Greetings from Munich.. My 45th trip !

I got here this morning amidst rumors of an air workers strike, 

I didn’t know what to expect.  

Here’s what happened

very glad that I wasn’t flying anywhere else !

 

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

on a flight back to Munich   ..s and fell asleep sa I typed. 

AI ran into my old friend Liz as I waited to board the plane from Burlington. 

I ewas nt he phoen and distracted.. but I could immediately tell soemthing was wrong..

I got off my call and went over to talk to Liz.. SH  told me hr husband DOug had died last fall. I hadn’t heard. I didn’t know doug well. but liz and he kids have been friends of ours for a long time. Her son Jeff was a good friend of Sam’s and played with Skanky Green at Sam’s memorial . 

I was able to change saats and sit with Liz for the flight down to DC> it was really good catching 

up. we talked about love and loss and change and kids and dogs..   At DC we both had to run together to barely catch our planes. I was so glad to see her.. 

 

ok.. gotta go back to sleep.. 

 

ahh soem pics from this mornings run.. when will spring come ? 

nite all , nite ssm

-me

 

Spent the day home with the dogs. It was nice, peaceful and a bit lonely.

Diane was off with freinds who took her on a post birthday surprise day. She had a great time. 

 

Are 11:30 I headed in to town because i’d heard that our old friend Barb was going to be co-leading the service at the Congo.. 

Babr was there with her Daughter and two of her grand children.. none of whom’s names I can spell. (makeeda, arcana)  but are good old friends. 

Barbara has a special place in our heart. Hse lead Sam’s memorial service. It was very good to see them all 

 

 

 

Late afternoon I took the girls our for a romp in the woods. THe snow and ice is still pretty deep out there. I was glad to be 

wearing crampons’ 

 

areound 8 I headed over to my cousin-in-law Billys to meet up with him and our mutual cuusins Bill, Erin. Sam and Cora.  who are in town college looking . 

It was great seeing them !

 

 

 

Billy and I even got a few miuntes to tes a motor out. We’re building a small exhibit for Echo. (at least we think we are) 

 

Bill and Deb’s house is like a museum of geekiness. ,, like this giant slide rule 

bills very nice machien shop 

his weird mechanical clock (uses a ball rolling as a regulator) 

 

and his two player pianos

Full day. .now time for sleep

nite all, nio=te sam

-me

 

Beutiful quite day at home. Lots of small , important things accomplished. DIane found her sun glasses, I caught up on email, we took a good hike in the woods.. and we cleaned out our refrigerators. Our ‘backup’ fridge burned out.. leaving us with the daunting task of moving everything into one.. We we re forced to clean out both fridges.. .. and you know what we found.. most of everything in there was condiments.. . We had SO many types of hot sauces, relishes,marinades, seasonings, dips and dressings that there was no room for food !

 

it was a great lesson in letting go.. as poured out the last 1/4 inch of 20 jars of random hot suaces.. some made befre the advent of electricity.. I thanked each and reflected on where I’d gotten the bootle, who’d given it to me.. and what we’d eaten it on. It was emotionally cathartic.. 

I will say this.. if any animal  gets into our garbage tonight. they are goign to seriously regret it 🙂 

 

Speakign of hotsauces.. we met our friends  Jim and Sue at Aquave in WIlliston.. t was so good hanging out with them. Their son.. and our really close friend Dylan died 7 years ago tonight. He was a very close frind of Sam and Gabes../ He is still very much part of our lives

We spent the dinner talking about all of our kids.. it was really good 

 

speaking of kids.. our good friend Luke was running the bar there tonight. good seeing him as well

one last cool thing. We woke this morning around 5 with a dog with a digestive problem (don’t ask) . 

I walked out side and was treated to a beutiful site of the moon with mars and saturn nearby..  the picutere here doesn’t capture the magic of it..   Our heavens are pretty magical places

 

 

nite all. nite sam

-me