Saw a full moon while still daylight on my way home to work.. Kinda cool

Gotta find soemthign special about ever day 🙂

nite all, nite sam
_me

Today  is my 66th birthday !.  Its the oldest I’ve ever been… I feel so very grateful for all the love Iand fun I have in my life.  <3 . 
Thank you out there for being part of that !
Diane and I decided to do one of our favorite snowshoe hikes in honor of my birthday. we had planned to do the 5ish mile hike from Bolton Notch road back to our house by way of Duck Brook

It turned out to be much more challenging than we ever imagined. We’ve done this hike zillions of time.. but today there was waist deep light snow making the going very hard and slow… and at the same time fun and beautiful. We realized at teh pace we could do in the deep snow we might not make it home before dark.. so we decided to strop mid way , have our picnic and head home.. better than speendign a cold night in the woods :-).. aIt was a perfect way to spend my birthday.. outside with all the beutiful snow !

We got home happy and tired..   
Diane made me my favorite apple cake for my birthday.. 

Then we did what so many other folsk were doign that night. We made soem great food (cabot mac and cheese).. and sniggled in to watch the superbowl commercials !

One of the opening songs was by Trombone Shorty.. whcih meant our good freind Josh was there.. he’s the light guy for Shorty

And Jon Batiste

Then came the commercials.. they were great.!

I think there was some football in there somewhere.. but that wasn’t the point 🙂
Great birthday !!!
noite all. niote sam
-me

Today was the satrt of my birthday weekend. We started the day with a ski.. we can walk right out of our back door and get on the tracks we’ve made.. First time in years the snow has been that deep and cosnistent

Today was allso the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)  robotics championship. 

there were hundreds of young robot makers and their robos there to with their robots a it was so fun .

A very accomplished young violinist played the star spangeld banner and we were off !

Here are some of my FTC freinds from Essex

We had a great keynote from Jeasne from Greensea IQ. SHe is a FIRST Alum from NY .. now workign in Richmond. We invited her to join the FIRST in VT board and she said YES !

Scott did a great job as EmCEE as always !. He’re he is whereing his famous shark hat  (he has a squid hat too !)

GOt to talk to my freinds from CVU about their robot. I got Ben at Beta to print parts for this robot.. and they used it to win !. THey’re goign to worlds !

ONe great surprise is I got to meet Adam from Montpellier. Adam is a friend i’ve worked with at http://hackclub.com but we’ve only worked together online. He lead a team to develop a Hackclub pranded raspberry pi nano based on teh RP2040. I’d never met him in person..He actually gave me  0f the Orpheus Pico hed designed !  They are so great !

I enjoyed speakign with the coaches and refs too.. these are soem of the real heros of our robotics program. THis takes time and skill to do 

Ran in to my old friends Kevin and judy

It was a great event. Kudos to my friends Lyz, Joe and Mark for making it happen !

later in the evening Diane and I drove out to Bristol for dinner with our freinds Marie, Jordan and Wiki.. ristol is such a cute town We went to cubbers..a. place we used to go when we came out to see our midwifes here.   Broagt back good memories. B. Wiki had some weird chocolates.  the perfect desert

Diane, Marie, jordan and I walked down the street to the South Mountain Tavern to see the band Red Admiril. My good freind and sort of boss Ed plays harmonica and weird procussion for them. They were GREAT !!!!

 

We headed hom on the early side because we were just about to have another snow storm>>
great day !

nite all. nite sam
-me

We are loving the deep snow this year.. and I’m loving really taking Fridays off.. this is when I can appreciate being ‘part time’ . 

DIane and I decided to explore the Bamforth Ridge area by walking soem of the old abandoned logging roads, then cutting up the hill to make a loop. The snow was thigh deep in most places.. and the going was stepp. .

it was hard going.. and so much fun !

We’re loving this winter !

nite all, nite sam
-me