I’m just about through my 36 hours of solo puppy sitting  and I’m realizing that I’m not really a fit father. The puppy has had several ’accidents’ in the house no matter how often I find myself standing half clothed in the field with her. This is tough work.. even though Diane manages to make look easy…. She’s deintely the natural mom around her.. and the leader of the pack… The dog’s kept giving me the “you’re not the boss” look while Diane and Gabe were away..
    I spoke with them several times.. and it sounds like they had a great time at Stratton.  
    I haven’t done much since they’ve been gone. It was kinda nice being house bound by the puppy. I did get out a bit last night. I met Max, Emma, Meridith and Josh at Higher Ground to watch our friend Willa play as part of a 3 act show. Willa is one of the cast members of the Voices movie along with Max.. She’s a really talented singer/songwriter..She has a folky style with cool lyrics.. and interesting, unexpected rythems  (rythyms ? rithyms ?… man .. I can’t even get that close enough for the spell checker to figure it out) .  I really enjoyed her set..

She was followed by a kid who grew up in Vergennes named Justin Levinson. Most of his songs were about how tough it is that he went to college for music (Berkelee !) but is still waiting tables. He was pretty funny and was a good song writer… Not quite my musical taste.. but i enjoyed hs set, too

The last act was Jer Coons.. a friend of Jane’s .. He’s been over at the house before with his old band The Theory. They had a good high energy pop/rock thing going.. but by that time I had to run home and get Satori out of her crate.   It was a nice night out.
    One thing I noticed as how much those doggies missed Diane and Gabe.. They spent a bunch of time staring at the back door.. “when’s mom coming home” ?

    
My last surprise for the day was that the door to our room had blown open .. probably hen the front door blew open in the high winds we were having. I managed to get the room back up to  52 degrees before I went to bed.

This morning the puppy woke me about 6:30.. I woke again with a heavy heart.. somethings going on in my dreams, I think…  I fed the dogs and we all went for a walk in the woods. It was good to clear my head..

I’d had lots of expectations on what I was going to get done today…   and as always with expectations.. they backfired. It seemed that everything I got involved with didn’t quite work out.. I tried to work on my personal website (johncohn.org) to start putting info about my science shows.. but they’re having a huge MySQL meltdown and the servers are all backed up (It is effecting SamStones.org as well) . I tried listening to our online Yahoo Music Jukebox only to find they’ve removed all the ’interesting’ music stations that I like (klezmer, indian, asian. middle astern. brazillian, world beat. african, etc)… All they have now is standard pop/rock/country.. I asked about getting my money back .. and they said no way.. they’re ability to change your musical tastes is in the fine print of the contract.. grrrrr.. I also had a note exchange with USAIR who just told me that a whole bunch of frequent flyer miles I had just expired.. I asked them to donate the miles to charity.. and so far they’ve said no.. grrrrrr**2
   I had to get away from the computer. The opportunity came around 9 when the folks at the Richmond Land Trust folks invited me to go walk our friends fields and woods  with them. The lands are going to be coming up for sale and the land trust is looking at what they might be able/willing to purchase to keep it open. It was nice walking around with everyone. it was a beautiful day..

Chai and I went for a run.. then I spent the rest of the day puttering.. but not quite succeeding at anything..  .

Max invited me to have a late lunch with him,Jessie and Emma at Bridge street.. which was really nice and relaxing.. Then back here.

More in the ’weird drinks series’

I tried doing some torch cutting practice. While I succeeded in not blowing myself up.. I didn’t manage to cut anything well..  I finally gave up trying to ’do’ anything.. and just hung around.. nice.. if not productive.. 

Gnite folks. Gnite Sam
-me