Wow, its been 3 months since I have blogged. Its not that I didn't want to,its just the timing was never there.
Well, I am back. Its been quite a ride over the last three months. Loss of a friend at work, in a good way for her, she retired. Not getting a job promotion, lots of depressing times over that one, but its over, moving on. Finished the Toastermasters Speech Craft course through the Napanee Valley Toastmastersand did one talk on Light Pollution to the CFUW Brockville.
I just celebrated my 45th birthday, the colt 45, I don't feel to bad about the age, but always the weight thing. The never ending strugglge of life.......admit it, its a life style change, gone will be the love of cheese, pizza and beer, hello club soda and rice cakes.
I am finishing up one area of interest in theRASC the National Secretary's position, and moving onto another one, but at the local level of the Kingston Centre of the RASC"In 2005, I will be the President of the Centre. It will be good to get back into the local level after taking a year off, and not really doing anything at the local level in any official capacity for the last 6 years.
My brother called me for my birthday, and I do miss him. He lives out west, many kilometers from here, but the email is making us closer.
I had a great Birthday event. It started on Thursday night after work, with seeing my Dad, and going out to dinner with my daughter. Spending time with her is precious, since she is in school, and busy with her own life, I guess the empty nest syndrome is still haunting me in the background, I get the pangs of pain and loneliness every now and then, but then it does go away, and on I go.
I took the Friday and Monday off work, just to do my own things at home. Friday night had some friends come over and Kevin got me a blowup "Tux" peguin for Christmas to sit outside, it inflates then deflates , Saturday continued with gifts of DVD movies, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and Prisilla, Queen of the Desert. Onto Raxx at night for food and pool with great friends, and home for cake which Kevin made at 9:30 at night. Great day.
Sunday, not much happened some computer work, and napping and relaxing and tv. Monday, I am home doing more of the same. This morning I got up around 5:30 am and went for a walk, since I have not done that since last Monday, lazy butt. It was psuedo clear, the moon was past full in the west, but it had a ring around it. Saturn , Castor and Pollux were inside the ring of the moon. Venus is low in the east, Mars is rising, and the difference between Jupiter and Venus is around 30 degrees, Jupiter is around 45 degrees in the sky. On the way home, I saw a meteor go into the North, drawing it back, it might have been an early Leonid or just a sporadic.
So, I wait for the sun to rise, as there is hazy cloud in the sky. I will do some solar observing, as it is going to get cloudy again, but tomorrow accroding to the weather forcasters say it will be sunny.
Till later..........and not so long next time.
Monday, November 29, 2004
Saturday, August 28, 2004
What a week!!
What a week!! Its been a week since posting to the blog, so here I am . Its foggy ,way to foggy to walk, pea soup out there.
So lets start with yesterday(August 27) and work our way backward.
Remember this was the first week back to work after a two week holiday, so it was the longest week ever.
The morning walk was dark,as it was cloudy, but by the end of the walk, Venus and Saturn broke out of the cloud. It was warm, and hazy and the air was thick with moisture. I did manage to get in for a swim, the water was 24C, it was very relaxing.
We worked, we ploughed through the day and then when the weekend began, we were ready for it.
After work and Dad's, we headed downtown (Kingston, Ontario) to Latina Sol for dinner. Its a new restarurant in town, that has been open for about a month, and we have been waiting for 6 months for it to open. Its a mixture of Mexican and Latino food, and the Corona is always good. The salsa is their own brand, with lots of cilantro, and just a touch of hot peppers to warm up your mouth and wake it up. Kevin had beef hard taco, and I had the chicken soft taco, and the salad was like a ceaser but different because it contained lime. We did have desert which was a apple caramel on a tower of light pastry, very good, this was a shared event.
As we started to walk over to the restaurant, there was a few drops of rain. We were going to sit on the patio, but the rain came heavier. We were watching the roadies put up the light beam in the rain and cover up the speakers. Thinking that it was going to be a very wet event, the rain did stop, the dark grey clouds left and the sun actually came back out. It stayed relatively clear
Once done, we went walking down Princess St, and ended up at Indigo book store. Perused the store, bought a couple of magazines, then went back to the van, to drop this off and get the chairs for the evenings event.
