Several first today… It was my first post lock down haircut… You may think that someone who has his little hairs I do has no need for a haircut ha ha… Think again. After 2 1/2 months of social distancing I was starting to look crazier by the day… So it was great to go in and see my good friend Deb and get my wings clipped a bit

We also got our first puppy in the garden…. Everybody I know is complementing Diane’s gardens these days… She’s had so much time to polish them. She calls it “flossing the garden “”… Because with things shut down she has time to attend to every little detail

I also had a first first meeting with my friend Doug… I’m very pleased to say we were just awarded a $40,000 grant to help promote first robotics in the state of Vermont. I was pretty surprised that we had actually gotten the grant… I wrote it back in December. This is going to let us really build capacity for First in rural parts of Vermont

Finally… I finally got some ultrasonic imaging Chelle to use with the handheld ultrasonic imagery that I’m using for a project with my brother. Can’t go into the details here… But here’s a little movie of my carotid artery beating

. Kind of cool and kind of creepy. But 100% fun that you can do it at home

It was to have been one of our first Friday outside movie nights… But we’re having some thunderstorms… So we had to scrap that so let’s just say it’s our first cancel movie night… OK that’s it for tonight. More tomorrow.



Nite all, nite sam

-me

My buddy Lao Tzu shared this with me today (bu way of my lovely wife)

Good words for a time where both strength and couage are more important than ever !

Night all, night sam

-me

Last Sunday ‘Diane and I took a great hike… I haven’t written about it now because world situation is troubled me so much… But I wanted to share the pictures we took. We decided to take a hike up Stimpson mountain to see if we could find the old airplane Beacon… My late friend Sumner Senior used to talk about this place. Nobody I know I’ve ever seen it other than him. Anyway we headed up to Little River and walked up the VAST snowmobile trail. It was a beautiful hike and a cool day

We eventually found the tower after about 40 minutes of bushwhacking around the top of the mountain. We’ve been about to give up and Diane suggested I look over it one more hill there it was. Pretty hard to mess it’s 80 feet tall… It’s in pretty good shape considering it’s probably from World War II era. It was too cold for us to go all the way to the top… But someday I’d like to. It’s amazing that something this big has been this hidden from us for almost 40 years that we’ve lived here

There’s always something new to see no matter how long you’ve been in one place

Nite all, nite sam

-me

It’s so difficult watching the country spin out of control and not knowing what to do about it .

We need a martin Luther king or Ghandi about now

Anyone out there ?

Nite all, nite sam

-me