We spent the morning with Selim and Helena.. we took them swimming in honey hollow
we said goodbye to our friends and they drove off to boston.. it had been a great visit !
Later that evening , diane and I drove out to the clarks for an evening workshop.. their house is really fun…
it was a fun session..looking forward to our next
nite all, nite sam
-me
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I played hooky today from work and we spent the day hanging out with Selim and Helena. It was a really great day.
First vermont breakfast at home.. waffles and maple syrup
Then up to Puritans to refill the maple syrup and to get some for them to take back to Austria
then some sight seeing around richmond
then a quick tour around BETA .. where we got to see our friend Mary’s heart mosaic.. THere’s a samstone hidden in it !
Selim and Helena loved the mushroom conference room !
and helena liked Aarons snake Clementine
we then went downtown.. first a quick Poke lunch (yum !)
then some church street shopping
a little Itlaian in little italy
we ran into our friends Danika and Braydon playing on church street
then we headed dow to nordic to show them the bus. .. No pics of that.. but right as the sun was setting we got in the car and headed back to all souls to catch a beautiful post sunset light show
we ended up at home with take out Chinese food and a very pretty moon !
super fun day with our friends
.. I think they enjoyed it too !
nite all, nite sam
-me
Super exciting day.. My old friend and ‘hausbrudder” (if thats a word) Selim and his daugher Helena arrived in vermont. Selim was the son of my House parents Helga and Necat Erol when I was an exchange student in Vienna Austria in 1979-80.. At the time Selim and his sister Karin were 8 years old.. together with their brothers Murat and Osman they were like family to me.. here we aare all Selim is the one over to the left of the picture together at the Erols country house in Meisenbach on 1984 or 85
We’ve stayed connected over the years.. especially me and my Hausfrau Helga who died in 2016 :
Selim is now a professor and the department head of the industrial design department at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt. Last November I went and visited him in Wiener Neustadt and gave a talk.. and got to see his whole family again.
This time he and his wonderful 18 year old daughter Helena are traveling in the north east of the US. Its so fun to have them here
Earlier in the day I got to hang out with two new friends.. Here are Mathew and Malachi.. Mathew has been working for our friends Deb and Hannah.. and Malachi is a high school intern at Beta/. Both cam e and helped us on the bus !
I also got to give matthew a tour of beta
nice to hang out with them.. you never know when new friends can turn in to old friends.. it’s fun when they do !
nite all, nite sam
-me
Diane and I woke up strange sight… A porcupine was walking through our yard. We see porcupines now and then but not generally during the day. At first we were alarmed that it might be rabid or something… But it was pretty peaceful. It’s circled our wood frame four times… Which was pretty strange. I’m a little worried that she might have been looking for her babies or something… But she didn’t appear distressed and she eventually wandered offLater that day after work,
I went and worked with rebar on test fitting the fire proof are on top of fluffy while it was still in the bay at D1.
Just for reference.. this is rebar standing 17 feet above the floor of the buss.. or 25 feet above the ground as he does this. What a guy !
later on that evening at nordic we had the first multi cloud test of our new lighting scheme i worked up using sound .. we like it !
a decent days work !
nite all, nite sam
-me