I had a very lonnnnng day. I Was on the phone from 8 am until 8pm without a break.

Before that my day started with a walk to the river . Chai was happy to cool off with the two ducks flippy and flappy nearby

The end of my day was a quickly assembled soy hot dog burrito ..

It just sort of spoke to me

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I was originally planning on being still camping today, but we all decided to keep our paired back hogisland camp out to just 3 days . It was wonderful.. didn’t need it any longer

That meant that I had a pretty clear calendar the day. Nice. Gave me lots of time for catching up for being out for a couple of days .

Around 7pm dian, Kyle and I went out and climbed Bolton.. it’s getting to be a weekly ritual.

We weren’t to only ones today there were quite a few folks out on the trail and at the top. It was kind of festive o a socially distanced sort of way

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Work today and Wood’s island… What a beautiful spot. It was a little cooler and overcast… I went for a run around the island again. We had an amazing breakfast of all the uneaten food… Macaroni and cheese for breakfast is pretty special. The other guys made spam and eggs… No thanks. We were pretty careful about eating our own food and not sharing for Covid reasons

Or one bit of mischief this morning was we made a slingshot to see how far we could chuck rocks… And eventually flaming potatoes

Then it was time to pack up… We’ve gotten a ride out with some of our gear on Chuck’s boat. This time we were on our own. We had a little more stuff than we had room to put so it was quite an interesting packing problem to get it all on two kayaks and two canoes

We were all laid down pretty heavily… Especially the canoes. It’s normally an hour and a half crossing took us three for the 3 1/2 miles. We had a stiff wind with 1 to 2 foot swells… And occasional 4 foot… We all stayed out of the water though… Which isn’t always the case on these trips.

We were very happy when we pulled into heros welcome.

John and aaron were pretty beat from all the weight they were carrying. We divided up the gear and split up. It had been a very good trip

I was in North hero and realized that I was only a few miles from Camp Abnaki… the camp we’re all three boys went. We have such great memories from there. We still provide a scholarship at that camp in Sam’s honor .

I drove into the camp… And there was absolutely no one there. This would be their busiest season… It was definitely pretty eerie. I walked around and remembered some of our parent weekends there… Put a few Sam stones around and headed out. It was a really nice pilgrimage

I got home in time to catch half of one of Diane’s yoga classes… I think I fell asleep the moment I lay down.

I put away my gear… Wash myself off… And had a wonderful dinner with Diane.

It’s so nice to be home. It’s also a little cooler tonight. Actually under 70°. Can’t wait to crawl into bed

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Really wonderful slow day on woods island .. i also note it’s our wonderful dog chaos 16 and 3/4 birthday. We love you chai baby

… If there was a theme today it is snakes. Started out with me seeing a big snake and then finding a snake skin in the adjacent camp and then we found another big snake… Kind of cool for an island

Nite all, nite sam

-me