Exiting day at work today. Our friend Jeremey brought his amazing tool bus to Beta for a practice session. Made it helped Jérémy outfit bus with every sort of maker, tool… CNC mills, a laser, cutter, 3-D, printers, welders, handtools, even a robot that could give tattoos. We were practicing for a beta kids event that we were having later in the week. It’s so fun working with Jérémy. Bunch of people at work got robotic, tattoos. Not for me though… My only tattoo is on my tooth.
Note: . i’ve been off blogging for several weeks due to life being busy.. here starts my good faith effort to catch up 🙂
Today was a normalish day at work.. got a chance to meet my frein Jerry’s brother and sister in law… they are both Burners from Taos. Danny is like my not so evil twin. He’s an amazing maker… I’m really glad to get to know him !
Also got a chance to briefly meet another Dan.. this one is a friend of my good friend Nick. I helped him find a summer gig with the wonderful Beth White and friends at Habitat for Aviation in Highgate.
This afternoon Shannon and I drove up to Northern Vermont University (formerly Johnson State University ) to do a Jolts and Volts show for the Gifted and talented middle school program that my friend Colin helps run every summer.. It’s was my third show for the year and it’s beginning to feel good again after the Covid hiatus in doing shows. THis show had about 60 kids.. all of them wicked smart and in to technology. Colin and his colleagues have been running this program for years.. I can’t even imagine how cool it is for all these middle school kids to be able to get out of their own houses and take a vaca at a college campus. ! Colin is soooo great with the kids !
Got home and checked on the fledglings.. They were still there together huddled in the gras.. Mams and pap robin were still feeding thm.. all systems go I think ! .
As I was walking to the beach last night I came across there baby birds huddled together on the grass under a lilac tree in our yard. I could see the nest they must have been in . They were very young.. they had feathers.. but couldn’t fly. I assumed they’d fallen out of the tree.. I didn’t know what to do. Diane and I did a little research online and read that it was much more likely that the parents had kicked them out of the nest and would be looking after them.. sure enough this morning the baby birds were still there and mam and poppa bird were takign turns feeding them..
That evening I drove down to Norwich University to give a Jolts and Volts show.. It was for the Governors Institute of Vermont (GIV) Engineering camp.. I love giving these shows.. and this audience is one of my favorites. I thing they had about 60 kids.. super sweet and nerdy.. My friend Erika’s son Charley was in the gorup.. The kids were so gtreat !
I really love doing these shows .. good thing as I have several more this week !
Gabe headed home today after a great stay for Jacks wedding. It was so nice having him here !
We dropped him off in the morning, only to find that his flight was delayed to the point that he’d miss his connection in Newark. We spent more than an hour trying to find him a way back home. In the end we did .. but he had a long flight with 2 stops.
Later we caught one more of Masons soccer match.. And then came back to t he house with Mason. Emma, Elizabeth and Mason’s friend Mikey and his parents. Mikeys dad was the coach of the team. They were all so nice ! We took them down to swim in the Huntington.
Elizabeth and the kids headed back to New Hampshire. The afternoon was really weird.. the smoke from the Canadian fires made the skies really hazy. The sunset was strangely beautiful too.
I took a walk with my friend Gary in the late afternoon.. we walked down by the river with his dog Seneca
