We still have beautiful snow.. but rain is coming.. diane and I decided to grab it while we could. We took a quick early morning hike up to duxbury window. On the way we notices these cool ice formations on Gleason Brook.. They look like frost fried eggs
I spend some of the day at our SOuth 40 site.. they have a great library there.. I found this book.. Great Ironic title..
My dad once saved Wes Anderson from drowning when he was a small kid. He’d fallen in the neighbors pool.. and our neighbor kid (aleksander- kumquat-george-and-I’m-a-grapefruit) came running out from behind his house. crying . and told me “my friend drowned:.. my dad heard what alex said and ran to the neighbors back yard. he pulled wes from the pool and gave him artificial respiration.. and he started breathing again..
Hows that for a story ?
Later on in the day.. yoga and soup night.. I love these potlucks
You know how APple sometimes makes photomontages of a subject or date… Don’t usually keep them.. But I got one today where I must’ve taken a Van de Graaff generator into work. I think it was two years ago and my friends the Clarks took turns playing with it. They all have fine white hair, which made it really good static material.
As a i nice contrast to the above ..
I had fun at work preparing for some experiments.. I caught this pic of my freind Yeseswi looking like an alien
We often call a cloudless winter day a ‘blue bird day” .. we had one of those.. but I’d call it a “red bird day” because we had this guy looking in our window this morning
Mid day we packed the car with all our snow things: snowshoes, skis, crapons and worm clothes to get the most of the beutiful snow. We headed to our friends Sandy and Michaels in Middlesex. Sandy is one of my oldest friends.. We’ve known each other since 5th grade. I think thats about 53 years (!).. we were sort of neighbors back in Houston. My freidns all used to gether at sandys because her parent let us get aay with stuff.. they were great people.. and I miss them . Sandy graduated early and went up to UVM. I used to come up and visit from time to time when I was at MIT. I clearly remember standing outside a bakery on main street in burlignton at 20 below zero and wondering how the heck folks could live here.. That was 46 years ago (!!).
ANyway,. it was great to see Sandy and Michael.. they’ve both retired. THeir daughter Rachel is living in Turkey after spending several years in China. THeir son Dan is living in Brooklyn.
We decided it was a good day for snowshoes, so we headed up in the woods near their house in Middlesex.. the snow was more than Kne deep whichis nice.. We havent had as much snow as we usually get here..
It was really great catching up with them.. and fillign them in on all teh stuff that we;ve been up to.
We had a great luch.. soup , fresh bread and salad.. all with a great view of the snow
We headed back to richmond to change clothes.. then we headed to Beta.. Trevor is still in town and I wanted to give him and his friends a tour of Beta. .We met up with Trevor and his friends Matt, Lizzy and James as well as our friend Nate and his great GF Hannah and took a look around Beta.. I think they really liked it !
Afterwards we tried to find a place to eat.. whcih proved to be harder than we thought on a sunday night. We ended up at Zacharys in South burlington. It was one of Trevors favorites back in the day,. it was nice for him to get to see it again.
Trevor is leaving tomorrow. for home in Texas. . so we sauf our goodbyes.. It was so great seeing him.. even after 14 years he was able to fit right back into our family like her never left !
Sitting down to catch up on blogging.. and I cant remember for the life of me what I was doing on Jan 20th.. No pictures from that day which is strange. I know I was busy because I wasn’t able to go to the FLL robotics event in Norwich.. I always look forward to that event.. Ah.. I do now remember something I I did today.. I worked on a fun invention for work. can’t go into it here.. but I was proud of its simple solution to a complex problem.. I’m really enjoying the invnting Im gettign to do now at work !
