Max and Becky left the house at 4:30 this morning to catch an early plane. Its been such a great visit. ! The marriage week worked out just like they had imagined it. We all felt deeply happy and satisfied
Max left me a token peanut butter cup( my fave) as a parting gift
George and Doreen also headed out today.. they came by around 7 to say goodbye. It’s been so good having them. I like that they are family now
Now it’s back to work..
nite all, nite sam
-me
Today George, Doreen , Diane and I headed down to Shelburne. First stop was Douglas Sweets to see Deb, Hannah and Brit..(who’s here visiting from Portugal !) I’m always amazed at what Deb and Hannah have built there !
While we were down that way, we stopped in at Earthkeep to check in on fluffy and retrieve my camping gear and some of the electronics components for cleaning. It was fun showing fluffy to George and Doreen. George is a burner.. we actually met on the playa in 2016. !
We made a quick stop at Shelburne farms.. tried the bakery.. but they were out of bread ! No worries.. it’s such a beautiful place to visit !
Around 4 I headed down to Middlebury for the VASE annul meeting . One of my favorite nerd fests of the year. It began with a great talk by my freind Josh B. He talked about AI designed nanobots. He’s gotten lots of press for this work. It was interesting to see what was under the covers.
We named a new teacher of the year.. and inducted some new members. These events are fun because I get to meet with such a cross section of people.
I left thre and drove as quick as I could to higherground. Diane, Max and Becky were at a Victor Wootan show there. Beckys parents had come but left by the time I got there. I got there late.. but enjoyed what I saw ! Victor is an amazing bassist. he plays with his whole family.
We got back home late.. in time for max and becky to eat the last of the marriage carrot cake. I
I guess thats a wrap !
nite all, nite sam
-me
Today people started to head back to where they came from . Gabe left first. Its always so nice to see him.. What an amazing man.
Then back home for a sleepy breakfast
From there we all went our differnt ways.. George Doreen Diane and Went up Honey Hollow to see soem foliage.. it’s one of our favorite walks
From there we met Max and becky at the udubon society trails for a second hike of the day. This place is really special to us.. we used to brign all the kids here when they were young. its where the haunted forest was born. !
Huh ?
We stopped by hunting gorge to show it to doreen and geoge.. (george, gorge .. hmmm ?)
When we got home George offered to show us a treat ((?) from his childhood. A peanut butter and miracle whip sandwich his mom used to make him.. Now i’]ve always thought that miracle whip was a kind of mayonise.. but not so..the label says that it’s a mix of mayo and ‘dressing’ . Its much sweeter than hellmans..
Gotta admit it wasn as terrible as I thought !
Later in the evening we headed to Beta .. I wanted to give my Peeps a tour.. It was so fun.. Max flew the sim over to where our house would be… if it were on the map. You can see the intersection of the Huntington and the winooski where max and beck got married
home to sleep .. perchance to dream !
nite all, nite sam
-me
We slept late this morning after the party. Actually we did a pretty good job of cleaning up the night before. Thanks to all the helping hands.
Our good freind rose from next door came over with a really nice gift she’d made more max and becky. Rose has known Mx since he was a few days old.
Somone found a pack f mushroom themed tarot cards so we all read ours.. I dont remember mine.. but it was a good one ! Oh yes.. it was “the hnged man” .. sounded bad.. but it’s ctually pretty good .. see below
Ever busy george took it upon himself t fix one of the benches from our table (actually hannahs table) tjat we use together so many people/
When gabe came downstairs he brought with him. Some meticulously made notes about some of the videos that we had digitized a couple of years ago. We spent a nice hour, looking at the pass… Seen ourselves our house, our kids, and of course a lot of Sam. Lots of laughter couple of tears.
Max hasnt really changed that much !
We finally wrangled everyoen into cars to go look at some of the beautiful scenery this time of year. Your original thought was to go up route 100 and over smugglers notch… But we figured that would be full of too many tourists so instead, we headed over towards Monkton to go get fresh cider donuts and dreamies at Yates. Dreamies are fresh cider donuts with maple, soft, serve ice cream, covered with maple syrup… You only need one per year 🙂 it was such a beautiful day.. No sign at all that we got almost 2 inches of rain the day before.
Here’s the happy husband and wife team !
From Monkton we drove back to jericho center to visit our good friends chris and kim
Chris has been qorkign so hard ontheir house here’s the new kitchen.. this is basically where we were sawing aand nailing helping build a wood burn sculpture just a year ago . quite a transformation !
George and Doreen had a really good time checking out chriss steampunk and stone art
we all moseyed (do we ever mosey ?) back t the zip line which is behind Chris and ‘Kim’s fire performance stage… The zip lines been there forever. We all take turns going on it so sketchy and so fun !.
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hey !>. a rainbow !!!
We headed Home after that… I decided to go over and look at the intersection of the river. We’re back to becky and got married two days ago… It was under at least 2 feet of water… We planned that perfectly.
Then another great meal.. this one with magic flavor changing berries ! After dissolving them in your mouth, they make everything sour taste, delicious the suite for about 15 minutes. We took turns eating all sorts of things vinegar, cream, cheese, apples, onions, lemmings… Lemons are delicious and sweet when you eat one of these
SUper nice day !
nite all, nite sam
-me