Busy day aroudn the house. Diane is on a mission to get her whole garden in befor3 we head out for Gabes graduation. We dug, mulched, mowed, weed wacked and fertalized, .. all under Diane”s expert gardeners eye
one of the main accomplishments was to find the perfect O-ring to keep our mower gas cap from falling off.. we’d been using rubber bands.. but they quickly fall apart when exposed to gasoline.. I found the perfect replacement neopring oring at the hardware store.. It was nice to celibrate a small victory like that
Speakig of Rings.. I had an unexpected and welcome call from my old freind John S.. I should now say .. Dr. John S. He finished his PhD at Columbia last year.. john and I did many projects together.. the pumpkin king, the eel, stampo.. It had been more than a year that we had talked..
He’s got a startup now based on his PhD research.. and has a great long tiem girlfreind.. he talked about coming up for a visit soemtime this summer.
So nice to be back in touch ! nite all. nite sam -me
We had a nice, uneventful drive home.. its nice time togegther in the car liek that. We made one great stop at a garden nursery down in Addison county. It’s called ‘Between the Weeds’ .. and its aptly named.. the plants are scattered among greenhouses that could use a little repair.. and the grounds are covered in lplong grasses. but the plants are beutiful and healthy..
We took off early today to drive to Endicott. Dianes oler brother steve was driving u from Kansas to see hjis daughter , our nece Elizabeth in NH. He was stopping in Endicott at his and dianes brother Joes for the night.. so we headed down for an impromptu reunion. We had a nice drive down. listign to an AI book on audible. Books on tape’ make the miles slip by so easily. By mid afternoon we were in endioicott and Steve came in soon after. We had a really nice visit with Joe, Pat and Steve. We ate our favorite Romas pizza .. and we grilled speidies for dinner.. it was the quintessential Endicott experience.
My friend Peter Habitz died a couple of weeks back and was buried today at the Hinesburg Village Cemetery . Peter was a good friend from many years of workign together at IBM. Peter was a joyful, energetic and very opinionated person. he was wicked smart.. but still down to earth.. he had a great sense of humor and mischief in at least two languages.. he always whore a bright whute shurt, llong khaki pants and biirkenstoks over white socks.. he drove fast cars.. most of them red if I recall correctly. I remember iobe f tehe last one of the last ties I saw him.. he was out drving around in his red audi with his charming .. (and i once told her ‘pixie-like’) wife Mary Ellen..,.
I vividly remember one of the last times I saw hpweter, he told me that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease.. he was stilll driving.. fast .. and was dtermined to make the best life possible for him and mary ellen while he still could
the gathjerign today was small.. a few relatives, soem neighbors and abotu 15 of us from IBM.. THere were a few prayers at the grave, but mostly nice talks from people who loved peter.. THere were soem very funny stories.. some I couldnt even repeat here.
It was a beutiful ceremony..
After the ceremony all of us old freinds went to the Hinesbugh House Pup and shared memories of peter. even thoguh it was a sad event .. The spirit was good and fun..
thats certainly the way peter would have wanted it !.
