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Saturday night -not quite fall

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first thing first. My friend Jim is improving  He’s able to open his eyes. when someone yells his name.. . but is not yet conscious. The docs are more optimistic now..  i’m goign to go down there either this week or next when he wakes up.

Cool and overcast day.. I’m much in need of a quiet day and pretty much got one. Gabe had a Soccer game in Colchester.. .. fun game to walk, but the team had their first loss of the season..  Funny seeing everyone on the sidelines wrapped in coats.. .. it’s that time of year where it can be 80 one day and 50 the next.. I love it.

 

we got hoem to find that Jen had dropped us a fresh batch of fired samstones.. good thing.. we’re getting low, she’s been so wonderful to help us make these things. It’s been an amazing experience putting them out in the world. What a great friend !

 

mid afternoon Diane, the girls and I go out in the woods. Our goal was to find the secret road we’d stumbled on to the other week..

After tromping through the woods following my GPS we came out on the mystery road..

we followed it for a bit.. then it hit me.. it was the other end of one of the logging roads I frequently run.. I felt a little foolsih for not having figured that out sooner.. but the mystery was solved.

it was a beutiful day to be out in the woods.. mystery or no.. The only precaution was that the dogs had on their hunter orange. It’s bear season now and we her gunfire throughout our hike.

we drove back down honey hollow bas our freind Ken W/s place.. it’s always worth a picture.. what a spot..

not everything was picture perfect today.. my shop was looking a  little shopworn..  i spent an hour shoveling it out to get ready for a final assaut on a musical project I’ve had cooking for awhile.

in my email the other night I got another hoop picture.. this was from my friend Rick who took the pic at Westfordpalooza the other night.. he retouched and mirrored it.. quite cool !

Ah.. one last thing tonight. The Champlain Maker Faire is going to be two weeks from today at Shelbourne farms.. I’m concerned we’re not getting the word out for it enough.. Have you seen/heard ads for it ? Please let me know if you have or you haven’t.. It’s going to be fun !.. please help me spread the word !

ok.. that’s it for tonight..more tomorrow

 

nite al, nite sam

-me

Friday night – duality

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The last three days have been a blur.. On one hand,I’ve been insanely busy with work and family. Ive worked a couple of 12 hour days with much on my mind.. Even with that pace and workload, i have to admit that im feeling pretty happy and fulfilled with what I’m working on At the same time, i’ve been completely ‘stuck’ with worry about my friend Jim. Jim’s been in a coma 3 days now after a bad accident on his way home from work in Poughkeepsie . I feel so strange being up here without being able to do anything.. Im not sure if i should go down now.. Or wait until he wakes up (he will.. I just know it . He’s got some encouraging signs now)
The last couple of days ive only been able to write about Jim because it feels somehow wrong to talk about other day to day stuff in the same post as his story. For example, i wanted to talk about yesterdays open house at the high school which Gabe mc’ed on the speaker… Or talk about the crazy bad stuff thats going on in the middle east..Or gabes soccer dinner tonight at Jacks, But it feels weird to mix subjects like that. But.. I cant really not talk about my life.. Because life goes on.. And it does not.. At the same time. Its that same crazy duality that let me go on.. …No made me go on …. after sam died. Life keeps on happening no matter what happens….

Things felt very much normal tonight at the soccer dinner


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.. And I’m grateful for that

Get well jim.. We need you

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Thursday night – Coma

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My buddy Jim is still in a coma.. and it’s been three days since his accident. and he hasn’t woken up yet. There was some better news today.He’s breathing well on his own and he moved around and squeezed his wife Lee Ann’s hand hard.. but tonight my friend Bruce tells me he’s quiet again. It seems really unreal because I’m far away. This sucks.. this really, really sucks.

wake up jim.. wake up !!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone.. please keep sending good energy to Jim and his family

-nite all, nite sam..
-me

Wednesday eveing – Jim still sleeping

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Folks,

I was hoping to wake this morning to her that my friend Jim had regained consciousness after being injured in a car wreck 2 days ago. Unfortunately, he’s still unconscious.. but now he’s breathing on his own and moving his arms and legs. It’s like a bad dream to hear that such a good guy has been hurt so badly.

I’m so distracted today.. I’ve been calling my buddy Bruce to get updates all day.. He and friends Bill and Brad went to visit Jim again today.. but no change..

I just found this video that Jim took of Max, Sam and Gabe playing music.. I think it was only a few months before Sam died. I love this video.

Jim loves kids. he’s got a son and daughter and wife who need him.  Please keep sending him good energy today and tonight.

nite all, nite sam