Ended the work day today with a great member meeting at Gnerator. We had neary 2 folks and some good food WIde ranging conversation. where we welcomed our new shop foreman Eliot.
they still had this crazy poster of me in the lab
the more I hang around generator, the happier I am..
note all. nite sam
-me
This morning I met with my friends Matt and Lyn to finish up our prototype for the S-port.. Matt’s and his wife Juietta’s son Storm was diagnosed with Leukemia last July.
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/05/18/stormstrong-how-cvu-baseball-player-storm-rushford-battled-leukemia/613841002/
Storm’s working through the tough treatments and is feeling strong enough to play baseball for CVU highschool. One of the challenges is that Storm has a chemo port implanted on his chest that needs protecting when he plays. . Lyn.. who’s an amazing seamstress and I have designed a protection device to protect the port while he pitches , runs, etc. We call it the S-port (get it ? ).. I made a diamond shaped polycaprolactone. (a polyester) shield that I molded and drilled to fit a flexible hip impact protector for snow boarders that Matt and Julietta got at Burton . Lyn who used to work at Jogbra created a lycra belt and strapping device to hold the pad and sheld against Storms body.
for fun .. I also created an Ironman-like back light he can wear under it when he’s not playing. 
here’s Matt tryign the thing on before we added the shield 
here’s the complete S-port 
Storms trying it today. will eb interested ot hear how it works.
the rest of the day was aroudn prepping for our upcoming trip to Oregon.
Gabe made this amazing Ditch baby to help us build our strength
late afternoon diane. gabe the dogs and I did a loop up in honey hollow.. enying the amazing but too dry weather. 
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ok. Thats all for today. more tomorrow
nite all. nite sam
-me
Gbe turned 23 today.. He’s such a wonderful person.. I’m so proud to be his papa !
Gabe was camping on burton island with Raya and her fam.. so Diane and I woke early and canoed out to see him
the crossing to their camsitre on Burton island was only about 20 minutes … the water was nice and smooth on the way out. 
there’s the birthday boy !
gabe , raya and M were up..
Kack , wendy and the 4 dogs were just coming back from a walk
they’d made a cobbler in the dutch oven.. almost done !
raya, gabe, diane and I headed in to check out the small store on the island.
make that ‘the only coffee on the island… THe island is tiny .. about a dozen camsites, one store, no cars.. beutiful
we got back to camp just in time to try the cobbler
meanwhile M had found this awesome snake !
He also foudn a complete snakeskin !
lazy dogs we tred to get them to swim.. but no luck
we all went for a walk to the southern tip of the island.. abeutiful trail through the woods. 
there weres soem cool rocky beaches along the south part of the island
there were even soem benches.. .. just no people !
we walked back on a differnt trail ad headed bac to camp for lunch.
jack cooked the buns
we had a full spread with biabatta and lox, cream cheese, onions, tomatoes and capers.. yum !
whiel gab e wasnt lookign we got out his cakes and put the candles in
here comes gabe !
gabes favorite chocolate mouse cake !
here’s M shows us that you actually can put 4.5 beers worth of beer in a regulation frisbee !
around 3 diane and I headed out tin the canoe. the wind had kicked up.. and it was a pretty rough crossing. we almost capsized one .. but made it to shore safely . ..
gave raya diane and I met up at our house around 5. aroudn 7 we went out for birthday beer and dinner.. first stop was Von Trap brewery.
a few small presents to mark the day
then t Piecassos in Stowe for pizza
dinner was great..
and our friend the toad was there waiting for us when we got home !
great dinner, great day..
great kid !
Happy birthday my son !
nite all. nte sam
-me
My day was super busy until the late afternoon. We used my on free time at 6:30 this morning to take the dogs on a run. The Dame Rockets or Phlax are out and its so beautiful
late afternoon my buddy ben called.. they were heading out on the boat.. .. I couldn’t resist. it was such a beautiful
day. sunny , cool and light wind. Met up with Ben, Newt and Michael at the Burlington doc.. and we were out in only a few minutes.
looking back towards houston.
nite all, nite sam
-me