Today our wonderful son Maxwell turns 38 years old.. he’s such awesome  person.. super smart.. very loving and fun. .. and .. about to become a dad !!!!!  He’s the guy who made me a dad 38 years ago.. and i’m so glad he did !


Diane and I had fun making a birthday video… We went to several different places and sang all 4 stanzas  of happy birthday at each then stiched 5 together to make this (sorry bout our singing 🙂 

I had so much material with all those additional stanzas and places, I couldn’t just leave them on the cutting room floor… so my biddy claude and I maade a mixmax mix .. 

diane climbed camels hump with rachel ad oaklee and shee wore her wild things max shirt n honor of maxs birthday !

the rest of the day was fun at work.. after work, alex. jack and john loud and chris feloney came by for a tour of beta.. always good fun !

Happy brithday again Maxwell. We love you so much !

see you soon in Santa Fe !!!

nite all, nite sam
-me

Such a beautiful evening.. we had potluck dinner outside after yoga

love this part of summer !

 

nite all. nite sam
-me

Weve been having so much fun with our neighbeors AJ. Alex and Carlee’s dog Oaklee.. They have begun lettign us take Oaklee for walks and runs. which we knwo she loves.. shes a bundle of really fun energy !

We let our asparagus go to seed.. and now its a jungle.. Gabe tells us in germany they use the word Asparagus Tarzan (Spargeltarzan) to talk about somone who’s tall and skinny. here’s our Spargeltarzan !

The fireflies tonight were amazing.. must be the weather. 

hard to catch with a camera though 

Dianes glow in the dark petunias are easy to capture on camera !

Happy blinky night !

nite all, nite sam
-me

at 9am I arrived at the Saint Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne for the funeral service for my friend Bernard… He was an amazing guy. I respected hi so much … A professional musician who got a full ride at Julliard, a commercial airline pilot who then went back and got a PhD and a field he invented, which is pilot psychology. He was an amazing bicyclist and artist… when he left beta a few weeks later, he developed pancreatic cancer and he’s had a really amazing year of being with his family, riding bikes, etc., until it all caught up with him. A good friend rebar/Aaron has been with Bernard and his family all through the way I have so much respect for him.

Immediately after Bernard’s mass, I drove back to Richmond to the congregational church for the memorial service for a good friend Gina… Gina was a funny and fun lady… She was always smiling cracking jokes laughing… And this spirit of her memorial service was that. There were some great stories told and the mood was both sad and joyful.

Gina had requested that everyone wear flowery clothes and that they would have a garden party after the memorial service. We all were there in our flowery finest. It was great seeing some of our old friends. Here’s Ralf who is getting married.

lots of yummy food downstairs.. then over to the haddocks for the garden party. 

I dont think I took any pictures att the garden party.. it was sweet and upbeat 

Just like Gina wanted it to be

rest in peace my friends.. 
you are both incredible people!

 

nite all. nite sam
-me