Saturday night – Deutschefest

Tonight was a big night.. I mean that in two ways.. one that we didn’t know until late in the evening. .. That’s a story I will save until tomorrow

Gabe was determined to get as many days in the great sn

ow as he could so he met up with Devin and Nate (I think) up at Bolton for the whole day

while Gabe was out, Diane was super busy making food for tonight. Habre esnted one more gathering with his friends before heasing out to Germany. He[d asked us to have a German fest..

Diane takes challenges lsike that very seriously. .In the course of the day she made home made pretzles (!) .. or Bretzen.. as they are called I Bavaria. She made homemade German noodles (Spaetzle), Sauges and sauer kraut ( Bratwurst mit Kraut) , Bavarian cheese spread (Obazda) .. German red cabbage (Rot Krout) , muled wine (Glühwein) and Appel strudel (Apfelstrudel) Diane shows her love for all of us in many ways.. and one of the is in the kitchen

Diane a, Nova and I did get out for some sunshine and snow

People started showng up at 5:30 .
I dressed for the occasion by wearing my ederhosen from when I was `9 and my green white cheked (grunweiskariert) shirt and rd vest I got as a going away present from my team in Munich.. I’m justh happy I can fit into my 19 year old clothes

Gabe treates us to some of the Sausage sayings he’s picked up on his look-see visit to Würzburg.

and we played a rorally innapropriate word card game wirh Kasey, Brad and Char
it was a great gathering ., lots of friends we hadn’t seen whe Gabe was hoe. And many of them we had seen..

we went to bed so happy

and then.. …..

nite all. Nite sam
-me

This afternoon our good friend Sumner came over to see  gabe. And to go check out the snow in mad river. Sumner has been one of our good friends foreever. I used to run with his dad.. also Sumner .. who was an amazing runner. Sumner died in the early 2000’s .. We made a pinky prise ( I remember that expression) from Sumners mom and our good friend Susan .. to keep younger sumner in our lives.. Every time I see him I remember that promise. |. Sunner and Sam we’re good friends.. and when sam died, sumner made a huge effort to step in for Gabe. <br><br>hes such a great person..

Sumner and his GF G are getting married soon.. shes awesome too.. I’m very glad they are in our lives. Diane and I got in a late afternoon doggie walk by the Rivershore.. the huntington and the Winooski are completely frozen over.. it’s been several years since I remember seeing that

nite all, nite sam

-me

this has been an absolutely magnificent winter. The best snow in decades. We are trying rto get out in it as much as we can.. Diane is out every day.. I try to keep up this morning we went for the billionth ? two billionth ? rivershore ski before I headed to work . Its so nice to be able to literally ski out our back door .. and except for a short walk on the road be able to go for the most beautiful ski along the Winooski river

I love where we live !

nite all, nite sam-

-me

Yikes.. We’ve been battling a pretty serious electrical problem in the house. The lights in the downstairs bathroom, , the furnace room, the fridge and the outside back door light have been flickering for a few months.. now they’ve gone out completely. I’ve been meaning to debug it, but today, the lights stopped working completely..

Unfortunately, that makes it pretty hard to find out what breaker to turn off to identify the  problem and safely fix it.. .. The alternative is to shut of the whole house.. but that still doesn’t tell us what  breaker its on

And that’s a story of its own.

We’e been living here for over 44 years.. and we’ve never had a complete map of the breakers.. SSome are labeled, some are not.. and to make thigs mode mysterious, 2 more breaker boxes were added during our renovations in 1995. One in the basement.. and one in the barn.. and.. believe it or not, none of them are reliably labeled What I mean by ’reliably labeled’ is that some.. actually many of the preachers have labels.. but many are scratched off or duplicated.. and many more are not labeled at all.. They’ve always been a mystery… (I know it sounds lame to imply that the previous owners .. or their.. or for that matter our .. electricians did something wrong when that was 45 years ago… but.. that’s the situation a

as we’ve fixed stuff, we’ve added our own

labels.. but its still not complete.

anyway.. back to the issue at hand.. today we started to label all the breakers by turning them off one at a time and looking for what switched off.. in the hopes that we could complete the labeling.. and hopefully identify our faulty mystery circuit…

while we did get much of the house (finally) labeled.. we were not able to locate our culprit.. still t was a fun way to spend an hour before work !

not as much fun as it sounds

nite all. Nite sam-me