The evenings event was the Friday night show on Pricess St of the Limestone City Blues Festival.
Lasts nights opener was Michael Pickett he could make that harmonica do music like no other. His main guitar that he used was a tin/metal guitar that was made in 1931. He played for about an hour , then the Headliners came on.
The Fambulous Thunderbirds with group leader, Kim Wilson.
These guys rocked the house, ok the street. They played non-stop for 2 hours. The blues ranged from slow to high beat. They came back for one encore with 2 songs. Each had their own solo, and Kim Wilson had played the harmonica for his solo for around 15 minutes. Once this song was done they broke into a lyrical song, no breaks. Though the piano player had issues with his chair, and the guitar player had to change a string 3/4 way into the show, done and tuned within 2 minutes.
I love these guys. I know I am dating myself but I have their cassette tape Tuff Enuff, from my later teen years and listening to them on the radio on the House of Blues Radio show host Elwood Blues (aka Dan Aykroyd). If you have never listened to this show, find it on your radio, its a wonderful show that introduces to you the old and new blues singers/players and lets you know how they started on their passion.
After the encore, the band was on a bus off to the TO airport (I think we passed the bus on the way home) to play tonight in Jim Thorpe, PA. We finally got home after 11:00 pm and pretty well crashed, from being up at 5:00 am that morning.
So today, we are going back in to the Heirloom Tomato tasting and then the Blues Festival after that. There is an up and coming Blues player named Shaun Riley, which we purchased his cd last year from the show he did at Rouge Hollow's Day in Newburgh, Ontario
More on this event later
So now we are back to Thursday (August 26), well not to much of anything happened this day. I walked, we worked and came home , did some things outside,came in and starting working on a new Canadian Meteor Work webpage, but more on that later.
Wednesday (August 25), well after some final decision making the meeting for the 2004 Fall N Stars Star party went. Though we are a little dissappointed in the late date start of the event, we will get it done. This is a Star Party that is in conjuction with the RASC Kingston & RASC Belleville centres. This is year 5, and I at least am determined to see it keep going. All is undercontrol, and it will go on.
Tuesday (August 24), again not much no walk, it rained, work, (we had a break in at work, 1st one in 21 years that I have been there, that was the excitment for the day, not to much got done, but the would be robbers, we taking my cans of soup) we went home after some shopping, dinner and relaxed.
Monday (August 23), first day back to work.....it took forever. I did go for my walk, it was plesant, the creek is just a small flow right now, but still soothing. We came home, had dinner late, because we were working on the observatory, and I think we were in bed early......just to get back into the routine of non-holidays.
Sunday (August 22)- Our last day off. Well some walking, and gardening, and astromomy (solar) and it was a windy day. We had took our last afternoon nap, and had a steak supper and drank way too much wine, and watched our burning pot and talked about life, the future, elderly parents and misconceptions. Off to bed semi-early for preparation for work. I slept great.
Saturday (August 21)- We went into town early,as I helped out with the Kingston Horticultural Show's 2004 Flower and Vegetable show. I bought a burning pot,
after the show, did some shopping, went to Dad's, Sara's then home. In the meantime, while I was at the show, Kevin, did a bunch of shopping gpt some deck blocks, for the new shed, and some formica for the roof runners on the obervatory.
We came home, and worked on the observatory, and observed the sun. We wanted to do some observing at night,so we laid down a bit. We did go out and
observe, but it was cold, cold dew in the air, the temps were around 6C for August, that is like fall weather.
We went in early than we wanted, but we did observe some meteors and constellations.
Friday (August 20)
Great day with friends. Hank and Di took the day off work, and we went over to Picton. The goal to go on a wine tour. That we did. We made it to six wineary's. All at various levels of display, some very laid back, some very high tech, and dropped lots of bucks to build it. Prince Edward County is becoming the next Niagara Region for wine. This area however, has more limestone so the taste of the wine is different than that of the Niagara Region.
Now we also went shopping in Bloomfield. I got a great sun planting pot, currently holding a Mom but soon to be brought inside for winter use, and some great nick nacks, which have already been placed around the house. A day is not complete with shopping until you go into the Taste of Country, more purchases, but we did that before we got to Napannee, see below.
