{"id":314,"date":"2008-07-27T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/07\/27\/saturday-night-repair\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T09:16:00","slug":"saturday-night-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/07\/27\/saturday-night-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_418452228\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I am victorious&#8230; Our lawn mower was conspiring to take the day off. but we would have none of it. A couple of weeks back the cable that controls the power drive to our mower snapped. I did an emergency cablectmy and fixed it with two plastic tiewraps.. A couple of days ago the kill switch cable mount broke.. ad I countered with a clamp to allow us to pull the cable. This morning the whole assembly that holds the kill switch broke off.. I had to create a multi-part steel contraption to tension the cable in order to get spark to start the mower. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608004.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>   That worked beautifully.. Nicholas offered to use it to cut the grass  which was about 4&#8243; high at this point.. Unfortunately on the first pull,. the starter rope snapped. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608005.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>mama mia !&#8230; Nicholas decided to go with it anyway and managed to cut more than half f the lawn without letting the mower stall. All this while  Dian. Chai. Satori and I ran up Honey Hollow. <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Shortly after we got back, my friend Chris dropped by on his way to cut wood up in Honey Hollow. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608008.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>He dropped off some new SamStones he&#8217;d sandblasted for us !..   He and his family just came back from a cross country oddessy where they dropped SamStones at places like Mt. Rushmore and the Cascade mountains. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608006.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I spent some time of the mid afternoon working with Gabe and Trevor on shooting trampoline movies.We put blue tarps around the tramp and filmed s we could chrom key tings out.. Here&#8217;s what we came up with .<\/p>\n<p>Late in the afternoon. Tom. Aton and Selean came by<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Sleena brought us the most amazing surprise.. This week she&#8217;d gone woth her mom down to Boston to see Ama.. the Indian guru  AMA&#8230; Ama is famous for hugging people&#8230; We were only 30 minutes from her ashram in kerala last fall.. Meanwhle we keep hearing what an amazing presense she has. <br \/>Anyway&#8230; Sleena asked Ama to bless a SamStone for us..here it is !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608009.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">The kids all decided to go tube the hintington.. The water was way up which made the tubign much easier.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">later in the afternoon, Gabe and trevor went up to Ian and Matt&#8217;s  .while we wne tto Owleshead to a party thrown by Pat and Larry.. It was eally nice.. great food and great company !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608020.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608032.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">We even had some fireworks !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Beleive it or not.. it started raining.. who would have thought hrain in vermont during the summer :-)\/ I actually got a little cold.. so Krista wrapped my head in her scarf.. it really helped.. and it made me feel&#8230; well.. Sheek (ugh) &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608023.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Great party.. great setting&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul2608\/jul2608040.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">OK sleep beckons.. More tomorrow. Nite all. Nite Sam<br \/>-me<\/div>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am victorious&#8230; Our lawn mower was conspiring to take the day off. but we would have none of it. A couple of weeks back the cable that controls the power drive to our mower snapped. I did an emergency cablectmy and fixed it with two plastic tiewraps.. 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