Worked from home this AM .. then headed in around lunch to give a tour to our friend Deb.. and her cousin Roxy and her daughter Ella. Roxy is a 787 transcontinental pilot for American., so it was really fun touring her and Ella around. We had a good time even thought only had a short while for the tour.. Both Roy and Ella did well in the sim.. we “flew” over Jonesville just to check it out.

Ella wanted a picture of them doing this thing .. I guess it’s a thing on the thing these days ?

After dinner diane and I took a walk around to check out the rivers and survey how things were going to restore the roads..

Check out these chunks of Wes White Hill rd !

Nite all, nite sam
-m3

I was working in St Albans today when friend Ross ran in with our friend Sophia on the phone. Sophia recently moved to Sweden .. SHe’s got a great job over there and is hiking all of these beautiful trails. We miss her like crazy.. and love that she’s over there having fun !

Driving home, I caught this rainbow (those pics never come out !) .. hi lighting the clouds..and some of the residual smoke that we’re still getting from the fires in Western Canada.

Finished the day with a really nice dinner and catchup with Shosh,. Aaron and Leica.. Even got some fluffy work done then too !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Focusing on the critters today,. Here’s our merlin listing of the birds we heard during morning coffee (Merling app is soooo awesome)

And here’s our game camera view of our live catch critter traps up in the attic. We’ve been seeing lots of activity.. but luckily none today 🙂

Nite all, nite sam
-me

Super fun techie day.. In early afternoon my Hackclub friends Micah, River and Micah’s mom Rachel came for a visit. We geeked out on PCB’s and code.. and managed to squeeze in a tour of the house. Micah gave me their latest version of the fidget spinner pcb.. and Rachel gave us a light up fluffy card she made and a circuit board she designed to light art !
I’ll treasure them all !

While they were visiting I saw that Umiak had resumed their tubing service even though the Winooski is still running pretty brown and snaggy from the storms

Towards evening , friends Kasey and Ross came over and we started for real on our Vacuum Tube Tesla projects. It was really fun looking at my other Tesla coils, scrounging for circuit diagrams.. then buying parts. It’s going to be an awesome build. They have a great design for the thing as a centerpiece in the house they own together.

I’m really looking forward to this project !

While we were working, DIane spotted a giant Rat in our blueberries.. We named him “Atticus” .. and don’t mind him .. as long as he stays outside !

Satisfying day !

nite all, nite sam
-me