stayed up till 3:30 working last night.. so started off the day pretty grumpy. Trying to get some stuff going for work and making slow steady progress… didn’t notice the time..

 

9:30 came pretty early.. but managed to get up anyway.  Gave cane by with friends george and noah.. they had a weird plan for putting on wet suits and jumping off things into cold water..

 

soundsed. funnish..

 

by 10ish diane, deb and the dogs and I were heading towards little river.. was pretty preoccupied by work.. but once there.. the beauty of fall took over.. we did about 4 miles up in the old rocker mountain settlment. Deb had never been. it was fiun showing her some of the old cellar holes, cemeteries etc.

we even saw some new stuff.. like an old silo be we’d never seen

 

the sawmill was our first stop.. so amazing to think that 300 folks worked here less than 100 years ago.. it’s pretty remote now 

 

there was a cool new geocasching thing in the old boiler. we put a smstone in there

 

this school was working until 1921.. now its just a rock celler hole

 

heres the old well.. dropped another samstone down.. i put one here every year

 

here’s the silo base.. i’d never seen that

 

phebe.. 100 years old.. wow !

 

spent the rest of the day (and night working) .. getting a little burned out..

thank goodness for getting outside !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Beautiful day.. and a medium long hike in bolton valley.. it’s definitely peak foliage this weekend.

so very  grateful to live in a place  like this !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

I almost forgot to blog last night

Almost

Nite all,nite Sam

-me

I was so happy… I got to go out on a school night tonight. I had a ton of work but managed to break free so that Diane, Jen, Tim and Debra and I went down to Contois auditorium to see Natalie Jeremijenko speak. The generator sponsored it as the first of our “big makers” series. I was really proud to be part of the generator board when I looked and saw how packed the room was. It is completely sold out.

The talk itself was interesting… Natalie covered so many topics in her talk that my brain got full. There are some really cool ideas in there like growing plants on the side buildings or building floating light up fish detectors… Or zip lines with strap on wings or instrumented rhinoceros Beatles

Afterwards Jen Tim and I Dianne and I went to the whiskey room… I really Felt like I was playing hooky… It was fun hanging out on a weekday with friends and family… Time for bed

Night all, night sam

-me