Last Thursday we made the call to delay our ‘fire and water’ festival until
September . We decided to do that because the projected weather over this weekend was supposed to be rainy and windy through Tuesday due to a tropical storm . The weather service was predicting more than an inch of rain and 2 foot or more waves . We figured that would not be ideal for transporting or burning he pieces we made for the event . Even so … a few of us , gizzo, rebar, newt and me decided we’d camp anyway .. we wanted to go into to the teeth of the storm’
Well…
As often happens, the weather we got wasn’t the weather we expected . We paddled out the 3.5 miles from hero’s welcome on north hero .. there were a few sprinkles but mostly it was beautiful
Beautifully slow and steamy day here Jonesville. I was just under 90° super humid. Nobody could move quickly so everything kind of went slow motion. And that it was nice. ‘Diane and I got out for a quick 5 mile hike in the middle of the day… It was so hot and buggy… But it was great getting our bodies moving. On the way walked by the wootans Beautiful house up in Honey Hollow. They have this great sculpture of kids skating and they had put Covid style facemask something. Really cute and poignant
Later this evening we have been invited to a screening of a new movie about to call the Tesla. We were invited because I’m part of the advisory board of the new Tesla Science Center at Wardemclyff . The evening started out with two demonstrations one by this guy Greg L.… Who makes huge tesla coil’s…
And then a short show by the group architect… That uses dual tesla coil’s to make really cool music. One of the guys plays guitar wearing a chain mail suit. Really cool I’ve seen them at several places
The main event was a new movie called ” Tesla”… By Michael Almareyda . It’s starred Ethan Hawke and Kyle McCalahan… (The mayor on Portlandia! ) It was really interesting. The storyline kept fairly close to the normal Tesla canon .. but it played around with it in a really nice way the leading woman was playing Ann Morgan… I don’t know the name of the actress but she was great.… They kept switching times and adding elements like Edison bringing out a smart phone. That kept it light. The movie was pretty artful… A little slow at some points but I really liked it… It’ll be very interesting to see how it plays when it’s released…
OK time for sleep… Tomorrow we head out camping rain or shine I think we’re gonna be rain
Our plan was to head towards Island on Sunday with a bunch of things for a small festival. Today we learned that we’re right in the path of a tropical storm and we’re going to get somewhere between one and 2 inches of rain over there.… So we decided to delay the festival… But then several of us said what the heck let’s go camp in the rain. So the current plan is that on Sunday a few of us will paddle out to Woods Ivan and brave the storm. We’ve all been sort of quarantining for this so you might as well have fun.
We did still use the day to finish up our statue of Louis the 16th… Next week is Bastille day and we have decided to create an homage to Louis the 16th
He starting to look pretty good…
Other highlighted the date was having lunch with Diane and our friend Finn… I had the first french fry I have had since March… Yum
It’s too hot to sleep right now so I think I’m going for a swim
In 30 minutes we can mark Nichola Tesla is 164th birthday. He was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and July 10 in 1856 in Smija Croatia…
I know that because a) I’m a huge Tesla nerd… And B)… I’m helping this week with a summer camp for kids put on by the Tesla science Center in Shoreham New York.… It’s all being done remotely so I’m doing it from here. My only task is to show up a couple of times a week and Coke create with the kids who are from kindergarten through fifth grade. The topic is invention. Yesterday the kids chose to do a group project which involves creating a virtual
Rube Goldberg device which takes a penny in from the left does something amazing in the middle and squirts the penny out to the right. I did the following in honor of Tesla’s birthday. Make sure you watch all the way to the slow Mo
