Rafe and lolo are in town visiting.. sooooo great to see them. Rafe ‘s good friends Richard and Jillian have a place up in danbury.. they visited with them and are now down here hangin out with us. Rafe is one of my oldest and closet friends.. so always lots to talk about Lolo has been here once before.. but never in the spring. She is a great gardener too so  she  enjoyed all of dianes flowers 
We all went for a really long and fun tour of BETA.. it’s always great seeing the place through a friends eyes

 

great seeing these guys !

nite all. nite sam
-me

QUit day.. I worked on the blob controller for Ben.. its’ an interactive sculpture.. kinda hard to explain.. but this display will move pistons to squish a person sized ballon.. make sense ? 

other thign for this weekend.. we opened the pool. neighbor carlee when in and the waters not even 70 degrees !

nite all. nite sam

-me

woke up to a cold morning /… which is still nice as the heat starts to build

Diane and I have a ritual of watching Stephen Colbert in the morning while we do our stretching.… Not anymore… Today we watched his last video… After 47 had him fired. So stupid. Anyway, we get most of our news from the comics because they have a really good perspective. The Colbert farewell show was such a great outpouring of love and humor… It’s really cool to see him leaving with his head held high. We really enjoyed it and we really appreciate all he’s done for our understanding of the world.

 

 

we’re going to miss that show so much

headed inside a little sad.. this pictuer of Nava helping Gabe with his thesis cheered me up 🙂 

we got another doggie fix by taking our next door doggie freind Oaklee on a walk up bamforth ridge towards the window

having lots of fun at work.. doing some fn sceince.. and still some dd jobs.. like this

I’m helping my friend Thom revive the old Babirusa flow container. The electronic lock on the door ran out of batteries so no one could get in… So I had to pick the lock. one of my most useful hidden skills . Glad I still have that in me. 🙂 

Nite all, nite sam
-me

the roads are gettign paved and painted near work.. I came across this pile of the glass reflective beads rhey use in the paint.. check out what they do in the sun.. i couldnt believe whata. cool efect it was !I

this afternoon.. richmond had a parade for the 4 olympic medalists that came from here or from nearby towns.. It was so cute and fun.. so many people came out..
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we did soem research.. and VT had by far the highest number of medals per capita in the us.. and richmond and our nearby towns .. must have the highest number of olympians  per capita.. than …..

anywhere maybe ? 

nite all. nite sam
-me