Tonight after work Diane and I went to a memorial service for our friend Firefly (carol)’s husband Tom. He died this week of esophageal cancer. Firefly is on e of our burning man friends. She just showed up one day and started cleaning up the workspaces as we worked on fluffy. She was with us at build week on the Playa this summer. That’s when she told us about Tom’s illness.
I never met Tom…. though we got a sense of him though his Obit.
It was good meeting Carol and Tom’s sons at the memorial. We came on the late side.. many of our troop came through earlier. Its nice how experiences like burning man.. and projects like Fluffy bring people together. Its kinda like an extended family. I know Firefly felt the love.
We’ll keep Firefly and her family in our thoughts..
This evening we had a nice small gathering at the house It was for Diane’s ‘boot camp’ group. These wicked strong ladies.. amazons in the truew sense.. . meet at 7 on mondays and thursdays for a hard core outside workout rain, shine or snow. Carol is the fearless leader. They even workout when it’s 8 degrees out. They are a really fun group..
It was so fun getting together and showing them our crazy house !
Today was the big push to reinstall Fluffy’s clouds in prep for our shwoign at the Burlington New Years Eve festival. DIane and I got there at 8 am and worked with Duane, Rob, Amey and Marie to get the Driver side clouds up. We were able to get them up and workign in 3 and a half hours. A new record. !
When we were finished with fluffy, we went up to Generator for their makerfaire.. we were a bit early so we walked up and down Pine street and did a little window shopping. It was cold and windy.. not a soul out.. Kinda fun !
We got into generator and check out the wares there.. some really nice stuff. ! Lots of creative people ! Sorry I didn’t get any pics pf their stuff !
We woke to a nice dusting of snow. .. We took advantage of the day to do a fast climb up to the Duxbury Window.
THis evening we held the BETA makersfaire. Thats where all of BETA employees and ‘BETA Adjacents’ (eg BETA Friends and family’ came together to show off their own crafts.
I’m bringing the alia ornaments that Max and DIane have been helping me with. We got the last of the ribbons on this morning. Lots of tying !
I showed up about 3 to help with the setup of the makerfaire. BETA has sooooo many clever and crafty people. , I was really looking forward see their wares !
I set up in a. corner next to Charlotte aand Ruby
The makersfaire was so great.. lots of beautiful work. and beautiful people !
By the end of the night I’d sold over $2000 of the ornaments which sold for a suggested donation of $15. Early the next day we turned that into a $4000 dollar donation to Toys for Tots VT.
