‘Linda and David and Willow took off around 10 o’clock this morning… After they left I got out for a run and admired the river ice that had broken up. Some of it is a good foot thick

Then around 2 o’clock our old friend Beckett showed up for a short visit on her way down to Boston. Just as she came my friend Rachel from California showed up. She’s in town with her daughter Natasha looking at schools. So we had a really nice lunch together.

Later in the day ‘Diane and I had a great meeting with police chief Kapitanski about the Richmond parking advisory committee… He’s such a fantastic guy.… Shortly after we got home I got on a call where our good friend Larry was getting and endowed Department head chair at Carnegie Mellon. It was a great ceremony with lots of our friends online.

By the time that was over rachel and Natasha we’re back… They’re going to be staying with us for a few days. It was really fun hanging out with them.

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It’s nice to be caught up on my blog!

More tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

Another gentle start to the day… And we all had it in the car to Stowell. We stopped at the Cabot Cheese Pl., Smugglers Notch spirits, the chocolate store, the pewter store, the Patagonia store… All the kinds of places we never go unless there’s someone in town. It was fun. We then headed up to Stowell and took a great walk On the quiet part of the stove bike path. It was blustery but really beautiful to be outside

Yeah what he marries in the afternoon which is guaranteed nap for me… And also for Willow the dog

We woke up in time to make yet another feast… This time bowtie pasta with mascarpone dressing. We always eat so well when linda and david are with us

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a nice slow start to the day. it was much warmer… But still cholesterol. We drove into Burlington to check out some bookstores and David Janiszewski. It’s really fun going into some of the places I’ve never visited…

we came back from Richmond just before the roads were closed for the parade for Ryan Corcoran and Siegel… The Olympics silver metal guy in the grand slalom who grew up here. We didn’t see the parade… But we got to see the posters which was pretty cool

Diane and ‘Linda fixed another feast then we all played dixit the wonderful art card game

Take turns rubbing Linda and David’s cute dog Willow… It’s so nice to have a dog in the house. Boy do I miss our girls

nite all, nite sam

-me

I am loving my post retirement Fridays… I really do try to do as little work type work as I can and concentrate on my own projects… Period this week that meant catching up a little bit more on some home projects including having to redo a good part of our wireless network.



It had rained a bit the night before so the trees were all covered with this nice… Pretty… But I’m hoping we get more snow

Around 4 o’clock Linda and David showed up from New York… ‘Linda is Diane’s oldest friend and Linda David are some of our closest friends. It was the day after Linda’s birthday so we had a feast including a beautiful cake that I made. Our friend Deb joined as well



It’s a great starting to see friends again.

Happy birthday Linda

nite all, nite sam

-me