I got home tonight in tiem for yoga.. Diane gave a great and relaxing class.. then inside for cheese and broccoli soup.. yum

its one of my favorite times of the week !

nite all, nite sam
_me

WOke up early and cleaned my shop before work. I have. awork project thats taken me a lonnnnng time to finsh in my shop.. and things were gwetetign preety out of control in there.. jsut had to clean it !

after work, I met Diane and the other Fluffyites at the old Fitness Edge buildign in willisont. Our goal was to get one sirde of the clouds up in prep for the gig on New years eve.. 

the bus was still packed from the time on the playa.. so everythign (!) was covered with playa dust. .. Just touchign that stuff brings back the heat and smell of the playa.. kinda gross and kinda nostalgic.. 

We were able to get all the clouds on the driver side up wirth no big problems.. .. 
IAs I said on Sat.. we’re only able to put clouds on one side if we’re goign to get out o the door here.. no problem.. folks will only see one side of us at the highlight festival 

I’m excited abotu this next show !
nite all, nite sam

-me

We decided to hike the catamoutn trail from bolton notch road to pineo brrook just for fun this morning.. trouble was.. the huge concrete  and steel bridge that used to be there had totally  washed away.. prbably in the jyl floods.. It was pretty maazing.. al that was left were soem huge chunks of concrete and a bunch of twisted and torn steel girders !

we tried to find a way to cross pieo brook but it was too wide and fast to cross safely.. the ice wasnt deep enough to walk on.. we walked up the other way on the catamount trail past a ssmall dam, then crossed the notch road and bushwacked up to one of the freind of boltons beutiful back country trails.. and follwed that back down to the shiugar house.. it was a beutiful hiek on a beutiu l day.. with my beutiful girl !

 

later that afternoon my friend Kasey came over and we mad big progress on the vacuum tube tesla coil where building. we’re almost ready to turn it on !

Nice weekend !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Worked aroudn the houuse thie mornign.. then took a walk wiht the kennys… up to see the new dam. with the new dam,  Gillette pond  is back to its original size.. it looks so great. COngrates tot eh land trust for makign this really happen.. an (and keeping the whole pond from crashing down to our part of town.

A bit later Nate came over to grab soem of the furniture they’d been storing here. Nate and hannah are moving back to richmond.. super nice to have them nearby

Tonight we had a Fluffy team meeting .. the first since burnign man ! ..

I preped by puttign up colorful changing lights inside and out

It was great having everyone here..it had been too long !  Duane got a knew replacement yesterday.. and he was up and helpign today.. pretty amazing !

diane made one of her basque cheescakes.. it was so great !

after dinner we all sat do to talk   about what we learned on this third trip to the playa.. , what worked, what didn’t.. and what we want to do going forward .. Carol zoomed in from florida

All in all it went great. We are going to make minimal changes this year.. and do our best to get out in public more. .. Our next gig is at Hilight on new years eve at the waterfront. THe funny thing is.. where we’re parked now has a door high enough for us.. but only wide enough for oe side of clouds.. Not a terrible thing since no one gets to see the other side anyway.. 


we did a shout out to our friend  Madison Orange.. a DJ hooper, firedancer friend of Duanes  (and now us) who did an excellent set on fluffy out on the playa this year.. 

Glad to all be back together thinkign abut fluffy !
nite all, nite sam
_me