Woke up in our really nice AirBNB to find that the hot water wasn’t working well. We reached out to the owner, and she could not have been more helpful. It’s a long story, but the owner offered us to swap to a different home she owned .. and guess what…
it was directly across the street from max and Becky’s.. !. She and her husband live in Texas .. but have the home here for retirement. They know max and becky well .  It’s a fantastic place and could not have been more convenient . We are so grateful to the owner for both of her wonderful places.

Once we were settled, we headed out with becky to see where she is taking her classes in sustainable agriculture It’s in an experimental greenhouse dedicated to renewable, low resource food production. She showed us around the permaculture experiments were fish generate nitrogenous waste which  is used to  fertilize plants, whcih generate material to help feed the fish. She also showed us several low resource hydroponic setups.   It was so cool !  Max joined us for the look around.

Later in the afternoon Max came home and we took Violet to the dog park. It was a beutiful evening. We got to see the near conjunction of Venus and Jupiter

We went home and got take out food and looked at maxs wonderful pictures from his recent trip to Vietnam with  Abbot and Mason

What an adventure !

nite all, nite sam !

-me

DIane and I woke up at 3:30AM and headed to the airport for our trip to Santa Fe. Heading to a plane this morning brought back so many memories  of early morning flights.. I don’t really miss that 🙂 

 

The flight out was uneventful. Great time to catch up on email and other stuff. I am soooooo much less busy now.. I get a tiny fraction of the email I once did. I still cant seem to stay on top of it though. 

We got to Albuquerque about noon and caught the  van to Santa Fe. Becky picked us up where the van dropped us.. and we headed to Max and Beckys.  It was great to see Becky. Violet and ‘the girls”..   We got hailed on which was pretty cool !  Look at the variety of colors in the eggs they get !

Max came home about 6 and we headed to Los Portillos for dinner.. Great Sothwestern place… I love the food here so much !

Then home to catch up. ..   

So nice to be here !
nite all, nite sam

-me

today was a bit of a wind down… Everyone is relaxing a bit from the board meeting. At home, we’re getting ready to head out to Santafe. One thing from today.. I got a short movie of the “Pavlov” project plannign tool I built for our team. Our project manager sophia has a button on her desk in North hanger. When we do something good regarding making our project management goals, Sophia can push a. button and this hacked candy machine on Shannon’s desk in D2 releases  some food pellets..  (I can also control it from siri using my watch) It’s the best project management tool since the spreadsheet !/. Here’s our friend Henry getting a demo.  

Wait.. i’m getting hungry.. better go finish a project !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Woke in the spiral  room, because diane’s cough was keeping her and me awake. It was kinda nice waking in the room .. it was our room for many years, then one by one it was used by all three kids. Diane and Sam painted the spiral on the ceiling.. It brought back so many nice memories 

Today was checkup day. Mid last year BETA set up our own Medical clinic. PA Travis and RN Vicki have  a clinic a few blocks away from North Hanger. They offer comprehensive medical services and everyone has been raving about them.   I really like the folks at Thos Chit we use (Jack and GIna) .. and plan to continue to go there.. .. but I decided to get checked out.  Vicky drew blood and travis asked me a bazillion health related questions. They also have a very cool  body mass and strength  testing device.     I really enjoyed working with Vickie and Travis..  I got all the lab results the next day (I’m wiritng this several days later) .. and got a clean bill of health.   All of my blood panesl looked good and my body mass, strength, weight  etc looked good. The only changes Travis suggested was to drink more water, go back to taking soem vitamin D 12 supplements and do a few more triangle pushups to get my muscle mass up a bit. I lreally iked workign with Travis and Vicky..  They even had great music playing the whole time. Turns out that Travis is a big deadhead like me.. we even  both had on our dancing bear socks… 

This is such a great service ! Thank you BETA !

nite all, nite sam

-me