Today it will be 18 years since Sam was hit by a car. We got the call that he’d been in an accident about 9PM.. and our lives changed forever
Earlier this day in 2006 he left us this message..
His last words to us were ‘Love you , bye”… I love that
I cant believe its been 18 years. We love and miss Sam every day..
Sam is still so much in our lives,.. his memory, his face..
his stories are still everywhere for us.
For example>>> Just yesterday I was looking for a picture (which I still haven’t found) of a contraption Sam built to allow him to strum the guitar even with his arm in a cast.. that got me lookign through our thousands of pictures for e every picture I have with Sam and a Guitar.. Here they are..
Funn, quiet day here in Portland. I worked from home-away-from-home (WFHAFH) most of the day. It was cold and rainy here in Portland (as It will be until next May). This afternoon , Diane and I did some more work on Gabe’s basement .. One thing we came across was Gabe’s Halloween costume. He went to a Lab party as “Workign From Home (WFH)” wearing this Zoom screen .. pretty funny !
THis evening we went over *with Thai food) to see our good friends Tucker, Hailey and their baby Winslow.. We had a bunch of building supplies from Gabe’s basement that we were bringing for Tucker to use.. he’s an excellent contractor.. It is so fun seeing Winslow growing.. He’ll be 7 months old this Thursday ! Super cute ! It was great catching up with Tucker and Haily.. THey tolkd us about their summer trip to the Rainbow gathering which sounded pretty awesome !
We had another fun and low key day here in Portland. I got soem work done during the day. We also did some cleanup for gabe. We did some minor repairs around the house . The big accomplishment was taking a packed carload of stuff to t Goodwill. Gabes basement has become a packed with stuff tha previous roomates no longer want. GOign through that stuff and finding out a way to give it a second life was fun and rewarding.. The whole house feels lighter for moving that stuff on.
Since we needed the car for Goodwill, I dropped Gabe off at School and picked him up. When I poicked him around dusk we saw the most amazing display of crows.. Diane and I had seen a similar thing in the park yesterday. Gabe says its a new-ish thing.. but the crows have taken over the city. At dusk every spot on every tree by the river has its own crow.. Cool to look at and listen to
Diane made squash curry tonight .. really nice
Nite all, nite sam -me
ps. When I was in a hardware store this morning I spotted this.. Looks like the org Hackclub I belong to has some competition !
It’s so nice being here in Portland with Gabe. Portland is such a.n interesting climate. Its been on and off cold and rainy with occasional sun. Despite the cold they stoll have flowers and vegetables growing. I found this tomato in Gabes garden particularly friendly
One thing we love about coming here is the small jobs we get to do to help him maintain his house. We learn from these.. and build skills we can apply touour house. Today we did a mod to his fridge to clear the blockage that is causing ice build ups when the freezer goes into auto defrost. Its a bit like the problem we have on our fridge at home.. but it looks like Gabes is hopefully easier to fix. We took the freezer apart , foudn the defrost heater and crimped a length of thick coper wire aroudn it, with the other end of the wire going through the drainage hole. The internet says that will work.. we’ll see.
Next job was to clean out the dryer vent.. . glad we did..w e know two freinds who’ve had house fires because of not cleaning their vents. We used a very cool flexible brush you fit into a drill that gabe had.. Pretty fun. I felt like the chimney sweeps in mary poppins
