Today was Rosh Hashanah… The start of the Jewish new year In one of the most holy days in our religion… We celebrated by getting on a plane at 8 o’clock in the morning (left home at 4:30 in the morning)… And flew home to Vermont. That puts you in a pretty contemplative mood. Seriously Rosh Hashanah isn’t something I take pretty seriously because I consider the previous year in the next year… And this is he here with big changes after a year of big changes after a year of big changes… Enough to make one extremely contemplative.

The flight back was uneventful and it was so wonderful to be back home

We mark the day by taking a nice long 7 mile hike up in Honey Hollow. You can already see the signs of fall

We end of the day with apples and honey for A sweet new year.

I hope it’s a sweet new year for all of us

שנה טובה ya’ll

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Once again I’ve been slow to catch up on my blog… It’s a funny time to be getting lax on my blogging because so much is happening in our lives…

Anyway back to last Sunday. It was the day after mom and Billy’s birthday celebration… And we were all happy and tired… It was a slow day. Which was really nice. After a short run, ‘Diane and I met Max and Becky, Gabe and Sam And Becky’s parents George (a.k.a. uncle Becky) and Doreen. It was nice to have that time to meet Becky’s parents. I’ve known George from burning man and if we lived closer together we would be inseparable… He is a retired high energy physicist who likes making huge impractical technical art… He’s also an endurance athlete…What’s not to like? I’ve never met Doreen before but it was great to get to know her. She is a satellite scientist that does weather and pollution monitoring from space. It’s really easy to see where Becky gets her brains and energy when you meet her parents!



We took ‘George and Doreen over to meet my mom and some of the cousins which was fun

When they got into the elevator I took this picture and it reminded me of the last time I saw George which was with GabÉ in an elevator at about 3:30 in the morning right after Bernie man. George Driven S back to Reno to get flames… I remember I got on a 20 hour flight to go have dinner with the Prime Minister of Slovenia… I was still covered with Playa dust 🙂

Later in the day we all went out to the sculpture garden at the Walker Museum… It was so fun and beautiful…

We stop for ice cream on the way home and then went to a “fun” place called the punch bowl for dinner… It was all about bowling and darts and other things I don’t really like… But it was fun being out

It was the end of a great family weekend… So glad we all got together

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Yesterday was the big birthday bash for my mom and my brother.. im gonna post alot of pictures.. so please bear with me 🙂

Diane and i started the day with a work out and a run, then A bunch us started the day with a sunny walk over to the mill city farmers market

We all then converged on crosby farms marina for a boat ride wed booked on the magnolia blossom.. it was soooooo. Fun.. beautiful day and beautiful scenery.. a n open bar and tons of food wed brought with us. The boat was made to carry 110 people and there were just us 17 on their.. along with captain dan and the bartender.. 90 minutes of hanging out, eating, birdwatching (eagle, blue heron !)@ and relaxing

shaun braught a bunch of goofy special glasses which was super fun

Diane reminded us to take some group photos.. the bartender helped us !

Great cruise. Totally recommend captain dan and magnolia blossom cruises !

On the way home we stopped by lne of my favorite surplus places.. its called a axeman.. mostly looked around. Last time I left with a big bag of stuff. This time only two chips.. still a fin and crazy place to explore

The rest of the afternoon ‘we’ spent shopping for and preparing for tonights bash.i say ‘we’ because I slept through abunch of it..

Dinner started around 8.. in the party room in moms building mary and john brought th sushi…

The center of the night was watching ton of old pictures from our google photos

Then came cake and presents..max made my mom a very cool tree of life out of think steel, gabe made a hand polished stone birdbath..she got lots of lvoe and stuff..including a nex iphone..

We ended late with an hour or so of clean up.. then a dip8; the hot tub

FULL day..lots of love

HAPPY birthday mom and billy ! We love you both !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Today the rest of the family all came in from different parts of the country . First our Bruce betsy fro Austin, then Gabe and Sammantha from Portland, finally billy, Shaun, billy the kid and Christopher. By the end of the night we had 17 people . We started the day with a quick visit to our close friends jeff and karen whom we’ve known for 37 years

The. We took a quick trip to the bakken museum.. which was sort of cool

For dinner mary and john got. Tom of yummy Chinese food and we went down to the party room in my moms beautiful building . It was quite a party by that. Point .

We all went swimming while we waited for my brother and his family

. We got to bed by about 2am 🙂

Nite all, nite sam

-me