Re the title: Not THAT Chipmunk’s Christmas. .. We captured this guy in our attic this morning. .. it’s the first larger anima in a long time.. and not like the 11 flying squirrels we caught this year. We escorted this guy out into the woods with a bunch of food. 

Later on in the day , our friend Andy, the town constable came over to help us on our Parking Advisory work. What a great guy.. quite a character   and a fantastic story teller!

 

Later in the day our friends Dave and Nancy dropped by.. Then we headed out to Duane and Laura’s for a really nice holiday party

Its getting to feel a lot like xmas !

nite all, nite sam

-me

We’re getting really excited for the kids visit this year. We haven’t all been in Vermont for the holidays since 2018 (I think) . DIane has been doing an amazing job getting the house ready and festive. One thing in the plan is to get a christmas tree up and decorated before the kids visit .. so that was the main task for the day. First thing, though.. a quick hike up to teh Duxbury window in the fresh snow.. then a ride over to Puritans to pick out the perfect tree !  

Then comes the decorations… 
What went up first were the redbull cans and garlands we made from all the red bull cans that Sam saved over his life. they have a special meaning to us and have been most of the decorations we’ve used since Sam died. This year we’re digging deep into all the ornaments we’ve collected over the years.    This year we started with birds.  Many on the tree this year haven’t been up since before Sam died.. It feels both good and sad to go through all of these. each ornament tells a story.. all three boys names on them.. brings back such good memories !

nite all, note sam

-me

It definitely feels like things are winding down for the year.. There was a great sweatshirt give away at BETA today for all employees.. such a great place to work.. I worked on a fund thermal camera demo…   Then dinner wiht Finn after his basketball game.. 

Definitely feels like  the year is slowing down..

I love this time of year !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I’d been looking forward to this day. This evening  the 7 core members of the team that built Fluffy for burning man this year met up at Hula for a fascillitated debreif.. It’s been a good 3 months since the playa.. and about 8 months since we began the project. Coco had arrainged for her friend Pete..a. psychotherapist and social worker to facilitate. It was a great session. it was aimed at figuring out what went well.. what could have gone better and what we were going to do going forward. The cool thing is that despite a  ton of struggles and setbacks.. we were all still good friends.. we used the time mostly to plan our approach to next year. The conversations were deep,  personal.. and constructive.  so I don’t feel its right to share them.. but It was fun to see the differnt types of minds and spirits working…

 

I love these folks.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me