Cool set of contrasts today.. or are they really contrasts. We had our first work day at Burlington generator makerspace today.. through the course of the day we had about 20 volunteers show up to help us create a public makerspace for northwestern Vermont.
Most of the day was spent painting the crumbling green walls of the memorial annex and building the 50 square foot cubicals that will be our beginning studio space.. It was really great working with everyone today.. There were so many folks that I did not know.. it continues to amaze me that I can still be meeting new makers in such a small state after being at it so long. It gives me hope that there will be great creativity, fellowship and economic good that comes from getting more of us together at a place like generator.
YOu can get a feel for the whole day by watching this timelapse I took.. note the painting and building !
generator setup from john cohn on Vimeo.
It felt good to be helping transform this space.. As I recounted several times.. I have many memories of this room.. it’s where we held the dinner after sam’s memorial .. (you can still check out the wonderful music from that service here)
There aint nothing folks wont do for Pizza !
I finally got to meet Matt.. who i’d corresponded with before. He had Physics equations tattooed on his arm. How cool is that ?!?!?!
Gerneator duty took longer than expected today, so I didn’t get home until 3.. but there was still time for a quick snowshoe in the woods with dian and the dogs.. We were enjoying the nearly 20 degree weather.. almost 4 degrees warmer than yesterday !.. Check out the beutiful sunset…
The sunset even followed us home !
The big event for the evening was about bout building and burning. Chris was having another of his wonderful burns.. This one was Old Man Winter. He was sceduled ot burn on the solstice.. but it was the day of the ice storm.. so chris had to call off the burn.. Good thing too, because the new date of today allowed so many more people to come and check it out.. there must have been 100 folks there tonight to see fire danceign and the burn.. What a great spectacle. great company, really great homemade beer.. and great, great fire ! I do love fire.
Here’s chris looking happy before the burn.
Chris announced the beginning of the burn 
First came the fire dancers.. Kim began. 
THen Chris’s friend TIm (?) from Main did some amazing rope dart tricks 
Then poi
Then an amazing and terrifying quad staff 
Finally kima nd Chris approached the man.. kim held out her hand torch and chris blew fire across her to light the man..
He went up like a rocket !
A really amazing day… now to sleep
nite all, nite sam
-me