{"id":451,"date":"2009-02-26T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/02\/26\/stowe\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T02:10:00","slug":"stowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/02\/26\/stowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear John…<\/p>\n

Okay I just did what you always do.\u00a0 I lost the blog.\u00a0 It was all complete and I went to get a tag from an email and then poof it is all gone.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 I probably needed that experience to remind me to post and then go add something in edit.\u00a0 So here I will go and save now.<\/p>\n

Okay I’m back again.\u00a0 So the next thing I did like you was I forgot the camera for the morning.\u00a0 I had all these shots that I had to just let go of.\u00a0 So I will create the visuals for you with words…no I am not going to make those little stick people.\u00a0 That is way too hard and it is midnight.<\/p>\n

Well the morning started off with a breakfast for snowboarders, cream cheese\/chocolate chip stuffed french toast for Gabe & Dylan.\u00a0 Not much talking…just grunts ever so often.\u00a0 I felt that the camera would be intrusive at this point.\u00a0 Plus I think Gabe is getting tired of me taking pictures.\u00a0 I feel I need to…how many dog pictures can one handle?\u00a0 We may now have more Chai pictures than baby pictures of Gabe.<\/p>\n

I did bring the doggies with me to Stowe.\u00a0 They were most excited.<\/p>\n

On the way to Stowe I needed to stop at the Mobile station on rt 100.\u00a0 I missed the entrance and had to enter the Shaw’s side.\u00a0 Good thing too because I pulled up next to Brit F.\u00a0 I rolled down my window and said “I was thinking of you yesterday and wanted to email you and never did”.\u00a0 She said “I almost stopped in yesterday with a friend on our way back from Burlington”.\u00a0 So those who don’t know, Brit & Sam were an item for a bit.\u00a0 Her mom passed about 4-5 years ago.\u00a0 She is someone who I can easily talk with about life and death, and she is just 16\/17.\u00a0 She is beautiful as ever and doing well.\u00a0 It is funny because it was actually Oscar the Grouch that popped in my head.\u00a0 That is her email address and I associate Oscar with her.\u00a0 I think the last time I had contact with her was almost a year ago.\u00a0 We really don’t need telephones.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

We arrived at Stowe.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the gondola.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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I then took the dogs to Smugglers Notch road.\u00a0 This road is closed for half the year due to the narrow mountain pass.\u00a0 It actually was used to smuggle liquor during prohibition.\u00a0 Today there were just plenty of dogs and people using the pass.\u00a0 I saw many skiers and riders hiking out.\u00a0 Apparently they take the gondola up and then go off trail down through those steep woods.\u00a0 I must say they all had smiles on their faces so it must have been fun.\u00a0 Soon the trail cleared out and it was just me, the dogs and the great boulders next to the road…or the boulders that redirected the road.\u00a0 We walked for about 2 hours.\u00a0 The girls were tired and no snowmobiles today.<\/p>\n

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I went back to the lodge and read my book, “The Devil in the White Cite” by Erik Larson.\u00a0 It is quite good (thank you Leah).\u00a0 The nonfiction story is about the World’s Fair in Chicago.\u00a0 You would like the Tesla\/Edison connection.\u00a0 There was so much happening at that time.\u00a0 Here this great fair is underway and banks and businesses are failing.\u00a0 People really needed the fair.\u00a0 This book is full of little tales.\u00a0 I like the\u00a0 snippet about one carpenter on the project who just loved the experience.\u00a0 His son Walt Disney truly grew up at the right time in the right place.<\/p>\n

I saw Kat C. in the lodge.\u00a0 She is doing well…having fun with her friends with all the snow.\u00a0 They declared 11:00 beer time.\u00a0 They too were resort hopping. <\/p>\n

Here is a shot of Sumner, Gabe, Charlie & Dylan.\u00a0 They had fun riding together. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Gabe & I left about 2:30.\u00a0 Gabe was exhausted.\u00a0 I actually just had to turn off his light, as I am writing this, because he fell asleep across his bed with the light still on.<\/p>\n

Kristin came over for dinner.\u00a0 We had veggie sheppards pie and salad.\u00a0 Yum.\u00a0 Debra called about 10:00.\u00a0\u00a0 It was good talking with her.\u00a0 The kids are with their Dad in Argentina right now.\u00a0 Brit is with her finishing school work.\u00a0 She will be back here in April.\u00a0 I offered our house to her and her friends.\u00a0 I feel weird in this big house with just Gabe & I.\u00a0 We have 2.5 baths and 5 bedrooms just for us.\u00a0 If our septic worked I would be inclined to fill the house with who ever needed a place.\u00a0 Of well.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I finished my blubird of a day yesterday by receiving an email from someone who does not know us…or sam.\u00a0 She does have people in her life who love sam and so she felt connected to him.\u00a0 She had climbed the fire tower and took a picure of the sam stone you nailed up there.\u00a0 The scenes are of climbing the ladder and looking around.\u00a0 Take a look at the slideshow at this link.\u00a0 I hope it works from this blog.\u00a0 If not, copy\/paste it into a browser.\u00a0 Here is the link. \u00a0 <\/p>\n

http:\/\/web.me.com\/flask\/flask\/photos\/Pages\/from_the_tower.html<\/p>\n

much love…diane<\/p>\n

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Dear John… Okay I just did what you always do.\u00a0 I lost the blog.\u00a0 It was all complete and I went to get a tag from an email and then poof it is all gone.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 I probably needed that experience to remind me to post and then go add something in edit.\u00a0 So here … Continue reading Stowe<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}