we woke this morning to -12F. the windows were all frosted over , but the house stayed toasty , it didn’t get above 0 all day. it was a perfect day to work on putting stuff back in my shop. I worked the whole day sorting things and moving stuff back in to the tiny space . it’s a huge job and is going to take several days more …

we did get out for a midday walk.

it felts so good

to feel so cold !

nite all, nite sam

-me

we’re hunkered down for our first cold weekend . should be -11F tonight with stiff winds . they’re warning of -35 degree windchills . I live this weather actually. we’re going to use the indoor weather to make progress on moving stuff back into my shop.

today we took advantage of the relative warmth of 16 degree F to take a quick ski in the Kenny’s field .

brrrrrrrr ! stay warm everybody !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I’m trying to make more of an effort To make less of an effort 🙂 .My whole idea of retiring was to have more free time… so I’m gonna try to get out in the woods at least three times a week. I came home early and diane and I went Please look at… It was beautiful… Quite warm considering how cold it’s going to be this weekend. 

We came across beautiful our on our walk

So beautiful!

Nice to live around so much beauty

nite all, nite sam

-me

I had a interesting adventure today. For the last 20 years I’ve had an extra office at the IBM site here in Vermont to house some of the gear I used to do science outreach in schools.… Even though I haven’t worked in Burlington since 2012… And that Ibm has sold that property to global foundries… I still have that room. Last year it was a tremendous flood in the building where that room was and my room and every other on that floor we’re covered in 4 inches of mud. You may recall that I had to move all of my stuff into a new storage space To allow for cleaning my own space. That was an opportunity to get rid of about 2/3 of the stuff that was in there.. here’s A picture of all of that http://johncohn.org/base/2021/01/14/thursday-night-muddy-memories/

Well today I had to move the stuff yet again because IBM was consolidating the few people who are still on site.… My friend ‘Dave helped me move all of that stuff up two floors to a new storage place.… Even with the reduced amount… It was a ton of stuff. Lots of great memories.

My deep thanks to Ibm and global foundries and Dave for allowing me to keep the storage place… I look forward to getting back to doing in person outreach schools as soon as Covid allows

nite all, nite sam

-me