We had a very nice and quiet in the house. I worked on to art projects I’m doing for other people… When is the light sculpture for my friend JOHN… And the other is the revival of a 30 foot keyboard for my friend Mike… Both are fun and engaging.… I also worked on a robot project with my friends Va and Douglas. I have to say I’m happiest when I’m making things 🙂

In keeping with the weeks theme… Diane and I went to Bolton for the fourth straight day… Which is the steepest way up to the tower. It was in the high teens and blowing… And really beautiful.

There is a really nice layer of ice rhyme Upon the tower… You could see the prevailing wind must always be blowing west. Check out the snow pattern

OK… It’s actually the next morning… We’re about to climb Bowden again for the fifth time this week… Hopefully maybe catch a little of the sunrise

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

First day of a vacation week and I really enjoyed having no particular plan… Not just for the day but for the whole week. The only thing that we actually have on our agenda for the week is that ‘Diane and I are climbing Bolton every day…

One thing we got done today was to clean out the closet where I keep my clothes.… May not sound like a big job but I don’t think we had looked in there in a decade. No joke.… It was quite fun…

Few things of note that We found…. A box full of business cards I’ve collected since being at work for 40 years…

Some great paintings at the kids did when they were young,

some x-rays of chai’s stomach when she swallowed a rock… Maybe for the third time

My old HP 25 calculator from high school (wow!)

Today I have three electronics projects I hope to get to… And if I don’t…

Who cares :-)

Nite all, nite sam

-me

The last three days thinking of Sam has been hard, fun, sad… A little of everything.

Thanks to everyone who came to the toast for Sam last night… It was really special for us. Hope you enjoyed it as well

I’m now easing into Thanksgiving week… And like everyone else it’s going to be a different kind of week and we’ve ever had. I’m taking the whole week off and just trying to devote myself to projects around the house And in my shop.… I’ve got lots of cool things going and I’m looking forward to just kind of bathing in that

One thing we’re doing this week is climbing Bolton Every day. No particular reason… we started yesterday with our Sam hike… And decided to keep it going. I just am enjoying the exercise of hiking up that mountain is often as we can.… It’s also the only way to safely get in the woods during Hunting season

This morning we took off around 8 AM and took the lift line up wilderness. The last bit was a very steep scramble. Really nice



Tomorrow in the next couple of days rain or snow… Let us know if you’re heading up there too. You may see us

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Today is the day we mark Sams passing .

It’s the day he helped save the lives of 4 people through the organs he donated from his strong body

Please support organ donation in any way you can

It’s a day we usually mark with a hike up Bolton and a potluck here at home . This year we had to adapt to the covid restrictions .

First summer came by to give us some new sam stickers

Diane , Kyle and went up to hike Bolton . There we ran in to Krista, Caroline and (surprisingly) my old friend Jeff from Colorado who’s now friends with Krista . We had a really nice socially distanced hike up.

We called the boys and set off some smoke bombs

No potluck today.. but we did the next best thing .. we had a zoom call to toast sam. We had 73 folks dial in . It was so nice seeing everyone

Shawn had pulled together all his Sam stuff to share

 

Jill played and sang for us.. a really beautiful song 

we even had some furry friends 

We looked at pictures of Sam… Watched a couple of movies (I’ll post them)… And heard stories for everybody.

It was supposed to have lasted half an hour… And lasted an hour and a half. We were happy, grateful and tired …. It was a fun challenge trying to keep that many people engaged and talking on a zoom call

Thank you everyone for coming. I think it’s so good to come together to remember someone we love… And remember that we love each other

Thank you Sam for bringing us together again and again

Nite all, nite Sam

-me