Today was a beautiful cold and windy day. Diane and I decided to hike up pineo brook near the adaptive mountain bike trails.. we wanted to explore the sugar bush that runs all the way up the back side of woodard mountain.. the mountain that Bolton ski area is on.   We braught skis, snowshoes and spikes.. we oped for the spieks.. turns out in some places the snowshoes would have come in handy.. but it was mostly fune. 

we followed the sap lines wayyyy up into the moutains. such a beutiful place to be out in the snow. 

here’s the route we took

Great hike !

rebar came over for a little bit in the afternoon . to work on his project for Ben.. which was fun. I’ll show more of that when its done. 

as we were workign I got a text from my friends James and Alia abotu getting together tonight for dinner with our freind Mike. We all met at Pho Dang for great vietnamese. 

It was my first time meeting James in person.  Jame’s son Bishop  died in June .(here is his obit). he seems like an amazing person. 

Mike knew James from chess. James taught Mikes daughter Tess how to play. He connected us because he figured it would be good for James to talk to me because of Sam.. In a weird coincidence, my friend and coworker Alia was a good friend of Bishops .. We’d all tried to get together a couple of times in the fall. but hadnt made it happen.  Tonight was the night

IUt was a really fun. we talked about Bishop, we talked about dads.. food, clamming, music.. I think it was good  and fun and sad for all of us.. 

Funny how fun and sad can live together like that 

nite all, nite sam

-me