steer clear | Cohn-zone

Full and fun day.. It began with an eary (for me) morning Jolts and Volts science show for the E21 conference… My friend Mara had gathered school l Librarians from all over the country at champlin college for a packed two days of ‘making’ and exchanging ideas. I wasn’t able to attend yesterday.. but I heard it was great. the librarians toured Generator, made blinking badges and got in all sorts of mischief. Today I was the kick off.. they were a great audience !

I also got to hang around for my friends Jeff and Drrick (from Sparkfun) to hear their awesoem talk on Internet of THings. I got to play around more wiht their open sensor data platform https://data.sparkfun.com/ .. I was a beta tester for it.. t’s simple and secure..very nice job !

i loved this morning.. the only downside was that I dropped and broke my phone. ugh… getting a replacement on monday.. right now it looks pretty cool !

diane and I managed to get a quick hike in this afternoon .. dodging the bugs..

Than around5:30 we headed over to the Lacey’s for their steer roast.. this year it was a benefit put on by Black Fly.. and artist collective which included several of our friends (aaron. mary. joe, connor… )

we saw the first red leaves of fall today as we drove up.. noooooo! not yet !

the centerpiece of the event was one of Chucks steers roasted ona contraption that our friend mark invented.. it was able to roast about 600 lbs of meat at a time.. it swivels in 2 directions to allow the meat to be cooked on both sides. It’s really brilliant.