Even though I’m supposedly retired… I do get stressed when I’m away from work for too long… I could not wait to get back to Beto… I have some demos going there and I really need to get some of them out on the floor for people to look at. It was great being back and seeing the team… One of the best things as I now have a place to work on the projects and a place to sit… Doesn’t sound like much but I have an actually had a desk in the last five years of working so it’s kind of special

The sunset was really wonderful as I drove home to meet Mason to start in on putting the bamboo flooring on my shop desks… I had to stop to snap these pictures

Mason and I got started putting down the bamboo  Fluorine on the services… Diane made a wonderful enchilada dinner for all of us to which was super nice

Nite all, nite sam

= me

Sunday was a very quiet day getting used to the new year and getting used to being home again. We managed to get out for a brisk walk up to the Duxbury window… It’s about a 3 mile up and back with some steep climbs in the sense… My type of hike!

Mason and Sasha came over for dinner and we use that as an opportunity to get to know Sasha better and also to let Mason take a look at the shop project… He’s going to help me with some of the work surfaces… We use the rest of the day to put together some of the new shelving… I’m so excited about this project

Nite all, nite sam

– me

We spent most of New Year’s Day driving back to Vermont… We had a really nice breakfast with ‘Linda and David… It’s been wonderful seeing them and staying with them… They are such wonderful hosts and great friends.

We left there and made a quick stop Stop to leave a couple more gifts at Jože and then headed north… It was a nice drive… Diane drove the whole way which was really nice. We listen to several podcast and watched and waited for snow

As a special treat we went through the automatic car wash before we took off… A very propitious way to start a new year

It was very nice getting back on New Year’s Day… It was just about sunset and there was enough snow with more coming… We’ve been traveling for nearly 3 weeks. I was glad to be home…

Nite all, nite sam

-me