{"id":1288,"date":"2009-09-21T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/21\/sunday-night-amy-and-allison\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T08:44:00","slug":"sunday-night-amy-and-allison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/21\/sunday-night-amy-and-allison\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – Amy and Allison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t Yikes !.. 1 AM already and it’s a school\/work night. I can’t afford to write much.. but lots happened today.. I’ll make it brief.

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Around 11, Diane, Amy. the dogs and I hiked up Bolton Mountain. It was a gorgeous day. The conversation was so much fun (what we want to be when we all grow up) that we made the summit in record time. We made a quick stop in the staff warming hut at the top. I wanted to show Amy some of the Sam graffiti. The place had been newly repainted.. so most of it was gone. But I still found a bit of Sam There. We left another SamStone there just to make the place a bit more homey. <\/div>\n

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Then we climbed the rickety old fire tower. Climbing this tower has become sort of a ritual for me on on Sam’s passing day and on his birthday. It was fun being up there again just for no reason. <\/div>\n

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The view up there is really wonderful !<\/div>\n

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Ooops.. almost forgot the SamStone, Diane brought one up with her. <\/div>\n

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We paused for this self portrait on the way down from the top.. <\/div>\n

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Back at home, Gabe and Dylan were hanging out with Kristinn and Sydney. The girls were goign through Gabes things and dressing up as him.. Here’s\u00a0 slacker Gabe.. <\/div>\n

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.. and nerdy Gabe… <\/div>\n

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.. and snowbord dude Gabe… <\/div>\n

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Around 5:30 folks started showing up for the potluck. First arrival was Fritz on his homemade electric motorcycle. Note that it runs on electric drill batteries !<\/div>\n

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THe food started piling up.. here’s a loaf of bread that Diane made in our earth oven, and a loaf that Gary had made in\u00a0 his solar oven .\u00a0\u00a0 How green can you get ?!?<\/div>\n

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It was a great party.. not too big, not too small.. and lots of good food. <\/p>\n
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Then it was time to start making SamStones. With Jen’s help, we made a new mold to make 2 additional URL stamps for the back of the stones. I used Woods metal,\u00a0 a low melting point alloy of Bismuth to cast the new stamps. <\/p>\n

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We made a ton of stones tonight.. more than 50 pounds of samstones tonight. Quite an accomplishment !<\/div>\n

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Allison (the Nurse from the Colany) and\u00a0 her friend Samantha showed up around 8. . She’s a great friend of ours..\u00a0 It was so very cool to see her\u00a0 walk into our house !<\/div>\n

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Here we are showing Amy and Alison all of our pictures.. including the ones\u00a0 in Sams room. I’m proud of all my kids… <\/div>\n

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The rest of the evening we hung out talking abotu the colony experience, and tlaking about\/calling our other freinds. It was great to have other folks to talk about it again !.<\/div>\n

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Sround 11, Gabe convinced us all to go outside and launch a hot air balloon . The air was still and cool. just perfect for launching. The baloon when up several hundered feet.. then we all saw a huge shooting star cross under the balloon. It was magical !<\/div>\n

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OK.. too tired to keep typing.. so I’lll end there.. have a good night my friends . Good night Sam
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