Pretty uneventful today.. so slow that I’ll start with two pictures from yesterday. I took Gabe to Chris’s house to work.. Gabe’s been apprenticing with my friend Chris the stonecutter. Chris is an artist.. he does commision work of all kinds. Some of his work is memorials and gravestones.. He often talks about what it’s like cutting these messages into rocks in peoples memories.. in fact that’s how we became good freinds.. he made the original samstones..      As I dropped Gabe off I noticed a new memorial Chris was making for a couple.. I believe the husband had passed away. I like this Emily Dickenson quote they’d chosen.. It made me think of Sam…

Chris wasn’t there and I had to run.. so I left Gabe there in good company..

Later last night we had only three kids left in the house.. most have already headed off to schools. Those of us who remained got together to watch the last episode of The Colony. We don’t have a big TV.. so  set up my laptop to project it on the ceiling. We had to lie on the floor to watch.. it was great.. !

Switch to today.. a really uneventful day..   Late afternoon I left work to get Gabe from his new job at Mexicali’s (YEAH !!!!!!!) to soccer practice. On the way home I dropped by the Richmond post office to pick up a package. As I drove up I saw a crowd of reporters.. I jumped out of the car to see what was happening.. and forgot to stop the car.. it started to roll away !  I jammed on the brakes and wandered over to the crowd.

It was Doug Racine, our local candidate for the democratic nomination for Governor. The primary had 5 candidates.. all of them good. The top two candidates, Peter Shumlin and Doug Racine  were only separated by 197 votes.. the third, Deb Markawits is only 400 votes behind Racine.. It was close  !..  

I felt certain that I was about to here Racine concede the race.. but

instead, he told the crowd he was officially asking for a recount.. My

read of the small crowd there was that folks generally understood his

reasoning.

Note the bell in the background on top of the town center ? .. It actually used to be on our house.. It was taken from our house during a small fire in the 1970’s..

So.. that was the big political news from Richmond Vt.. AND REMEMBER FOLKS.. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST ! 🙂

OK.. i’m going back to my sleepy friday night..

More tomorrow..

Nite all.. nite Sam
-me