Very chill day around here… But figuratively and

Literally… There still snow on the hills above us so we bundled up to hang around outside. On our run yesterday we noticed that they were Nuesky had taken part of the trail we run every day… So today we took a picture of it

I went up the mountain to help our friend Deb move a mattress and took it vantage of the trip to stay in barefoot in the snow… Not sure when the next time I get to do that is… Hopefully not till next winter 🙂

Went back home and ‘Diane and I worked around the yard… As I shoveled mulch I got to listen to our nephew Ben’s med school graduation at UT Health

He starts his residency in neurology in Houston and he’s getting married to his long-term girlfriend sam…

We’re very proud of that boy!

Midway through the graduation gizzo came over to use my welder to patch up some holes in his ‘new’ bus louis. He’s making it into a hoppy camper that sounds pretty sweet !

Glad to have taken this weekend off .. now time for bed !

-jc



It was a beautiful first day of me… It was snowing when we woke up. Deb and Tim both reported about 3 inches of snow. We just had a dusting… But that’s not so unusual for may

Dianne and I took a nice run… The last couple of days of rain has really made everything “sproing”. Everything is turning green… It’s wonderful

May 1 also means Greenup day… When all Vermonters go out with brake clean bags and pick up garbage off the sides of the road

The litter of choice today was definitely twisted tea… Some sort of hard lemonade tea mix. We found probably 20 bottles… Our old friend white Zinfandel and really gotten down to just a couple of bottles. I’m happy for him or her if they reduce their drinking

I still can’t understand how so many people could throw that much stuff out of the window. Also cigarette butts… Literally hundreds of them…

After that we Matt Deb up at Tim’s and we worked on their house for a while. It was fun helping somebody else for their house and getting out of ours!

Being over there Matt hanging out with their strange cats… Skeenin Is a crazy hairless cat… Very affectionate… I was working and the next thing I know he had left from the floor up on my shoulder

It’s really nice to hang out at Tim and jen’s…. Here’s the view from their house

After dinner we all took a walk up to Gillette pond… The recent rains have filled it almost all the way up… Amazing that this is Only a mile from our house

OK… Time for bed. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite am

-me

I’m grateful that it’s Friday… This weeks seem to be getting longer… Not sure why.

Busy workday… Then I went out and got to see my friends Paul and Ellen… And then go by and see Scott. Read a lovely dinner tonight at our friend Gina and Bills … Their friend Bonny is here too. We haven’t seen them in over a year because of Covid and we had a lot to catch up on.

On the drive up to their house we saw this beautiful heron just walking around the pond right off of Route 2.

What are majestic bird!

Nite all, nite sam

-me



This just in…..

Our friend Paul G of Vidoesyncracies is helping us digitise all of our zillions of videos we have from the years. He just sent me the following two gems that came off of a 47 year old 3/4″ video cassette.. the kind used only by broadcast tv stations.. These are from 1974 when I was a 15 year old teenage newscaster on KHTV UHF Channel 39 in Houston texas

for two years I was one of a rotating group of 4 kids who did short 5 minute newscasts .. “News before the hour” in the morning and afternoons during mostly  kids programming  . It was an awesome job.. I got out of school to do it.. got my drivers license early in order to get there an back.. and I was Abel  to read the new wires every day I was there in 1973-74.. I read about the 7 day war, Watergate Nixon’s impeachment , the Vietnam war, patty hurst .  Skylab  all that stuff… directly from news wire..

I love watching these things with my crazy hair.. my Texas accent..

John Cohn teenage newscaster April 1974_Clip 1.mp4 from VIDEOSyncracies on Vimeo.

John Cohn teenage newscaster April 1974_Clip 2.mp4 from VIDEOSyncracies on Vimeo.

I can still see myself in this little kid..

can you ?

nite all, nite sam
-me