Today was nice..  a fair bit of snow on the ground.. not much in a normal year, but the most we’ve had this year.. DIane and I went bushwacking up a mountain we call 2360 near the catamount trail. It’s a fun climb through a beutiful forest.. We carved a loop aroudn the side of the holl.. ende3d up in several thickits and thorns.. but super nice being outside !

 

Diane saw a wooden plaque up this tree. It was a memorial for a guy named Ryan “Donny” Nadeau from Fairfax.   I looked him up.. sounds like a really great guy 

The snow was knee deep in some places !

Think we found some bear tracks 

 

And soem fox tracks.. I think

 

We came across a really old and overgropwn logging road and saw all the old stumps..

 

Great hike

Around 5 we headed up to Jen and Tims for a bonfire.  THey had a lot of wood including two trees blown down in recent storms..   Hannah Olivia, Debra, Brad, Char , Kasey , nate,  mushroom hannah , ryan , Mike and his wife.. .. 

 

 

I brought my poofer to wam things up !

 

Great night !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I had a great time today  with my good friend Elliott. Elliott is a fantastic artist  and maker. And a truly wonderful person.. One of his super powers is casting metal. He makes very cool casts of everyday objects  with a special ‘twist’.. check out his stuff here

 was  in his shop learning how to cast pewter.  My friend Ben  3D printed a small stylized version of our plane. Then Elliott helped us make a high temperature latex split mold to cast it. Elliott did the bulk of the work.. he had to engineer in wax channels for the hot metal to get to all parts of the cast.. and to allow the air to escape. It was a ton of work. I  had come in a few days later to help him pour the top half of the mold. TOday I helped pour the top half of the mold. 

While we were at it, we made a mold of a samstone, Elliott designed a pour and vent hole using wax rods…  then we poured it in a paper cup. Pretty cool !

Now all we have to do is wait for the molds to harden

 

super fun !
nite all, nite sam

-me

Exciting day at work.. cant go in to it here.. but an experiment went quite well at work.. that always makes me happy

The only thing I can show from the experience is this picture.. Who can resist ?! (ps.. I didn’t do it .. I promise !)

After work I met Diane and Finn at Pap Nicks after Finns basketball game. We love Papa Nicks.. they have great greek food !  

 

My freind and co-worker Lauren sometimes works at Papa Nicks.. she asked me to say hi to the owner Voula for her ..  I’ve always seen VOula.. but never met her.. so this was a good time to do it

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Tonight we had one of our roughgly quarterly dads group nights. As always we go to the hinesburg puplic house.. Its a great time to catch up with old freinds.. We reaclen this groub has been running for about 33 years.  .. We’ve all been thorugh alot together.. heartbreak and happiness.. Lots of love in there

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My friend steve was there.. .. it brught back a great story.. I fires met steve on a plane somewhere.. he had some interesting ink including some stylized atoms on his arms.. I recognized them by there electron count that they were Carbon, Hydrogen Oxegyn and Nitrogen (CHON).. My name sideways.. It gave me an idea for a shirt that I made for the boys..using atoms to spell out our name.. THh catch was I couldn’t find any drawings of atoms as nice as steves.. I didn’t know him at the time.. buyt i managed to track him down and ask him for the art he’d used for the tatoo.. he shared it with me and the rest is history

Wow.. I was looking up the story and came across some pictures of steve’s tattoos.. In this post there’s also a  picture.. of the memorial stone for our friend Elijah..  We’ll never for get that fine young man. rest in peace friend  . http://johncohn.org/base/2014/05/30/friday-night-elijahs-stone/

nite all, nite sam

–me