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Ssturday night – 27 years of Wif’ and ‘band

27 years ago today Diane and I got married in the Round Church in Richomnd. and we are still so much in love. am so grateful and happy to have diane in my life.

 

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As a gift, a subeam came in and lit the back of this plant for me.. how cool is that ?

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We got our for a short hike this morning before the house woke up.. we spent our walk through the muggy. buggy weather talking about how nice it is to be together.. .. i love that girl so much !

qw did a little trail exploring and came out on a logging road we didn’t recognize.. .. it was the same old road, it had just been badly cut up by the terrible storms in july.. .. These same roads were compeltely destroyed in Irene and rebuilt.. seeing it happen again was pretty sobering..

 

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THere was a 10 foot ditch where we used to drive our car, and a 50 foot culvert had been yanked out of the roadbed..

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nothings driving on this for awhile. I wonder if they will rebuild it yet again ?

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After the hike, we went home . hung out with the kids and waited out the rain..

Later in the afternoon we headed up to tim and jens.. for a cookout. they had a good sized crowd of friends.. IMG_3767

 

The lake was queit and still in the misty , muggy afternoon.. IMG_3773

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Lots of cooks, lots of food.. everythign from hambergers,soy dogs,  clam frittersm kim chi, Brussels sprouts, corn, cheese bread, salads.. yum !IMG_3780

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It was great getting all the kids together.. .. it was pretty much the old ‘friends of sam’ group..   all now wonderful adults. IMG_3794

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the grown ups weren’t bad either !IMG_3824

 

yikes.. look at my filthy feet !

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After cake,we all headed down to teh lake for a campfire and max doign soem fire spinning.. We made up a trick last night using boric acid and alchohol to make the fire poi burn green.. pretty cool !

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Max did a little impromptu fire breathing witht he left over cooking oil from the clam fritters.. ewwwwwwww !

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Now the end of a long day.. a good day with family and friends..   Happy anniversary my love !

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nite all nite sam

-me

Friday night – bacongate

We're lucky in our town. We have something called 'front porch forum' . It a locally developed neighborhood forum system developed by my friend Michael and his colleagues. The way it works is that you can share posts with people in your immediate neighborhood. You cant see the posts of folks in other towns, nor can they see yours. It lends itself to tight community conversations on all sorts of things. You'll see 'for sale' notices , 'looking for' notices, lost and found, t own announcements.. That sort of thing

But thats not the only thing.. You also get a really funny sort of conversation that would never happen in real life. Sometimes its funny and light hearted.. Sometimes its angry and mean spirited..sometimes its just nutty…. This weeks discussion is about 'bacongate'… Evidently, someone observed another richmondite smuggling bacon into the vegetarian bakery to spice up his/her meal… I didn't read the original story.. ButI'm enjoying the aftermath… I guess generalizations and counter generalizations were exchanged between the baconites and the vegamites..what type of folks eat bacon ? What types dont ?

All was in fun at first.. Then some took offense … Some folks chimed in with ideas (bacon flavored cologne ?).. Cant wait to see where it goes next…

Im just glad to live in a town where bacon smuggling is still big news

 

Night all, night sam

-me

thursday night – dilemmas

What a curious day.. I spent this morning in  a little bubble of peace despite a ton of pressing work stuff.. by this afternoon, storm clouds were brewing. By late afternoon, i was presented with a serious of strange dilemmas.. none of them earthshaking.. but all of them vexing.    should I attend important meeting A and blow off important meeting B, or visa versa ? Should I support friend A in a technical argument at work or friend B.? Should I complete late project D or project E?  Should I pass on unwelcome feedback from Y to Z  or keep it to myself ? How do I do the right thing in a difficult work situation ?  yada, yada, yada…

Diane was helpful as always… the truth is the way..   Just spent the last hour making choices on all those topics.. hope i chose right .. but. then again. i’ll never know.. will i..

maybe it’s more important just to have chosen…

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

 

wednesday night – school day

Today was Gabe’s first day of school as a senior in high school..    Hard to beleive.. Very proud of this kid.. and his 23 pound backpack !

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He woke up early and pumped for school.. .. .. !IMG_3717

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It brought back memories of putting him on the bus for kindergarten. we  gave him a name tag just to make sure he got to school IMG_3719

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Diane had a cake waiting for him when he got home..

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OK.. so we overdid it a little 🙂 .. it’s just fun going through this on last time…

hope its a good school year for all of you out there..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me