I’ve been super happy with the response to our Alia ornaments.  I had a little stand on our worktable where people could come by and get them. SInce the makerfaire I’ve collected another $500 which will be part of our Toys for Tots donation.

 

By the end of the week all but 3 of the 210 had found their way to someone’s tree.

That’s a happy thought !  🙂 

nite all, nite sam

 

Tonight after work Diane and I went to a memorial service for our friend Firefly (carol)’s husband Tom. He died this week of esophageal cancer. Firefly is on e of our burning man friends. She just showed up one day and started cleaning up the workspaces as we worked on fluffy. She was with us at build week on the Playa this summer. That’s when she told us about  Tom’s illness. 

I never met Tom…. though we got a sense of him though his Obit. 

It was good meeting Carol and Tom’s sons at the memorial. We came on the late side.. many of our troop came through earlier. Its nice how experiences like  burning man.. and projects like Fluffy bring people together. Its kinda like an extended family. I know Firefly felt the love. 

We’ll keep  Firefly and her family in our thoughts.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me

This evening we had a nice small gathering at the house It was for Diane’s ‘boot camp’ group. These wicked strong ladies.. amazons in the truew sense.. . meet at 7 on mondays and thursdays for a hard core outside workout   rain, shine or snow.  Carol is  the fearless leader. They even workout when it’s 8 degrees out. They are a really fun group..

It was so fun getting together and showing them our crazy house !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was the big push to reinstall Fluffy’s clouds in prep for our shwoign at the Burlington New Years Eve festival. DIane and I got there at 8 am and worked with Duane, Rob, Amey and Marie to get the Driver side clouds up. We were able to get them up and workign in 3 and a half hours. A new record. !

 

When we were finished with fluffy, we went up to Generator for their makerfaire.. we were a bit early so we walked up and down Pine street and did a little window shopping. It was cold and windy.. not a soul out.. Kinda fun !

 

We got into generator and check out the wares there.. some really nice stuff. !  Lots of creative people !  Sorry I didn’t get any pics pf their stuff !

Its begininning to feel a lot like xmas !

nite all, nite sam

-me