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Monday night – Crickets

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I’m sitting here in a quiet house listening to the most wonderful sound.: crickets.. lots of them.. Out singing for mates.. or singing for the heat.. or just singing for the heck of it. The quiet pulsing chirp of these things slowly works its way into our brains as summer starts to wind down.. all nights get full of this sound.. i love falling asleep to it.. It reminds me of cooler days coming.. cold wet dew in the morning and sweatshirts at night.. even as it’s still hot during the day.

 

it reminds me a gain how much i love were, whne and how  we live here..

nite all. nte sam

-me

The Cricket sang,

by Emily Dickinson

The cricket sang,
And set the sun,
And workmen finished, one by one,
Their seam the day upon.

The low grass loaded with the dew,
The twilight stood as strangers do
With hat in hand, polite and new,
To stay as if, or go.

A vastness, as a neighbor, came,–
A wisdom without face or name,
A peace, as hemispheres at home,–
And so the night became.

Sunday night – Trinapathon

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I woke up and realized that today is the 33rd anniversary of my taking my job at IBM .. unbelievable !

We had an incredibly lazy day today.. we called it the ‘trinapathon’… we started with a 2 mile run.. then a 2.5 mile canoe ride. We drove 2.5 miles down dusxbury rd and floated back to our house.

 

..then I fell asleep on the couch for a few minutes..  then a 2.5 mile run to get the car for me.. and a 7 mile bike ride for diane then a 30 min float in the pool.. (during which i fell asleep twice) .

 

Then a nice dinner with ellen, will and julia.. after which gabe, will and I each fell asleep on the floor..

doesn’t get better than that !

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

Saturday night – steer clear

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Full and fun day.. It began with an eary (for me) morning Jolts and Volts science show for the E21 conference… My friend Mara had gathered school l Librarians from all over the country at champlin college for a packed two days of ‘making’ and exchanging ideas. I wasn’t able to attend yesterday.. but I heard it was great. the librarians toured Generator, made blinking badges and got in all sorts of mischief. Today I was the kick off.. they were a great audience !

I also got to hang around for my friends Jeff and Drrick (from Sparkfun) to hear their awesoem talk on Internet of THings. I got to play around more wiht their open sensor data platform https://data.sparkfun.com/  .. I was a beta tester for it.. t’s simple and secure..very nice job !

i loved this morning.. the only downside was that I dropped and broke my phone. ugh… getting a replacement on monday.. right now it looks pretty cool !

 

diane and I managed to get a quick hike in this afternoon .. dodging the bugs..

Than around5:30 we headed over to the Lacey’s for their steer roast.. this year it was a  benefit put on by Black Fly.. and artist collective which included several of our friends (aaron. mary. joe, connor… )

we saw the first red leaves of fall today as we drove up.. noooooo! not yet !

the centerpiece of the event was one of Chucks steers roasted ona  contraption that our friend mark invented.. it was able to roast about 600 lbs of meat at a time.. it swivels in 2 directions to allow the meat to be cooked on both sides. It’s really brilliant.

gabe and his friends were over helping out.. here are a pair of jacks and an ace (lol. thought you’d like that Ian)

gabe was serving meat at the beginning ..

.. ewwwwwwww

after dinner out came ice cream.. gabe. jack  and ian helped out on the scooping.

there was great music all through the night.

I was particularly happy to hear Lura H.. haven’t heard her play for years.. she was better than ever.!

we left as it was getting dark.

What a nice summer day !

ok.. gotta get soem sleep. more tomorrow. Night all , night sam

-me

Friday night – ID-ed

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I was walking down a busy city street today with some work buddies when someone shouted out my name. I looked around and saw a bunch of guys sitting on the curb. Looks like they were taking a lunch break. One of them shouted out my name again and came over to talk.. He'd just fineshed watching the Colony on netflix.. And there i was.. We tal ked for a little while about it.. He was a really nice guy.. Didnt even get his name. Its a tiny world sometimes !

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Flying back to Vermont now.. Enjoyed seeing my work freinds.. See you guys soon !

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me