Diane and I woke early , worked out and then took a walk down to the railroad district in search of goodies. THere’s a farmers makrket there on Sat and Sun that is just so cool. Lots of southwest food and crafts. I love people watching there.. Lots of folks who look like us !

 

Later in the morning. we helped Max and Becky load for a Dump run .> THey’re constantly doing renovation on their home.. this time it was to put up a new wall and door between their work room and the garage. Their Subaru was packed to the brim before we headed off to the transfer station.. which was itself an adventure !

After our work was done, we all headed out to Diablo canyon to meet Max and becky’s friend Karen and her dog Balder for one of my favorite hikes.. it’s such a beautiful landscape !

Later that evening  we had great take out from the Vietnamese place down the road. .. as well as food commentary from Max with his recent treip to Vietnam.    Then some fun in the game room of this wonderful house we’re renting !

nice day !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Woke up in our really nice AirBNB to find that the hot water wasn’t working well. We reached out to the owner, and she could not have been more helpful. It’s a long story, but the owner offered us to swap to a different home she owned .. and guess what…
it was directly across the street from max and Becky’s.. !. She and her husband live in Texas .. but have the home here for retirement. They know max and becky well .  It’s a fantastic place and could not have been more convenient . We are so grateful to the owner for both of her wonderful places.

Once we were settled, we headed out with becky to see where she is taking her classes in sustainable agriculture It’s in an experimental greenhouse dedicated to renewable, low resource food production. She showed us around the permaculture experiments were fish generate nitrogenous waste which  is used to  fertilize plants, whcih generate material to help feed the fish. She also showed us several low resource hydroponic setups.   It was so cool !  Max joined us for the look around.

Later in the afternoon Max came home and we took Violet to the dog park. It was a beutiful evening. We got to see the near conjunction of Venus and Jupiter

We went home and got take out food and looked at maxs wonderful pictures from his recent trip to Vietnam with  Abbot and Mason

What an adventure !

nite all, nite sam !

-me

DIane and I woke up at 3:30AM and headed to the airport for our trip to Santa Fe. Heading to a plane this morning brought back so many memories  of early morning flights.. I don’t really miss that 🙂 

 

The flight out was uneventful. Great time to catch up on email and other stuff. I am soooooo much less busy now.. I get a tiny fraction of the email I once did. I still cant seem to stay on top of it though. 

We got to Albuquerque about noon and caught the  van to Santa Fe. Becky picked us up where the van dropped us.. and we headed to Max and Beckys.  It was great to see Becky. Violet and ‘the girls”..   We got hailed on which was pretty cool !  Look at the variety of colors in the eggs they get !

Max came home about 6 and we headed to Los Portillos for dinner.. Great Sothwestern place… I love the food here so much !

Then home to catch up. ..   

So nice to be here !
nite all, nite sam

-me

today was a bit of a wind down… Everyone is relaxing a bit from the board meeting. At home, we’re getting ready to head out to Santafe. One thing from today.. I got a short movie of the “Pavlov” project plannign tool I built for our team. Our project manager sophia has a button on her desk in North hanger. When we do something good regarding making our project management goals, Sophia can push a. button and this hacked candy machine on Shannon’s desk in D2 releases  some food pellets..  (I can also control it from siri using my watch) It’s the best project management tool since the spreadsheet !/. Here’s our friend Henry getting a demo.  

Wait.. i’m getting hungry.. better go finish a project !

nite all, nite sam

-me