Long complicated day at work… But strangely fine. At Six Diane are young friend Finn And I climbed up Bolton. Finn had never been up that mountain before… So it was fun. We hiked up in a thick fog. It was actually cold enough at the top that we needed jackets. Hard to believe that it was in the 90s just last week and will be again this week

The three of us cooked macaroni and cheese on my old gas stove up there. Nothing taste better than eating outside like that

Came home in time (I had hoped) to watch our friend Keating and his first episode on “forged by fire”… Unfortunately you need to be a history channel subscriber to be able to watch the new shows. So hopefully I’ll be able to find it recorded later in the week. Keaton is a gifted maker… I’ve watched his videos about making knives before. He’s an amazing guy. Please tune in if you can

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

The heat has broken!… Today was cool fish and dry… By cool it was only in the mid 80s. But it felt like fall.… By this afternoon it was in the mid 70s and beautiful. Diane did yoga outside… She asked us each to say what was really really cool… It occurred to me that having cool weather was really really cool… In every sense

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Congratulations to Gabriel for passing his PhD qualifiers today in very good form.…

Anybody who’s ever done a PhD knows what a hurdle qualifiers can be.It’s the hardest you ever have to study in your life.. But it pays off. The stuff you study on the way to your quals sticks with you for the rest of your life.…

gabe

I’m really proud of all you are learning and How hard you are working. awesome job ! We love you !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Man… This is the dog days of summer..It was 92 here today… It’s still almost 80° in our house.… That’s why I’m sleeping over in the yoga space nestled up against our air conditioner.

I spent almost all of the day in this air-conditioned space… Other than a couple of doggy walks… And a run Diane . It was actually pretty satisfying. I got a lot done. ‘Diane and I filled out our absentee ballots which was really fun doing our civic duty at home.

Out friends Josh and Chess have just moved back to Vermont and they came by for a little bit. We were able to catch up with them in a socially distant way..

We got to watch from air condition coolness as our friends Aaron and Ashley’s daughter her in the head in the backyard. I didn’t invite her out there in that heat.… Later in the day we watched some huge vultures looking through what tasty bits might’ve been exposed by the Haying

Late in the day I was surprised to see this beautiful grasshopper on the window. It’s so cool Getting to look at him so closeLu

Then we took a nice walk with the dogs to see flipping flappy… Tim and Marie were there feeding them which was a treat. Diane brought some oats for them to eat as well

It’s almost 2 AM… I spent a lot of time working with my brother today on a project. So much fun!

Now I got a sleep.

Gabe takes his PhD Quals tomorrow… Wish him luck.

Night all, night Sam

-me