Friday night – bean cake

December 28, 2012 johncohn Leave a comment

Greetings from the boat in Brooklyn. We drove down today to a) take max home and b) to go to a Phish show at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. Despite our intentions to leave around 9… We finally left jonesville around noon. .. That turned out to work well because we had to intercept raya and her mom on their way up from Philadelphia. We met them around 3 and headed down into the city. It was an easy drive.. Not much noteworthy, but we did happen to see a car with a friends name on its license plate

We made it down to the boat around 8 .. First step was to show raya around the boat

Then we took an abortive walk out to our favorite restaurant which turned out to be closed :-(… So we went and found ben at his new studio…

Then back forma late night (11pm) pesto and bean cake dinner… Now heading off to sleep.
More tomorrow from afloat

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Thursday night – dog chocolates

December 27, 2012 johncohn Leave a comment

Very lazy day watching the snow fall today.. We got somewhere between 18 inches and two feet of fluffy snow. I just love the snow and the quiet and clean it brings to everything. Diane and i went out on cross country skis with the dogs this morning to enjoy the powder.. Gabe went to smugs .. The roads were so bad that it took 2 hours to get there !
I just lazed around the house and worked on a couple of projects. One thing im pleased to report is that i finished the innards for a musical project im doing for a friend. It involved designing custom circuit boards and a bunch of pretty fancy embedded arduino code. I finished populating the 6 boards and testing the code today. There’s something very satisfying about making a bunch of uniform doohickeys from scratch .on the left you see the breadboarded prototype.

I also worked on a project I’m doing for work involving traffic prediction in a town in france.. Im coding in python which i love doing. Its kind of fun getting to know a towns roads that i haven’t visited in almost 30 years
A croissant for the person who can recognize this city by this map.

The big news fro the day was that we all came hoe to find that one or both of the dogs had gotten into a Christmas stocking and eaten 16 nice pieces of chocolate candy. That was pretty strange…since they never touch our food without our permission.. The temptation must have been just too much. What a mess.. I know that chocolate isn’t good for dogs.. But so far, so good. They’re both about 60 pounds so they’d have to eat more than that to do themselves real harm.. But I’m guessing their tummies will be off for a few days.

Ok.. Thats it for the day.. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Wednesday night – boxing day

December 26, 2012 johncohn Leave a comment

In England, the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day. I’ve never really been sure why. I think it was traditionally the day that you went and visited your relatives… Once i heard that it was called boxing day because thats the day you took unwanted gift boxes back to the stores for exchange.. But that doesn’t sound plausible , .. This is what i was thinking about as i broke down all the cardboard boxes left-over from our celebration this week. Could that be it ?!
Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Tuesday night – xmaster

December 26, 2012 johncohn Leave a comment

Wonderful xmas day… I know it was wonderful, because I’m still in my jammies and it’s almost midnight.
Diane and I woke early, but our little darlings didn’t rise and shine until noon.. We spent from noon until about 5 lounging around, eating, opening gifts and hanging out.breakfast was at 2 pm. the last gift was unwrapped about 5.. and we finally stepped out of the house for the first time around 8 PM

max and jac made their own apple pie flavored moonshine…

the boys got me hookers and strippers…

by 2 pm the dogs were tired out..

grandma and granpa scored with a new head for Gabe’s lacross stick

a four way maple toast to celebrate the end of the day.

gabre is really like chemestry.. so he got lots of marginally safe pyrotechnic chemicals..

we then strung stale bagels and doughnuts on hemp cord..

We got outside for the first time at 8PM.. We drove down to the catamount trail and hiked up in the woods to decorate a tree for the animals it’s something we’ve done every year with the kids..

There was an almost full moon out.. we didn’t even need flashlights. A bright Jupiter was right next to the moon.. so beautiful !

the moon was so bright hat we even cast shadows !

one by one we hung the stale baked goods in the tree…

then spread grain and nuts..

they looked pretty cool in the flash !

we put a samstone on the tree as we do every year now

a lovely, slow and lazy day… lots of love..some sadness mixed in .. .

our hearts were full today

we hope yours was too…

nite all, nite sam

-me

Cohn-zone

Friday night – bean cake

Thursday night – dog chocolates

Wednesday night – boxing day

Tuesday night – xmaster

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