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 !
TOday was great.. our old freind Trevor was back in town for the first time in 14 years. Trevor was a good friend of Sam and Gabes gack in the early 2000’s.. The kids all hung out together up at bolton and at each others houses. We have such great memories of him being always around.
(I’ll never forget that Trevor was actually spending the night here the night Sam died.. )
Trevor left Vermont in 2010 and moved down to Texas with his family. SInce that time he’s had three kids and is married to a wonderful woman. He’s got a great job and is living life well..
Trevor is in town to attend a memorial for a friend from High School. Having him here now seems like no time had passed at all. DIane went and picked him up at friends in Colchester and brought him back to see his and our friend Ian before he flew home to London this morning.> Diane spent the rest of the day taking Trevor around to soem of his favorite places.. THey went to Bolton,. Had pizza at Zacharys, stopped for a cider donut at Cold Hollow then came back for oen of DIane’s wonderful homemade pasta and pesto dinner with caramelized onion. focaccia.. all of Trevor’s favorites !.. Nate and Hannah came over for dinner too… Gabe called in too… He and Trevor have reconnected and have talked for hours
it was so nice having trevor around again ! it was like old times. !
