Today we got the quilt that our sister in-law denise had made just for us. We got to pick out the pattern and the colors when we were down in Kansas last march

Denise is a master quilter.. she has a huge computer controlled cutting and quilting machine that is a wonder of automation. 
Aftr picking the design, we baught the cloth and denise went to work..It was a year in the works.. . and  it arrived today.  !!
It is so amazingly beautiful.. Check this out !

Thank you so much Denise !!.. We will always treasure this !

 

The second excitement for the day was our first cahance to meet Baby James.. the new son of our good freind Kevin and Margaret   They brayght james by to meet us .. he’s so cute !

It was great cathinng up with Kevin and Mrgaret. THey are really enjoying their ‘baby moon ” !

BUt wait.. thres’s more !

later in the day we met up with Tim. Jen and Deb for a  belated birthday  dinner for your’s truly. we had a lovely dinner at the Stowe village inn that our friends Mike and lauren have beautifully refurbished. The place is gorgeous.. , the food was great and the friends were wonderful as always. 

 

The final event for this very fun and busy day was goign down to walk our freinds Jerry and Nat’s dog kota. THey are out of town for the evening.. .. LKota is such a sweetie !

Wow.. what a jam packed day !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Remember last mOnday when diane and her friends clamber Camels hump and butt sleded down ? 
TOday was my turn. Diane and I grbbed our seld and hicked up to the top of camelshump. It was a gorgeous day… I’ve never seen the wind more calm a t the top..

Being on top of the maintain was fun.. but the most fun was sleddign down. It was insanely fun.. you go SOOO fast. 

 

There were at least 3 feet of snow at the top.. not muc really for this time of year.. but we’ll take it !

 

We live in such a beutiful place !

nite all, nite sam

-me

• Late this afternoon I drove home and picked up Diane and we drove to Barre. Our young frind Jovian is turning 2 years old today. We drove to our Friend Rachel’s house for the party. Rachel is a freind from way back who recently moved back to Vermont. She just baught this house.. its a really curte place in the heart of Barre. The place was full of big people and little people.   It was great meeting so many new people !

Happy birthday Jovian !!  

nite all, nite sam

-me

Funny coincidenc today.. we opened a piece of euipment to debug something and I came face to face with the a japanese motor controller that I  know from a completely differnt application…

 

This motor controller is the same one I helped brother billy use for his very cool skeleton zoetrope back in Nov of 2022 

May not seem like such a big deal.. but this is an exotic peiece of equipment to run into twoce..

I gues what goes around comes around.. no ? 

 

niet all, nite sam

-me