And I’m so behind in my blog… But I’m intent on catching up… It’s really fun because it reminds me how much fun I’ve had over the last couple of weeks.

 

Today I woke up at Joe and Pats and hung out with them for a while… It was really great…

 

 

 

Then we headed over to our good freind Linda and Davids.. We hung out with them for awhile and had an amazing lunch

 

Around 2 I headed out towards Bethel woods  which was about 2 hours away. I am meeting up with my good freind Shmul whi’s comeing all the way from Israel to see these shows .

 

First stop though was Romas pizza to fuel the trip !

It was a beutiful ride.. I met up with Shmul, and his freinds Yoav, Doron and Didi at a mexican resturant in Montecello NY. What an interesting town .. it was full of Chassidic jew from NYC. all dressed in long black clothes and fancy hats.. kinda wierd for a 90 degree day..

 

 

Doron .. is an American who is married to an israeli and lived in Israel for a long time.. he and Shmul oare old music buddies. Yoav and Shmul used to have a Jamband show on Israeli radio until Yoav mooved ot Brooklin to work at Square .. and Didi is an old Israeli army buddy of Doron and Shmul.. All conversatiosn were in עִברִית if I was not part of the conversation… I wish my bar mitvah hebrew was better !

DOron had found us a great AirBNB on a small lake in Foresville. It was a great house.

About 5 we headed towards the venue..

turns out we weren’t the only ones going there 🙂

 

it was so cool seeing the famous site.. I’d read so much about it.. Yaskir’s farm.. it was truly a beautiful location..

 

The crowd was so nice and happy.. lots of folks.. I thin there were 15000 folsk .. and both shows were sold out. I’d gotten a really nice up front ticket from the band.. but it was so much more fun haging out back on the hill.. we found a great place.. and sat down..to enjoy the show..

as soon as the much started we were on our feet dancing.. for the entire night..

what a GREAT show !!! my dancing muscles..and my smile muscles were good and sore by the end of the night 🙂

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I took off mid afternoon for Endicott.. We were down there to see Dianes brother Joe and Pat.. and our freinds Linda and David. .. It was a bonus trip.. as I was headed dwon that way to go to a couple  of Phish shows I Bethel NY  with my good friend Shmul who came in from Israel. Bether was only about 1.5 hours away so visiting Endicott was a good first step.

Joe and Pat live in Diane and Joe’s parents place.. theyve fixed it up so nicely..

touring their gardens I thoguht how much dianes folks would love the place now

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Today began with helping Diane load her garlic for drying. She decided to use the shelving where she started her seedlings.. and turns out that was perfect !

 

While Diane wrangled the garlic.. I was wrangling the lights for the  @#$%ing bus.. I’m building a system to light 90 some odd plywood clouds with 14,400 addressable LEDS.. .. Here’s the first photo of them responding to my wishes.. good so far.. long way to go

 

oop.s 3.5KW of LEDS can generate a lot of heat. Sensor in the yoga space sent me an alarm when the temperature is 90°. I had left the LEDs on and then heated the room

Tonight was  this political  event at our home . Our friend June had asked to use our house for a gathering for Ted… It was really interesting. It wasn’t a large crowd but the conversation was pretty interesting.… Our good friend  Ted i, our close friend Tim’s brother, s running for state office… State attorney. I really don’t pay much attention to politics… I know I should but my brain is full. I never even knew what the states attorney was Ted is running as a Democrat against Sarah George. She  seems like a really good person also. Ted I know to be a man a great character. He’s been a public defender and believes in both compassionate handling of people who are committing their first  offenses.   From what I understand Sarah has similar views but seems to not be holding repeat offenders  accountable. …

It was a small rain with really interesting conversation. Again I really respect for Ted and his family and it was a pleasure having this event in our house. I certainly learned something

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was my first full day back at BETA.   It was really catching up with everyone. We had a fantastic workshop with some friends from the echo museum. My friends Nina ran the workshop… She’s such a pro. We are thinking about how best to reach kids with science contact.… Echo and Nina have such a great experience with that

we really appreciate Nina’s insights !

nite all, nite sam