Today was a treat. Our neighbor Sammantha (Sam) , her husband Souli and their 4 kids came by. Sam used to babysit our kids.. so it’s fun to see her with her own 4 kids.  Sam and. her family live on the west coast and were visiting VT. Our good friend and Sam’s mom Barb came by too. We spent the afternoon and evening with them . Their kids are really into science so we had fun playing with some of our science toys. 

We ended the evening with a Thermite flare.. always a good way to end a fun day . 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Tonight I did my 4th Jolts and Volts show of the year. It feels good to be back in that practice. 

Tonight show was for the  Technology and Design  Governors Institute of VT (GIV). I’ve done this show for many years .. Its run by my friends Shannon and Robin.. Great students.. and many of them  are kids of my friends. 

Love doing this again !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Our friend FInn has been staying with us for the last several days as his mom Marcie recovers from Hip replacement surgery. It’s been so fun having him around. We’ve been eating fun stuff like  home made cakes and fire cooked girlled cheese.

. yummmm ! !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today we held an event with the Betakids.. aka kids of employees.  We were testing out soem hands on exerises that we will do with orginzations like schools and places like King Street. We had  Jeremy with the Toolbus there helping the kids cut out wooden badges. We then helped them solder together a battery  and a blinking LED to allow each kid to make a cool blinking badge with their name on it. We also had activities around conductive playdoh . We had about 30 kids.. . It was fun and we learned lots of ways to make future events even better. It was great to have Finn and DIane there to participate and help out !

Canadian fires are still filling our air with smoke.. .. you could see it in the sunset

nite all,nite sam

-me