We spent the mornign workign aroudn the house in prep for Max, Becky, Gabe and freidns arrival starting next Monday. In prep we’ve installed new wood working, painted the front entrance way, helped build a new wood shed, and cleaned every room in the house, today we worked in the yard until the moment I had to run for a plane. I’m heading down to DC for the National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting . It’s. a meeting I really enjoy.. full of great talks and fantastic networking. I admit that feel guilty being gone for two days while diane continues to prep the house for the coming week… The house looks great.. but I know it will look even better by the time I get back on Monday..
TOday was really fun. It was the first day of this year’s BetaLabs. It’s a program my freind Tyler came up with that brings high school kids tofgether to work on projects with Beta and the Generator makerspace. Two places I love. Last year we did it with a single school: Spaulding High School in Barre. This year we worked with our grat partner LaFran (aka Michelle LaFrancis) to pull in kids from other schools thrugh their school to work programs. THrough the year these students will learn abotu the sceince of electric flight then work with us to design and build a techcnial project aroudn those sceinces. Last year we really enjoyed seeing what the students came up with.. and helping them design-break-redesign and build. This year looks even more fun with more students…
Work today was fun. I spent a good part of the day catching up after being gone on vacation and doing some repair on our exhibits. It’s really nice to see my friends there..
We were both pretty jetlagged today as the pace of the last 6 weeks caught up with us.
THis afternoon for the first time we got to watch our neighbor Carley come home from Kindergarten. She is getting off at our house, because if she stayed on the bus ti get dropped at her house.. (which is next door).. it would take 40 minutes more !
Her mom alex comes over to meet her.. She loves school !
We spent the day working around the house in prep for max and becky and gabe’s visit next week. A little before sunset we decided to hike bolton to see if the foliage was changing up there
