Today we said goodbye to our good friend Puckett. He died December 8th on his own terms. Yesterday his Mother Jody brought his ahes back up to Vermont to spread them on Bolton Mountain.
We met this morning at 9L30 in a cold drizzle.. then waled up to the top of Timberline . Puckett loved that mountain..
here’s Pucketts Grandmother Jill.. we walked up together. 
Jody transferred soem ofPuckett’s ashess to a container for spreading..
we took turns tossing the ashes out on the wet ground..
Brad had Puckett’s ipd… so we listened to some of his music.. mostly death metal.. it sounded sweet and right to be listening to that stuff under the circumstances..
i put a samstoen on some of puckers ashes.. they were such good friends.. it made me hope that in soemwierd alliterative universe they were off playing guitar together…
then we started down the hill
a little more than an hour later we gathered at the Richmond library..
there were about 75 folks there.. lots of buckets friends. Here’s nick. jeff and urion from Pucketts band Black Night Vengeance.. Sam played in that band before he died..
we watched a great slide show that Pucketts sister Miranda put together.. there wasn’t a dry eye in the place when that was playing.. it was so good seeing all those pictures of Puckett.. he was so fun and talented…. 
people got up and told Puckett stories.. here’s Lee telling some fun ones. . 
for more than an hour folks got up and said how much Puckett had meant to them.. there were soemveutifull stories.. soemhard ones too..
Afterwards folks stood around and share stores and connected.. which uis what we all needed do .
by about four o’clock.. folks had shared and told stories.. and were ready to say goodbye..
a short while later the place was empty..
it was a hard day..I think everyone had a chance to say good bye .. and to reconnect..
it was what we all need to do..
Puckett…we’re all really going to miss you man.. you were one of a kind..
we
l keep you inner thoughts…
nite all.nite sam
-me