First day back at work for a week.. so kinda unsettled.. It started well though.. I  got to meet our friend Ri’cs grand dog Bently.. so cute !

Work was hectic.. but thats why they call it work I guess..

after work I was faced with a challenge.. we’re thinking of adding a new heat pump.. which meant doing some  rearranging of our very full breaker panels.. looks a little too full.. spent the night documenting our mess  to a new electrical.. ..kinda made me feel closer to the house

well.. it’s my happy space 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

I was finally able to go visit Fluffy.. our burning man bus project. I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been able to get over there.. I needed to get tsoem measurements for the flame thrower (aka poofer) .. It was great to see the progress on the clouds that will define the bus.

I’m hopign to get over there more often. as we get closer to the time Fluffy heads to the desert !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I did some of our civic duty today . we participated in a village walk audit for our town. It’s a program started by the AARP to look at the ‘walkability’ of your town.

To set the tone, We shared this postcard we found .. It shows a futuristic  view of our tiny town of Richmond.. as envisioned  in the early 1900’s . The funny thing is we found this postcard while looking through an antigue  show in Pennsylvania.
Today we had 8 citizens broken into 3 groups looking at  sidewalks, crosswalks and.. uh.. something else..
it was a 90 degree and humid day.. so not many walkers

d iane and I were on the crosswalk team.. we checked all 9 crosswalks in town. Honestly, I’d never spent much time looking at these crosswalks.  I was impressed that we had so many warning signs, blinking lights etc.. That said, we did find a bunch of things that need addressing. The biggest issue was that paint in the most used crosswalks needed redoing..

Here are some pictures of the stuff we saw.

We all gathered to compare notes afterwards.  W’er collating the results to give guidance to our town planners who are applying for some grants.
We are doing another one of these walk next Sunday in our own little corner of town.

I love helping out with stuff like this

nite all, nite sam

-jc

The flight gods were working today so I made it home by about 2:30.. It was so nice to see Diane.. We decided to go hike bolton with Kyle and Hunter.   It was a beautiful night.. we needed jackets and there was still some snow up there… much different from Nashville’s 95 degrees !

It’s so nice to be home !

nite all, nite sam

-me