Today would have been my Dad’s 87th birthday.. I spent the day thinking about him.. I can still hear his voice in my head.. 

I miss his advice and goofy folky wisdom.

I love you Pa

nite all, nite sam

-mc

Wonderful to work at home today.. perfect summer weather.. fund to walk aroudn and check out what wonders diane has coaxed from the earth.. 

including this guy !

late afternoon I headed to gnerator for a members meeting. a rare treat for me to be in town for one. I ran in to my good friend Jon.. Check out his shirt.. !   he didn’t even knwo I was ging to be there tonight.. > He made one for shirt me to (it says ‘i’m not Jon Bondi’).   and he’s been tryign to surprise me with it for a good 2 months.. I just haven’t been in one place long enough to meet up..

he’s such an amazing person.. !. and we do sorta look alike ! people are always confusing us for one another !

the meeting was great.. lots of good ideas floatign around. it felt good to be with these creative folks.. 

lots of cool new tools appearing. Kyle told us that the CNC plasma cutter is up and ready fpr use !.. and we discussed gettign a forge for metal casting !

even outsdide there were signs of brilliance.. like Steve’s car 

or Jakes spirograph (with doug thrown in to show scale) 

and Lucy’s cray science bus !

such a great grpup of creative folks !

ok.. tiem for sleep.. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

First real free day home in several weeks… and we made the most of it. We ran libbys lookout with the dogs.. then dropped them here and went to Hunger Mountain. I don’t think I’v e ever climbed it.. but it’s a recent favorite of dianes.. .. it’s only a  2.1 climb but it has some  some steep boldering… .. a beutiful day to be outside.. 

FIr

it was pretty cold at the top.. so we didn’t stay too long.. here’s the view over towards the east and new hampshire.. 

and here’s the view back towards us. Yo can see waterbury reservoir in the center right. 

got home and jumped in the pool. I think our thermometer is broken.. so i accidently heated it to about 85 degrees.. not bad !

I was back in the shop owrkign on the cooler for burning many when diane called me out to see soemthing rare.. a hummingbird moth !

it’s an insect that looks, flies and eats exactly like a hummingbird.. nature is wonderful !

 i may have only had a one day weekend.. but it was a really nice one 🙂 

ok.. back to work tomorrow..

-nte all, nite sam

-me

At IAD again on my way home.. my flight’s been delayed about 2 hours.. which is about par for Dulles.. not sure what it is with me and this airport… I will say yhat I do like flying United.. I do this trip so often that I know know quite a few of the  flight attendants and they always take good care of me. One of my favorites made a point of  coming to find me when she saw my name on the manifest.. and asked me how long I’d be in Vermont this time…    It’salways nice to have freinds when you travel

One nice thign about this unexpected layover is that i foudn the Turkish Air lounge.. and they have all you can eat hummus and babaganoush.. Yum !

OK.. time to go find this plane.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me