This morning  Kyle got us all together on a call to tell us the very sad news that our friends Lochie and his fiancee Cass died in a small plane accident in california on Sunday. There were to other people killed in that crash.  We are all in shock…

Lochie was one of our most loved BETA folks. He was an Alia test pilot and could fly anything with wings or rotors. He was also on the flight sciences team and was a brilliant aeronautics engineer. He’d left BETA early in the year to go to another comapany, but had just returned to BETA. 

Lochie’s  fiancee Cass was well known in the burlington arts and business scene. The two of them were friends with many people here….    They will both be so missed.   Theres a memorial planned forSunday  Jan 28th that will be half at Hulu where Cass worked and half at BETA.. 

One  memory I have of Lochie is around the flight Alia made to Bentonville  AR in 2022.  Lochie flew the last leg of the the flight and had a Samstone with him. It meant so much to us.. I wrote about it here

 

Rest in peace Lochie and Cass.  you will be so missed !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I’m doing this post a few days late.. and I cant remember a single thing I did that monday.   One peice of big news is that our function at Beta has been transfered into the Industrial Design area.. I think thats a good thing.. still tryign to figure out what that means.

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a nice morning with Vince, Trish, Gabriel, Vivian, Joe and Pat. ..We  had an unsuccessful hunt for a brunch place.. but no luck.. all the favorite places where clsed.. and the. others we found were too crowded.. go figure !  We settled for take out bagels

 

Had fun playiign with the kids for the rest of the morning

 

THen a nice ride home..good life discussions.  I love driving with Diane !

nite all, nite sam

-me

This morning we saw soem of the impact of the wind storms the last few days.. check out this cool pattern that part of our firepit made in the snow !

 

Today we headed down to Longmeadow Mass to meet our newest grandniece, Vivien. Vivien is the 2nd child of our nephew Vincent and his wife Trish. They also have (almost) 4 year old Gabriel. 

We also have another new Vivien  on another side of the extended family. Becky’s brother Danny and his wife Elizabeth have a new baby Vivien as well.. We got to meet her at max and Becky’s wedding..

It was great seeing Vince, Trish,, Gabriel and VIvien. DIane’s brother Joe and  his wife Pat were also there.. so it was a little family reunion.. Super fun !

Its great  seeing Joe and Patg around their grandkids.. 

We all headed to  a nearby Reptile place to check out the snakes.. some of young Gabes favorite things !

Then home to make fresh pasta for dinner. DIane braught her new ‘Chitara’ pasta maker.. it’s so fun and easy. Gabe liked helping !

 

AFter dinner diane and I drove to our hotel. It was absolutely full of kids that were here for a basketball tournement.. THey were loud but super fun !

 

Fun day with family !

nite all, nite sam 

-me