Kevin and I picked up a bottle or two from every wineary, as we like to sample and purchase Canadian wine. We started at Waupoos Estates Wineary and ended up at the Huff Wineary, but we did not get any wine from here, did not enjoy the flavour- I guess after 5 other places and tastings, they were all starting to taste the same.
But what we did get was at Waupoos: Honeysuckle 2003 med dry, Seyval Blanc 2002, Vidal 2002, all mainly white, as we have enough reds at home but did get one Peal Noir 2002 it is low in tannins. I cannot seem to drink the reds due to the tannins. I have been able to drink a Gamay, but they were out, and Gamay is low in tannins. The girl at the tasting bar remembered me, but then again is this good or bad. We have been their 3 years in a row, and I generally do get a couple of bottles each time. Will she remember me next year????
Next The Black Prince Winery, in Picton. We got the Auxerois 2003 and the Vidal 2002. Just stating out, but a very nice area though off the main road coming out of Picton heading west.
3rd stop Chadsey's Cairns (no website yet) and I got a Riesling 2002. I like the german wine, Kevin does not....oh well more for me. This place is just coming online, and they are building a deck on the back to look out over the fields. When you first enter the laneway, there is a very old cemetary dating back to the 1700's , sort of makes you wonder at first.........every read Stephen King???
We did stop off at Carmilla Wineary, very nice place, with a nice restaurant, but did not purchas anything. They have a very upscale planting operation with large fans in the fields to keep the frost away,and air moving.
Next stop The Grange of Prince Eward Inc., Estate Wineary, in Hillier Ontario (no website yet). This is a lovely area on an estate, that loves wildlife, and natural ponds. They took the old barn that had been raised and used the original beams inside to make this fantastic building. Windows all around to view the lands, and still more room downstairs to expand. There is also a patio to sit out on. We tried a few wines, and purchased the Trumpours Mill Gamay 2003.
Next on our drive, as we looked for the last wineary for the day, we stopped at a yard sale, and Di got some old wooden box and a box front for a steal of price, I should have gotten more, but I still have too many things at home I have to do the projects on.
We ended the wine tour with the Huff Estate Wineary. This place has a helicopter pad, a patio, restaurant and many new fields, in which some of the grapes were seen. Very upscale place, lots of cement work.
We finished the drive home with a trip into Napannee to get Chinese food for dinner. Went back to our friends place, pigged out on Chinese food, read our fortune cookies and had a drink to reminise about the day.
We left around 9:30 pm to let our friends relax and for us to put things away, what a great day.
This should take use back to Thursday August 19, when I last posted to the blog. As you can tell.......What a week!!
So lets start with yesterday(August 27) and work our way backward.
Remember this was the first week back to work after a two week holiday, so it was the longest week ever.
The morning walk was dark,as it was cloudy, but by the end of the walk, Venus and Saturn broke out of the cloud. It was warm, and hazy and the air was thick with moisture. I did manage to get in for a swim, the water was 24C, it was very relaxing.
We worked, we ploughed through the day and then when the weekend began, we were ready for it.
After work and Dad's, we headed downtown (Kingston, Ontario) to Latina Sol for dinner. Its a new restarurant in town, that has been open for about a month, and we have been waiting for 6 months for it to open. Its a mixture of Mexican and Latino food, and the Corona is always good. The salsa is their own brand, with lots of cilantro, and just a touch of hot peppers to warm up your mouth and wake it up. Kevin had beef hard taco, and I had the chicken soft taco, and the salad was like a ceaser but different because it contained lime. We did have desert which was a apple caramel on a tower of light pastry, very good, this was a shared event.
As we started to walk over to the restaurant, there was a few drops of rain. We were going to sit on the patio, but the rain came heavier. We were watching the roadies put up the light beam in the rain and cover up the speakers. Thinking that it was going to be a very wet event, the rain did stop, the dark grey clouds left and the sun actually came back out. It stayed relatively clear
Once done, we went walking down Princess St, and ended up at Indigo book store. Perused the store, bought a couple of magazines, then went back to the van, to drop this off and get the chairs for the evenings event.
