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Sunday night – that old house

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One of the things I learned during our nice visit to my folks is that our old house in Houston is up for sale. It’s had several owners since our family 40 year stay there.. the owners between us have modernized, cut down trees, painted, changed just about everything but the basic shape of the house…

i looked ut up online and found these pictures. It was strange to see our old, comfortable and very modest house all dressed up for sale..  it was like seeing one of your quiet classmates from high school suddenly show up in a slick magazine..    i’m glad it’s looking good.. and hope someone nice buys it..

I have so many memories of this place… ..

i just hope they had a bomb squad go through and clean out my little lab in the garage !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Saturday night – lineage

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Sitting here on the couch in my folks house in sherborne mass… My dad is asleep next to me…ive been lookign through some of his books of family papers and pictures.. I came across some things I've never seen… ..

Heres a death notice of my great-great–great-grandfather joseph cohnborn in hamburg in gemerany in 1817 who moved to new orleans and became a. Printer, journalist and notary..

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.. And then i found the birth certificate for my great-grandfather… Which lists my great-great grandfather as 30 year old david cohn in 1879

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Heres my grandfathers birth certificate from bluefields nicaragua 1901

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And his birth cirtificat in spanish

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I also found this mention of my grandmothers grandfather max berman who died of rabies

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I love fining these roots… Now my roots and i are going to watch a movie together after a great meal that my mom and diane made… So ill sogn off now..

Hope you and your roots are all doing well

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Friday night – tree

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Greetings from Brooklyn. We left Vermont 2 o'clock to bring Max home. It's been great having both boys in the house. This morning we did a tradition, a little delayed, but we go out in the woods and decorate a tree or two with leftover bread, useeds etc. This time we want honey Hollow which was still covered in prism like diamonds of ice.
 
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The dogs love it because they sometimes get a piece of a donut or two.
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The trees this year were little worse for wear because of the ice . All of them were bent over with the extra weight.
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Before we drove off, we took this picture with the shirts that I made for the boys and myself. There inspired by my friend Steve's tattoo. recognize them? They are the Atoms of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Those are the most common elements in organic chemicals such as those that make us up. He also spell our name COHN, In truth their frequency is carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen… But what's that spell anyway?
 

The drive down here was peaceful… One surprise though, we stopped for gas in Connecticut to find that we had a stowaway. A mouse was crawling around in our windshield wipers. As far as we know he made it all the way to Brooklyn with us. It must be some sort of day for mice, I'm sitting in Max's kitchen about 2 AM (we just finished organizing his basement after his move ) and I'm watching a huge mouse run around.. Just like hime

 

Ok.. Gotta sleep now.. More tommorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Thursday night – spätzle day

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Great and slow day. Can't remember anything I did… Well… We did go out for cross-country ski with the dogs… It was fun watching Max's dog Io pull Diane around the field. We Did a little yoga, i did some work that I was late getting done. But the High Point was certainly dinner.

One thing I got Diane for the holiday was a spätzle maker. If you don't know spätzle it's a German/swish/Austrian noodle dish that takes running go and shreds it directly into boiling water. It's comfort food to teutonic style. Eggs milk flour , Butter and salt What's not to like?

It's just like my old landlady in vienna Frau Erol used to make… A little cheese, a little butter… Rapture !

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I spätzle woman, a spätzle day with my family…No complaints!
Night all, night Sam
– Me