kids swimming

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then we drove down to lake sunset where i lived in 1981 .. Here’s my old house !

we got home around 5.. and haven’t done a thing since..

just what i needed !

night all, night sam

-me

I’m sitting in JFK waiting on my flight back to BVermont.. I just finished an important work meeting that was about 6 weeks in the making. At the last minute some of our execs got called away, so it was quite a different meeting than we’d peeped for.. but that aside.. The meeting went well.. very well intact.. or demos work, the conversation was good and the client execs were  really interesting and engaging..

I’m left with hat strange feeling I always have.. I’m technically energized by what I learned.. happy with the outcome, relieved that the 4 weeks of stressing about this is over.. At the same time I can’t help wondering about how I might prep for things like this without stressing my , family,  health, friends, hobbies, coworkers.. etc..  next time.

I gotta think that out..

nite all, nite sam

-me