The evenings event was the Friday night show on Pricess St of the Limestone City Blues Festival.
Lasts nights opener was Michael Pickett he could make that harmonica do music like no other. His main guitar that he used was a tin/metal guitar that was made in 1931. He played for about an hour , then the Headliners came on.
The Fambulous Thunderbirds with group leader, Kim Wilson.
These guys rocked the house, ok the street. They played non-stop for 2 hours. The blues ranged from slow to high beat. They came back for one encore with 2 songs. Each had their own solo, and Kim Wilson had played the harmonica for his solo for around 15 minutes. Once this song was done they broke into a lyrical song, no breaks. Though the piano player had issues with his chair, and the guitar player had to change a string 3/4 way into the show, done and tuned within 2 minutes.
I love these guys. I know I am dating myself but I have their cassette tape Tuff Enuff, from my later teen years and listening to them on the radio on the House of Blues Radio show host Elwood Blues (aka Dan Aykroyd). If you have never listened to this show, find it on your radio, its a wonderful show that introduces to you the old and new blues singers/players and lets you know how they started on their passion.
After the encore, the band was on a bus off to the TO airport (I think we passed the bus on the way home) to play tonight in Jim Thorpe, PA. We finally got home after 11:00 pm and pretty well crashed, from being up at 5:00 am that morning.
So today, we are going back in to the Heirloom Tomato tasting and then the Blues Festival after that. There is an up and coming Blues player named Shaun Riley, which we purchased his cd last year from the show he did at Rouge Hollow's Day in Newburgh, Ontario
More on this event later
So now we are back to Thursday (August 26), well not to much of anything happened this day. I walked, we worked and came home , did some things outside,came in and starting working on a new Canadian Meteor Work webpage, but more on that later.
Wednesday (August 25), well after some final decision making the meeting for the 2004 Fall N Stars Star party went. Though we are a little dissappointed in the late date start of the event, we will get it done. This is a Star Party that is in conjuction with the RASC Kingston & RASC Belleville centres. This is year 5, and I at least am determined to see it keep going. All is undercontrol, and it will go on.
Tuesday (August 24), again not much no walk, it rained, work, (we had a break in at work, 1st one in 21 years that I have been there, that was the excitment for the day, not to much got done, but the would be robbers, we taking my cans of soup) we went home after some shopping, dinner and relaxed.
Monday (August 23), first day back to work.....it took forever. I did go for my walk, it was plesant, the creek is just a small flow right now, but still soothing. We came home, had dinner late, because we were working on the observatory, and I think we were in bed early......just to get back into the routine of non-holidays.
Sunday (August 22)- Our last day off. Well some walking, and gardening, and astromomy (solar) and it was a windy day. We had took our last afternoon nap, and had a steak supper and drank way too much wine, and watched our burning pot and talked about life, the future, elderly parents and misconceptions. Off to bed semi-early for preparation for work. I slept great.
Saturday (August 21)- We went into town early,as I helped out with the Kingston Horticultural Show's 2004 Flower and Vegetable show. I bought a burning pot,
after the show, did some shopping, went to Dad's, Sara's then home. In the meantime, while I was at the show, Kevin, did a bunch of shopping gpt some deck blocks, for the new shed, and some formica for the roof runners on the obervatory.
We came home, and worked on the observatory, and observed the sun. We wanted to do some observing at night,so we laid down a bit. We did go out and
observe, but it was cold, cold dew in the air, the temps were around 6C for August, that is like fall weather.
We went in early than we wanted, but we did observe some meteors and constellations.
Friday (August 20)
Great day with friends. Hank and Di took the day off work, and we went over to Picton. The goal to go on a wine tour. That we did. We made it to six wineary's. All at various levels of display, some very laid back, some very high tech, and dropped lots of bucks to build it. Prince Edward County is becoming the next Niagara Region for wine. This area however, has more limestone so the taste of the wine is different than that of the Niagara Region.
