Today we had a hostage exchange.. seems I’d accidentally taken the wrong baking sheets home after passover at Ben and Tatti’s.. w I tool their bent hollow cooking sheets while they had our high top sheets.. Dianes favorites.. to make matters even more dire.. they had kidnapped our can opener.


Wa rranged to meet in a neutral place with and met their ransom demands aof Dianes freshly made cookie. We each presented  the prisoners.. and made the exchange.

I knew the can opener was ours because I had it’s handle.. I did the cinderella test and confirmed it was ours.

I surrendered Ben and Tattis weird baking  pans for a ransom of Ice cream and Mate

then we retired to Bens lab to see his latest project. He’s restoring a 100 year old player piano. The process is amazing..    it  requires  weird  components  like  hide  glue  and  rubberized  paper
I was able to connect ben to my cousin Bill G who lives in BTV and has also  restored player pianos.. THey’re getting together to swap techniques.. It’ll be so great to see them work together on this. its a HUGE project !

nite all, nite sam

-me