The day was mercifully cooler . The smoke cleared a bit . We all lazed around and ate and drank all day.. after running 5 miles so i didn’t feel that guilty

Work is still popping up in my thoughts too much so I definitely need to run longer tomorrow

Nice to be here with family and friends

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

ok more tomorrow.

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

I fell asleep last night without blogging. I have hardly ever done that.

Greetings from whitefish Montana. Diane and i are out here for a family reunion. Gabe and max both will show up on Tuesday . My mom, my sister and her family and my brother and his family are all here. As a cool Su Rowe also have our good friend Nate and his climbing buddy Jacon

The house is three stories tall and right on a small lake called whitefish lake

Here are some views from here

Billy rented a power boat

hmmm. Trying a new app and having trouble editing the text

Ill try from another app

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Went crazye yesterday takign pictures of all the flowers in the garden.. then realized no one wants ot look at pictures of normal flowers.. So .. here are not flowers from Diane’s garden for your enjoyment 

nice to look at the world differently sometimes.. no ? 

nite  all, nite  sam

-me

A couple of days ago Diane was listening  to ‘On Point’  on NPR. They were interviewing the author of a new book called Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart . I haven’t heard the  interview yet.. but she talked about my brother Billy and his close colleague Bud Frazer and the work they’re doign on developing a new artificial heart.   

You can catch the episode here http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/08/08/ticker-artificial-heart-mimi-swartz

Diane then went to Audible and bought the audio book. She’s already 6 hours in to the 9 hour book. We listend to chapter 12 together.. and its ALL ABOUT BILLY !!!!!.. We haven’t gotten fuirther.. but I know he’s gonna come back in big time in the final chapters. 

I just bought the book on Amazon Kindle.

Just starting it now..I know the story by heart (lol) ..  but  its so fun and surreal to be reading this. You have to check it out !!!

so proud of Billy !.. What an amazing contribution to the world !

nite all,  nite sam

-me