Monday night – Walking the dogs

And event full day today. Early today Gabe and sam picked up sam’s roommate Lyndsey At the airport… Came back and I made a big breakfast

I max to go for a hike with Nate and the rest of us went to do the history hike at Little River. It was great leaves at both hikes

We love the history hike… It talks about a lost community of people living in the hills near Little River… The community disappeared when the valley was flooded for the flood control dam in 1938.

From there we went to pick apples in Waterbury in Center… It was such a beautiful setting near Mount hunger

From there we came back to the house… We decided do use the opportunity that the four of us were together to spread both the dogs ashes. It’s been a year since Chai died at 17. Satori died earlier last year in August at age 13 . We miss them both so much every day… But it was time to let them go. We took their ashes and walked to the “barlow beach” that they both loved so much. OK calculated the chai must’ve made that walk about 4200 times… Satori maybe 3000

We unscrewed the wooden boxes and held her ashes and we took turns three in handfuls of the remains into a Huntington and Winooski Rivers That they both loved

It was a tearful goodbye for all of us… But we know the girls would’ve love that. We kept it a little bit of the ash both of them and spread them in the yard.

It’s OK to take them on that one last walk

nite all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – even numbers

Interesting and slow day…

gave and dumber headed out early to hike mansfield with summers dog toro

we headed up to coffee with the kenney’s… We’re spending as much time as we can with them right now… It was very nice hanging out with them… 

Got in the car and noticed that the odometer on the Honda was a large even number

I noticed another even number… So I missed the picture. On the way home I saw that the 300,000 person had read my retirement letter on LinkedIn… That’s pretty amazing 

Got home and Gabe was back in macbook now… I thought about that… And even number of kids… Didn’t feel quite right and then I noticed the picture of Sam between them

Not much else happening today… We Harvested what was left of our cannabis plants… Someone stole them out of our yard last Thursday which was pretty crazy… We still had a pretty good yield … We’re giving it away to friends but we were hoping They have more to give away… It’s become the new zucchini now but it’s legal here

About 6 o’clock Gabe picked up his girlfriend Sam brought her home… We’re having a nice evening of dinner and pool and a fire in the fireplace…

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Feels good

nite all, nite sam

-me

Saturday night – vermont day

everyone woke late .. we had a big breakfast and everyone went their own directions . max to see josh, gabe to see tom and gabe dropped diane and me off on notch road on jos way.

we hiked back 5 miles to our house

now sitting around with mason, abbot , rj, and kyle . super nice !

nite all, nite sam

-me

friday night – max and gabe

my first vacation day of retirement and what better way to mark it than to have max and have come in to town .diane and i picked them up at the airport

we took a quick stop at beta then headed down town for a picnic in burlington.

later we hiked bolton to see the colors

finished the day with takeout sushi

what a great day !

note all, nite sam

-me