Hot day here .. everybody’s moving kinda slow… Diane worked on soem new samstones. 

WHile I went to UVM for an early meeting. One was about a grant  I’m helping with.. THen I dropped by my freinds Doug’s lab to see if we might collaborate on a project at beta.   DOug and his students do laser spectroscopy.. super cool stuff !

Cool stuff.. aside.. it was hot and getting hotter. 

Diane and I had tickets for an outdoor concert at Shelburne Museum for Joe Russo almost dead (they go by the name of JRAD).It was a nice crowd there..t he band sounded so good. THey are my favorite Grateful Dead cover band. Joe is the lead singer and he plays while drumming !

The concert was sponsored by Ben & Jerry’s, so there was free ice cream… We needed that to beat the heat. To be honest, the heat kind of took some of the fun out of it. So we didn’t even stay to the end… But it was still a great time.

We’re traveling again tomorrow… Better get some sleep

nite all, nite sam

-me

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