As a reminder.. I’m workign to fill in a two mointh gp I took in blogginbg after I got stuck trying to docuemnt oure trip to spain. I’m goign through workign with my memory, pohotos and calander to recall each day and record it here..
SOemtimes,. liek today its a bit hazy what I was doing.. From these pictures it looks like I spoke with my freind Andrea in Germany, admired some art and a new panini press in our St Albans lab.. Repaired the Eel 25 foot keyboard in freind Mikes basement .. and admired Dianes glow in the dark petunias at night
A busy day for a Sunday. Diane and I took a quick hike up Bamforth to get soem exercise
went back in to help at the 2nd day of the Green Mountain Feilddays. .. Mostly hiung out at the STEM fair.. It was great to see so many families !
Mid afternoon we headed over to Yate orchard in monkton to introduce Sho to the Dreamy . Its maple soft serve icecream served over a hot cider donut. Only served during apple picking season. Yum !
later that night we all went to Tim and Jen’s for dinner. We brought Jen a piece of drift wood we’d found at the bolton dam last night. We’re sure she’s goign to make it into soemthing beautiful .
Today was busy and awesome.. Most of the day was deicated to the Green Mountain Aviation Days.. BETA is the main sponsor of the event that was coordinated by my friend Zip and his wife.the feild days was not an airshow, but had zillions (liek a hundred) differnet types of airplanes for folks to see. Check out these pics.
The BETA MTX hanger was set up as a STEM festival with representatives from ECHO, FIRST Robotics, the Drone club, and companies like Onlogic, Wasted, .. I helped out wiht the BETA/ECHO electricity generation demo that Melissa and I had helped with
there were also bands and food trucks. The BTV airport had created a temporary security fence so the event could be held out on the runway apron. It was amazing !!!!
COngrats to Zip and Vicki and all the folks who helped make this happen. I learned later that they’d had over 8000 people attend in the two days the field days ran !
Around 4 I headed home to pcik up diane and sho.. . We headed to Barre to see an anual fire show id’ always wanted to attend called Rock Art. We stopped at the bolton dam on the way in to show sho (soshoshosho)
I say Rockart its annual… but eveidently this is the last one they are doing after running this for 14 years.
The setupo for the evening was great. It was on the feilds of a big farm on hill just outside of Barre.. THere was live music until the sun went down..
THen came the iron pour. I’ve done iron pours before (see here and here) buit this was differnt. They had a blkast furnace fulkl of melted iron.. THey’d take a ladel of melted metal ourt and through it at a plywood wall. It soends weird.. but it was amazing to watch !
Then came the fire spinners.. which is somethign we see all the time.. these folks were good !
Then we lined up in groups for a couple of mile walk throighh the forest.. it was all lit with candleitas ..with stations where you could see short skits, music, art.. very, very cool !
My freind of freind antoinette was there with her fire organ. We’d agreed to meet for a second tonight.. I got to introduce myslef and see her play her instrument.. it made earie sounds when you placewd a flame underneath the tubes.. SUper coolk
Today is friday the 13th.. supposedly an unlucky day.. but it came and went in peacefully .. so no complaints ! First thing is that I took Sarah Ann to her authentic movement friend in SHelbourne It was fun driving around with Sarah Ann. .. Sarah ann and her friend are going down to an Authentic Movement weekend retreat in Bomoseen (why bomoseen ? no clue).. . Her friend was really nice
Next stop was BETA.. we’re preparing for the Aviation Field Days event this weekend. I’ve been workign with my friend Melissa and Tyler on an exhibit for showing people how much electricity you can generate by riding an exercise bike.
We’re using a bike generator setup we’re borrowing from our friends at ECHO center. .. It uses the bikes output to run an inverter that drives one of theose Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guys ! I tehn did a minor hackjob to extract some data from the generator control box.. and then Melissa is writing a very cool Node-Red dashboard to show how much energy eaxch rider generated.. abnd keep a leader board of energy productions for the whole event.
Today we did our first real test of the system.. which goes in to use tomorrow. >> Worked great thanks mostly to Melissa’s node-red magic.
later on that evening.. I met Diane and Sho later for a tour of BETA ..and then dinner
