Our good friends Linda and David got here mid afternoon bearing Pizza from Eindicott. THey’re up for new years with their dog Willa.. Its so nice ot have them and cute little willa here.. We hung out, took a great walk and began planning our trip to Italy. which we’re takign next September.  We’re going to go track down Linda and Dianes Italian roots. We spent soem fun time on genology sites looking for lindas relatives. For diane, we had the wonderful books that DIane’s brother Steve has made that outlines all of Dianes family tree. We’re getting really excited about this trip !

 

Getting ready to close out the year !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Todays the day that all the kids head back out west. Diane woke up early and took Max and Becky to their plane.. Then I took Gabe to his plane aroudn noon.

It’s been so great hanging out with Max, Beck and Gabe.. We missed having Sammantha here.. and as always missed our Sam. 

 

WHile I was at the airport, I stoped at Beta to give my friend Denise and her Son Luke and Lukes gf Chip a tour of Beta.. That was fun !

 

We’d ordered a pelican case for Gabe’s microscope.. so I spent some time customize it to protect Gabe’s scope.   It came out well !

Gettign ready for new years !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Finn spent the night here because it was easier than driving him back to Hinesburg. So we had a nice breakfast and took a few pictures with the FLIR thermal camera I built. 

 

Gabe went off to Bolton.  while we went off with  Max and Becky to see Max’s freidn Johs in Ferrisburg. Josh is a ligthing guy for Trombone Shorty and travels most of the time. When hes’ not traveling , he and his wife Jess live in a cool place back in the woods with 4 goats, ducks, chickens, two dogs and a cat.. We loved hanging out with all the animals . We then head from there back to waterbury (about an hour) for dinner at the Reservoir. 

Full day.. enjoyign the slow pace !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Another great vacation day.   Gabe and I headed over to Chris’s to help him with the Champ he’s building for the new years burn. He’s building as much of it as he can inside to keep it dry.. Chris and Kim’s living room had transformed into a wood shop. . Chris and Mat worked on the structure while  I cut shingles down to scale width  and Gabe cut them into the pointy shape of scales. 

 

On the way home I picked up Finn and brought him back to the house. I worked wtih hom to move all the games on his Switch to a bigger SD card… then  we took advantage of the snow to do some sledding on the back yard hill. It’s fun remembering that this sledding hill only exists because a neighbors truck accidentally came down the hill through the trees. Our neighbors have kept it clear for sledding ever since. 

Dinner was grilled cheese sandwiches then all of us.. Max,, Becky, Gabe. Finn, Diane and I headed over to Krista to see Austin burn his own dinosaur sculpture. Max, Gabe , Diane and I got to help se the thing up so it balanced (more or less)   It was a beautiful burn !

Then home for more video games !

Now THAT feels like a vacation !

nite all, nite sam

-me