Today is my wonderful wife, partner, friend, loves , mother of our kids.. birthday ..  She is wise, and beutiful and kind.. and i’m so happy to be her partner in life  And I’m so happy to be able to spend this daywith her. We woke up to a lovely full dishwasher from last night yoga/birthday party.

We decided to hike the catamount Trail/Honey Hollow Loop. It’s one of our favorite hikes. It’s about 6 miles. A steep uphill, followed by a steep downhill, but really beautiful and really familiar. A nice thing about it this time of year is that all the ground is kind of mushy and this keeps us off of any sensitive trails. Today was the first day we’ve been out hiking in a while it didn’t have snow. But there was plenty of piles of it sitting around. A wonderful hike… We ran into some other dogs, my mom called to wish Diane happy birthday and we got ourselves some exercise.

 

This afternoon we met up with Tim and Jen and Deb and went to an early dinner at one of our favorite places, single pebble. It was really lovely… We went because we had tickets for the  Chris Thiele show tonight at the Flynn. 

It was such a fantastic show. It was just Chris and his mandolin a chair and a glass of water. He was amazing. He played Bluegrass (he was the founder of nickel Creek) some amazing Bach… I had never known how accomplished a classical musician he was but if you read up on him, he’s considered one of the worlds classical virtuosos on mandolin . He told lots of fun stories and there was a whole lot of great music and a whole lot of heart.…

 it was a great way to celebrate  Diane’s birthday !

Happy birthday my love.. I love you so much 

nite all, nite sam

-me

We got pictures today from Ben, gizzo and rebar… They’ve been working on this project called the golden shower… It ppokes fun at the golden dome project that you know who is trying to get funded for $4 trillion. The basic idea is its Mr T stating in a kitty pool holding a golden dome that float holes as missiles come in and squirt water on getting him all wet. Ben has a permit to have this piece of art in front of the White House for three days. Gizzo and rebar been working on it furiously for the last couple of weeks and it really came out well.… There was a lot of news coverage about this. It’s a serious story saying that spending that much money on a solution that really won’t make the world safer when we could be spending some of that money for education, healthcare, and all the other things this country needs.

Tonight we had normal Tuesday night yoga and we also used it as a small pre-celebration for Diane’s birthday, which is tomorrow. We had a full house and we ate cake and ice cream and saying happy birthday to our favorite girl.… Do I know it does so much for everybody… It’s nice to see how much she is by everyone.… Even though she doesn’t like to be in the spotlight.

shes a wonderful person 1 I love you my girl !

as I always say.. Nothing says love like a full dishwasher !

happy almost birthday my love !

nite all. nite sam
-me

I’ve been working at NorthHanger and parking is gettign to be impossible. We are able to park at lot c but thats a real hike to get to work.. so out of laziness.. i’m now parking at (and paying for) airport parking.. 

its like a tiny pay cut, but its worth it !

nite all, nite sam
-me

We’re getting close to the time when we take Nova over to be with Gabe.. 
Every trip starts with the first step.. Our first step step is to sort doggie toys !

nite all. nite sam
-me