About 1130 on a slushy New Year’s eve… Diane and I are home and ready for bed. I think I have Taxi duty for gabe and raya at 2 AM so trying to get a little sleep… And have an event full year… Looking forward to the next one

Today was fun and slow… We took a hike with the dogs around Libbey’s Lookout

We had a downtown around 6 PM. Gabe was performing with Circ de Fuego And we had to get them down for 645 call. We were down there also to check out the new highlight New Year’s eve festival that Is replacing the old first night. It was a great time. We basically hung out at the waterfront and checked out all the stuff at the Echo Center.

The Cirque de Fuego show Was really excellent. Chris and Kim do such a great job at organizing these things. Gabe was lead safety And did Fire blowing. He was in great form. Check out some of these pics

Right after the fire show came fireworks… They were great. It was good they got them in because it was starting to rain.

Hey soon as we could we went to Ecco to get out of the rain. It was a great scene. There was lots of great art and a ton of people dancing talking… I was very happy to be there

Jacket brought wasters again… It felt funny eating oysters in an aquarium

I had fun trying to photograph the fish with reflections of our LED headbands

Now it’s time for a few hours of sleep before I have to go pick up the kids downtown. I hope everybody’s having a good end of the year… Let’s make next year fun and interesting

Night all night Sam

-me

As promised.. here are some more pictures from the S’morestice at camp meade yesterday .. 

 

freinds pelch, alan. russ. jerry. newt , duane. john all did such ana amzing job o this festival !

 

My job was simple.. just make fire.. something I love doing !. 

my car looked a bit like armegeden.. I had three full propane tanks and came hoem with three empties. 

rocking my light up tie that max gave me 

i’d never been to camp meade// but you could tell this was Russ’s work. it really looked like a village !

first job was setup.. where do you put a 15 foot column of flame…hmmm.. under a tree ? no..

 

inside the smore prep was well underway.. note the snazy s

more hats 

 

my friend Seth and his friends were there.. and were HUGE helps to us. They helped with setup and safety.. it was so good catching up with Seth.. 

 

my freinds james and matt were next to me.. they had a very nice hand upperated poofer called ‘yankmy chain’ .. the crowds really loved it. .. james was ery helpful to me in the design and build of our new electric poofer. 

 

I started out  with my reubens tube and played a few sets of music through the fire. 

 

then I sparekd up my new poofer. it’s really got a nice flame..  .. the crowd seemed to really like it.. its a nice way to keep warm on a very cold night. you can feel the heat at 20 feet. 

 

here’s our burning man freind aron and his freind mary.. check out her bling !

 

I ran into SO many folks I knew from all over.. here’s my good freind Ann.  one of VT’s best sceince teacher.. and the mayer of our capital city Montpellior. 

 

folks really loved both of our flame toys.. 

 

then came the making of the worlds largest smore..

 

jacks son Graham.. (as in graham cracker !).. shared soem of his smore with me.. 

then  jack was there handing out freshly shucked oysters !// interesting taste combo ! smores and oysters.. not bad.. but defintely bending the taste vectors 

then it was tiem for circuus Feugo lead by our freind Chris and Kim.. and a troup of 6 or so folks including Gabe !

 

 

 

 

gabe did a great fire breathign set with Chris.. He’s really good !  bpth he and max are really getting in to fire.. where’d they get that ? 

then it was tiem to burn the maze.. .. it took a whole to catch.. but it was a beutiful burn 

 

after 

 

we got out of there about 830.. cold and happy.. we stopped in Waterbury with raya and her family for dinner.. then home to sleep

 

this morning I began by throwing a few of ou r Haikube dice (they’re for writing haiku).. I got “Wild Gorgeous Science ” how cool and appropriate !

 

mid afternoon, my good friend Scott and 12 of his family members came by. they live in Norewich.. .. but I know him from Prague and Munich. Scott and fam  were in burlington for the weekend. It was so fun meeting ther. 

we did soem ‘wild gorgeous sceince’.. and plaed with veremin 

 

 

and finished off the last of my propane tank 

 

 

all the while diane and gabe were climbing Camels hump again !.. here they are on top fo the mountain !

 

 

then dinner at tap house so we could bug raya..

 

now tiem for sleep..

 

last full night of 2018.. 

how’s that feel ? … feels ok to me !

 

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

Just back from a wonderful festival I can’t meet in Middlesex. It was the S’morestice! Organize by a bunch of my friends… It was hopefully the first of an annual tradition to make the worlds largest s’more in Middlesex. The event tonight was just absolutely incredible. There were fire affects (including mine) fire dancers (Including gabe)music, some more making… There must’ve been more than 500 people there tonight. I have so many pictures but it will take me a couple of hours tomorrow to go through them to post. Just want to say it was a fabulous time. I want to thank my friends Pelch, Russ, Alan, john, Jon, Jerry For putting this together… And a huge thanks to Diane for helping me with set up and proud safety…I will include one picture… My friend Anne Watson, the states coolest science teacher And the mayor of our capital… Got this great shot of the two of us next to my flame thrower

Now that’s a great way to spend a chilly evening.

Much more tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Funny day… I started off nice and slow with Joe and Pat here. The weather was terrible so we got some extra time to hang out with them which was really nice. It was great seeing them.

After they left Diane and I went into town. She went to yoga and I went to the hardware store then we met up and She help me make the final choice on my new glasses. I’ll get them in about three weeks… Which will be great because then I’ll be able to see you again.

This afternoon gabe and I worked a little bit more on the Propane poofer For tomorrow’s s’morestice in Middlesex.

Around 7 o’clock our friend james from Boston him up and he and I worked for several hours to try to add some new features to the pool for… Long story short none of them worked. So I’m back to basic operations. Interesting lesson un ambition. Nonetheless it’s still a very cool effect and hopefully will be fun tomorrow.

OK… Got to get some sleep.

More tomorrow

Night all, night sam.

– me