We had a nice treat today… I got a package from my friend Martin in Prague. He sent me a very nice thank you gift for a talk I gave their (virtually) a few months back. And there was this really cool mug it was actually like chalkboard… Some slivowitz (My favorite plum brandy)… And some Horicke Trubicky . They are these really strange and really delicious tubular cookies that you can only get in the Czech Republic as far as I know.… My friends Miro and Piotr. Sometimes brought them to Munich for us.… You can fill them with stuff or just eat them or use them like a cigar I guess… Anyway it was a very thoughtful gift and brightened up our Tuesday. Thank you Martin! !

Nite all, nite sam !

-me

Just came back in from skiing three loops around the front field… I needed to get some fresh air today… Lots of clutter in my life right now and there’s nothing more head clearing then outside

One thing that Was wonderful to see is that our neighbors have decided to turn off the street like they were paying for…. Our neighborhood is now much darker We really appreciate that they are did this. Here’s what our neighborhood looks like now

Just like nature intended

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Diane , Kyle and I just completed a 1024 piece puzzle of our house . We had them made from Shutterfly and gave a few of them out for presents and kept one for ourselves . It’s been so fun to work on .

It’s actually a puzzle of a painting that our friend Julie (aka Maui) painted of our house in 1999 . Diane saw her sitting across from the house painting .. and we’ve been friends ever since .

We’ve been putting on loads music and working on it for about 30 min at a time . Our house has lots and lots of clapboard.. hence lots and lots of pieces that are just clapboard. Next time we paint the house we should paint a crazy pattern . It’ll make it easy to work if we make a puzzle of it !

Other than that .. what did we do today ? I started in on cleaning my lab.. it’s gonna be a big job .. so much stuff !!! It did feel Good to get started .

We also took a 6 mile hike . We started up the notch road and hiked up to the long trail on the ridge between notch and Bolton access road . There was more than a foot of snow up there .. much of it fresh tracks , we had two sleds with us which was so fun

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That’s 11 miles in the last two days thanks to the nice weather (teens and sunny )

More tomorrow!

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane got a new phone (a iPhone 12) this week . We took it with us on our hike today. We hiked 5 miles back from Bolton Mitch road to our home via the old long trail . Here are some of the pics. I want to see how the camera compares

I’ll take a look online

Nite all, nite sam

-me