it was a busy and varied day.. .. started with flyingin in over a beutiful fall day.. after a good sleep on a flight from Ca.

Lateafternoon I headed down to Shelbourne and stopped in to see Deb at her new shop . We’re so proud of her !

delicious shortbread everywhere

here’s her new chocolate enrober.. she even let me put stuff throguh it and eat it !

freomthere I headed to the Vase meeting at 6PM.. it was time for us to give out thousands of dollars in sceince equipment grant  

thenback to watch the debate with Diane

Just finished watching the presidential debates..   now listening to the commentators argue over it..

I feel i need to take a shower….

nite all, nite sam

-me

Long day here in SF..good and eye opening meetings. Now I have a long red eye in a middle seat to look forward to.. ugh.

Had a great chineese dinner tonight with my friend Dima.. We had some spice noodles that made my mounth completely numb I asked him about it ..(Dima’s wife is chineese). I learned that it’s made with sechuan peppper.. or as it is also called.. numbing pepper.. .. How cool is that.. food that makes your mouth numb !  You learn soemthign interesting every day !

nite ll,nite sam

-me

Hello from San Francisco… Out here quick one day trip. It’s funny with all the travel I’ve been doing California doesn’t even feel like travel. Had a really good day. Got lots done on the plane had to nice people on either side of me.

had a couple of very good meetings here in the city… Now I can’t keep my eyes open… Got to go to sleep

 California dreaming !

Night, night Sam

– Me 

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Diane and I are deteremined to soak up as much of this butiful fall as we can. Today we took the dogs on a trip to see if we could find an easier way up tot he beaver ponds on theslope of camels hump. Diane foudn the traill .. and it was an itnerestign walk up.. seetp.. leafy logging road.. deep in the woods. the whole trail soemone or soemthing had dragged something small and heavy. it was such a muystery.. until we came on our neighbors.. and the moose they’d killed earlier this morning as part of Vermonts short Moose hunting season.  They have the hunt every year to cull the population.

These guys were up at 7:30.. and lured this moose out with a call.. . They broaght their beutiful work horse up to bring the moose carcass down the mile long steep trail.   .   The path we’d followed was their horse dragging its chain up to the kill

It was both amazing and hard to watch as the giant horse dragged the dead moose down the trail 

We were happy for the hunters.. sad for the moose..

we stood for a moment to let the sight sink in.. and then climbed on to the beaver ponds..

such a beutiful sight.. probably where the moose hung out most of the time.

the walk down was even prettier .. you can see the trail scraped by the moose carcass and the horse.

we got down the hill just as our neighbors finished loading their kill . THey were pretty excited.. 

we waited a bit to let them get down.. then walked down the road to our car. 

then back home..    where we stil have a few flowers even after the killign frost we just had.

goning to sleep now. more tomorrow

nite all,nite sam

-me