insanely busy day.. and still hot.. I feel like i’m thinking at half speed..
revived by a short hike to the river with DIane and the dogs tonight. we saw 2 beautiful heron’s .. here’s one of them. hope oyu can see
about 50 meters from our house.
reminds me how magic this place is..
note all. nite sam
-me
this has been the least 4th-y fourth of july i’ve ever spent in this country.. we did none of our normal traditions.. no parade, no wander round the park and no fireworks.. We were too busy cleaning our @#%^#*$@ attic and finishing our yard sale.. in the longest and hottest heat wave I can ever rememebr here.
day started with me taking Gabe to the airport for his trip to equador.. he’s so excited !
hh foudn the travel antibiotics !
then headed home, but not fast enough to get through before they blocked the road for the parade.. I went around..
which meant 12.5 extra miles..
got home and started in on the yard sale.. todaty was the last day.. we got rid of SO many things.. including books.. I love books.. but I dont need ot keep he ones I’ve already read.. it braught back grat memories of all these great reds
lots of freinds driopped by.. here’s claire
found some cool stuff.. liek a chekc from our wonderful lage frirend and roomate ryan
our friend Henry, milan and their son harry dropped by.. we enjoyed hanging out with them
henry bruaght his cool drone !
I had him fil the house with me in the tower.. gave me a good view of the yard sale below
luke and emily stopped by \
luke has sams inittials inked on his ankle
JOhn carter came by and .. he’s carols brother and wet to school in our house in the 60’s ..
her’es where his desk was.
ok. thstsd it for this forth..
back to work tomorrow
I love my country.. but not its leadership
note all. note sam
-me
long hot day today.. I have to admit, the heat is draining me.. I can barely think. the air is heavy and still.. it’s work to even breath
midday wen took a break to talk to carol who’s visiting form Tennessee.. who used to go to school in our house
We invited our neighbor Bob to compare notes. it was so great hearing them trade memories.
we all took a tour of the house.. whch is a mess due to our attic cleaning
gere are our freins in the tower. the were two yeas aoart goign to school in the house. .. it was back in the ealy 50’s I think
carol played amazing grace on a wooden flute I just happened to have
late today we walked the dogs to the river.. we sat there for 45 min while the dogs swam.. we were watching this wonderfuo familyt of ducks
ok.. I’m sleeping in AC tonight.. hoep to get soem quality sleep
nite all, nite sam
-me
Another brutally hot day. 96 degrees at one point.. and humid !
the temp reahced 90 degrees inside the house !
got a midday break when I went to a lunch that Miro Weinberg, the mayor of Burlington had hosted
of entrepreneurs from Africa from a program is called YALI.. there were 25 really cool, creatives who were spending 6 weeks in the us based at Dartmouth. we had a great Ethiopian lunch in the delightfully air-conditioned Contois auditorium. We had an hour or so to get to know one another. what an impressive bunch.. there were filmmakers, weavers, digital marketing folks.. I really loved getting to know them
lunch was amazing,.. we ate everything uing delicious tear off ethiopian Injera bread 
this guy had a shoe brand he was developing. he designed these
got home and worked the rest of the day in my tiny office space huddled over the air conditioner..
aroudn 6 I took the dogs out to the river.. it felt like a steamy equatorial jungle out there !
we all had to go in the river.
our garage sale was still goign on.. freind Kira tried on the bald scientist wig.. what do you thinK ? Can you tell who’s who ?
we foudn soem more treasures.. liek ‘Mr Scone’ from 1985
and this shadow gram I made of a bullet goign theourn a stream of water.. note the shadow of the shock wave in front of the bullet.
ok. thats it for now.. tryign to sleep in the ac again..
nite all, nite sam
-me