Nice day qat work.. Any day that starts with a hike qiht my lady love is a good day !
Tonight our Vermont Academy of science and engineering (vase) had our spring outreach committee meeting . We’re preparing for another round of grants. Vase has given nearly $70,000 to teachers and afterschool science clubs… It’s a great feeling. and These are really great people. !
nite all, nite sam
-me
TOday was momentous. I was able to give blood again for the first time in almost 25 years. I was a frequent donor before `1999 when the Red Cross put a ban on blood donations for people who had lived in teh United Kingdom for more than a year. The ban was due to the “mad cow” disease scare back in the late 90s’ Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) .. or more accurately the humann. variant which is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), is a prion disease. Its not a virus or bacteria.. but rather a rogue malformed protein (prion) which convinces other similar protein molecules to become malformed.. It’s kinda like Ice 9 in Kurt Vonnegut’s book Cat;s cradle ….
Wait.. where was I.. oh yeah.. blood donation. The Red Cross recently dropped the ban on folks how’d lived in the UK.. either because the disease had dissapeard.. or becaus they now have a test for it.. donno..
all I do know is that I can now donate blood again..
Its the first time I’ve been able to give blood since Sam died. Sam was an organ donor.. and it seems to me that blood donation is the only kind of ‘organ’ donation you can do time and time again..
I went in for my donation and found out that the guy taking my blood was new on the job.. it might have even been his first day.. He was great.. A long time phlebotomous was heing him along the way…. which added soe time.. my whole donation took almost 2 hours (!).. but it felt good to do !
It was 64 degrees out today.. which is CRAZY for february.. through the warmth really did feel good
Tonight we had yoga soup night.. always one of the high points of my week !
Nice ot have people coem visit
nite all, nite sam
-me
Super busy day.. nothing I can go n to here. The hilight of the day was the 5 minutes I got to spend in the car wash
Ahh 5 minutes to think !
nite all, nite sam
-me
FIrst order of business today was to go let Jerry and Nat’s dog Kota out for a quick run and bathroom break. SHe was happy to see me !
Today we decided to do one of our favorite hikes.. we drove up Bolton notch road and parked our car and walked back home via the old duch brook trail. We love this trai.. it could use a bit more trailmarking now that its not part of the long trail.. we always get a little lost
We noticed soem great paw prints .. May bobcat ? cayote ? not sure >
ALways see this old grafitti on the trees.. makes me sad to see the trees marked like this.. but is cool history.. I guess
We got to walk over a frozen bever dam.. hope we didnt wake anyone !
We left a sam stone at duck brook shelter
One cool other theme for the day was reflections.. (I should reflect on that . Check out the trick of light when the sun hit the vary small print on the edge of this airtag
We also saw these cool reflection on a side of a house.. but never figured out where they were coming from..
Now thts somethign to reflect on !
nite all, nite sam
-me