Birthday trip to The Great Escape

Silas turned 12 recently and we went to the Great Escape with his friends Nate and Tucker and their dad Daryl.




Check out this video of Silas Daryl and Nate on the giant bungee swingy thing.

We met up with Kenny who tagged along for the day.

 
 

 

Silas competes in a skateboarding event

The event was held in Barre last Saturday, Silas competed and won second place in his division.

Neil Young

Exciting Things!!!

A young moose in the garden the morning after a late spring snowfall. Note lush tasty green grass.

Quinn marched in the state marching band championship marching march.Pirates of the Caribbean was their theme.

Baseball season began - Silas' team are off to a good start with 2 wins in 3 games

Poppy has been riding her bike..

very fast.

Silas has been skateboarding

Ashley has been doing some landscaping

Poppy helped with the big stuff

30 wheeler..getting on the highway.

The Wailers at Higher Ground

Silas and I saw the Wailers last night at Higher Ground.We fueled up on Red Bull at 10pm as we headed OUT of town.

Check out Aston " Family Man " Barrett .

The show was great and included classics such as "Three little birds " - check out the video below

Silas scored a set list and a guitar pick AND met the drummer - after they posed for a picture the drummer pulled Si to the side and whispered in his ear " hey Silas mon, i'll be playin with Kenny Chesney on thursday night at the Country Music Awards - I'll send you vibes"

The Wailers have played with Kenny Chesney before

Poppy makes friends while shopping

 
 
 
 

Poppy really liked their dog.

I shut my finger in the car door

While taking Poppy to school I shut my hand in the car door. poppy took me to the nurse.

 
 

Poppy goes to the Dentist.

 
 
 

Bowling at "Spare Time "

Medina Sod at Charlie O's

Saturday night was a full on rock fest at Charlie O's with Medina Sod - neither fresh off the road nor straight from the studio and with no fan fare whatsoever they took to the beer stained floor around 10 pm. Rocking ensued.






Because I know someone in the band I got a press pass and was able to get right up front where I captured this video.

Press play and turn it up peoples!!

The owl and the chicken ...

Our friends Todd and Alison have chickens - they now have 1 less. A big owl went in to the coup that had 13 chickens and a heat lamp in it and grabbed a bird.The owl dragged the chicken outside and was unable to lift it out of the wire fence enclosed " Chicken Exercise Area ". It remained on the dead chicken for a night and a day - snacking and napping. The following day Todd approached the owl with a shovel and 2 dogs - it still didn't budge and clicked its beak in defiance.When Todd tossed the carcass over the fence the Owl took up residence once again on the dead bird and snacked and napped for another night and day.The owl left once it could carry its kill.

Silas breaks his arm

The winter shredding on the mountain came to an end for Silas this week - he broke his arm over the weekend. At the hospital they tried with a local anesthetic to reset it but they were unable to stop the growth plate shifting out of position. Bein' young with a whole bunch more growin' ahead of him it was decided that the growth plate needed to be reset perfectly so we returned to the hospital yesterday for a some pins and a new cast. Silas was as rugged as could be and by 12.30 he was out of the anesthetic, dressed and heading for home with a purple cast.

The nurses were really friendly... They even had a girraff with no neck



After a some prep we went into the operating room - where we met the anesthesiologist.She was very a very cool lady.



Here's Silas chatting to her right before he nodded off..





An interesting side note.. Silas' nurse on his first visit was a young man who had lost his foot to cancer - and then broke his arm skateboarding.While he had the broken arm ( and now also missing a foot) he went longboarding ( a bigger faster skateboard ) and was hit by a bus - he broke the other arm AND lost the rest of the leg!!! He now has 4 special prosthetic legs for different activities - including a snowboarding leg with built in compression shocks and a climbing leg that had extend-able parts.