Fun highlight of today was going to see our roommate Elliott Oil serum where he works… Just a quarter-mile down the road. He worked side-by-side with our neighbor Mike to tap over 7000 trees. They have a brand new high-tech reverse osmosis set up. It is really amazing to see

here’s the sap as it comes in from the trees

Hear her the powerful vacuum pumps that pull the sap through the lines

I sat comes in looking light green crystal

The low side of the RO system… Is it deionized water and it looks like blue crystal

Here’s Eliot with his very valuable take so far…

Here are the concentrate tanks… Just sitting right above the boiler

Here’s looking down into the boiling pan

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Checking the specific gravity of the syrup that’s pouring out

Super fun to watch Elliot and the teamwork. So cool this is happening just behind our house.

We got the girls out for a few hikes today. Just see in the last of the snow

A hot bath and several technical papers await… Got to go now.

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Nice peaceful day today. I managed to get eight hours of sleep… When I woke in the morning most of the snow from last night was already gone. Around noon we started the hour drive up to the Canadian border to see our friends Lucie and Victor. They live in the town of Richford and their backyard is literally the Canadian border. You can walk across it… But you probably be spotted by one of the drones that fly over occasionally.

They still had heavy snow up there… Our mutual friend Becket was in town. She’s a Unitarian minister who lives in Kingston Ontario. We hadn’t seen her in quite a while. It was so great catching up. We had a nice lazy time eating, talking, and (at least for me) napping 🙂

Really great to see old friends.

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

It’s 11 PM and I just got home. Had a late afternoon meeting in Boston which meant traveling through traffic. I don’t generally mind the drive… I’ve listen to a whole lot of music

Today was fun and interesting. What is the second day of our new boss Sriram’s visit to Cambridge. He’s a really nice and super Great guy. It was fun showing him all the stuff we’re working on

Here we are all last night at dinner

Glad to be home!

Night all, nite Sam

– me

I just got another birthday card. this just came in from our good freinds Karen and Jeff. I think it’s karen drawing. Isn’t this amazing ?

It’s nice having such talented friends !

nite all, nite sam
-me