Now we also went shopping in Bloomfield. I got a great sun planting pot, currently holding a Mom but soon to be brought inside for winter use, and some great nick nacks, which have already been placed around the house. A day is not complete with shopping until you go into the Taste of Country, more purchases, but we did that before we got to Napannee, see below.
Kevin and I picked up a bottle or two from every wineary, as we like to sample and purchase Canadian wine. We started at Waupoos Estates Wineary and ended up at the Huff Wineary, but we did not get any wine from here, did not enjoy the flavour- I guess after 5 other places and tastings, they were all starting to taste the same.
But what we did get was at Waupoos: Honeysuckle 2003 med dry, Seyval Blanc 2002, Vidal 2002, all mainly white, as we have enough reds at home but did get one Peal Noir 2002 it is low in tannins. I cannot seem to drink the reds due to the tannins. I have been able to drink a Gamay, but they were out, and Gamay is low in tannins. The girl at the tasting bar remembered me, but then again is this good or bad. We have been their 3 years in a row, and I generally do get a couple of bottles each time. Will she remember me next year????
Next The Black Prince Winery, in Picton. We got the Auxerois 2003 and the Vidal 2002. Just stating out, but a very nice area though off the main road coming out of Picton heading west.
3rd stop Chadsey's Cairns (no website yet) and I got a Riesling 2002. I like the german wine, Kevin does not....oh well more for me. This place is just coming online, and they are building a deck on the back to look out over the fields. When you first enter the laneway, there is a very old cemetary dating back to the 1700's , sort of makes you wonder at first.........every read Stephen King???
We did stop off at Carmilla Wineary, very nice place, with a nice restaurant, but did not purchas anything. They have a very upscale planting operation with large fans in the fields to keep the frost away,and air moving.
Next stop The Grange of Prince Eward Inc., Estate Wineary, in Hillier Ontario (no website yet). This is a lovely area on an estate, that loves wildlife, and natural ponds. They took the old barn that had been raised and used the original beams inside to make this fantastic building. Windows all around to view the lands, and still more room downstairs to expand. There is also a patio to sit out on. We tried a few wines, and purchased the Trumpours Mill Gamay 2003.
Next on our drive, as we looked for the last wineary for the day, we stopped at a yard sale, and Di got some old wooden box and a box front for a steal of price, I should have gotten more, but I still have too many things at home I have to do the projects on.
We ended the wine tour with the Huff Estate Wineary. This place has a helicopter pad, a patio, restaurant and many new fields, in which some of the grapes were seen. Very upscale place, lots of cement work.
We finished the drive home with a trip into Napannee to get Chinese food for dinner. Went back to our friends place, pigged out on Chinese food, read our fortune cookies and had a drink to reminise about the day.
We left around 9:30 pm to let our friends relax and for us to put things away, what a great day.
This should take use back to Thursday August 19, when I last posted to the blog. As you can tell.......What a week!!
Friday, August 20, 2004
Oh Perfect Night
Off we went observing into the night. As twilight was leaving and the crescent moon was going down in the west , the stars became our night lights. It was a perfect night, no breeze, cool temps and at this point no clouds.
We followed the satellite predictions and watched them go over, estimating the magnitudes of the predictions, if they were right or not. A few we missed, as they were too dim, others showed up that were not even on the list . At one point we were looking for Iridium 37 and saw one follow it with the same magnitude, it must have been one that failed, bonus a double iridium
In between the satellite passes, I observed Sagittarius
It was the first time, I had just taken the scope to each of the stars that made up the outline of Sagittarius and the spoon to the upper left of the teapot. It was very relaxing.
Then I proceeded to look for some Messier objects. M57 in Lyra
This is the Ring Nebula. In my telescope, which is a 4 inch SCT (Schmidt Cassigran) it was a small little donut, but magnificient just the same. M31 & M32 in Andromeda (the Andromeda and its companion galaxy) M13 in might Hercules.
The temperature when we started around 9:00 pm edt, was 11.2 C, by midnight, when some high cirrus clouds started to move in and the transparency started to go, it was 7C. This is August, welcome to Canada.
We could see M31 naked eye, and Perseus, and the double cluster
When we came in I looked through my log book, and have observed these objects before. They must be favourites.
As you can see, we had a perfect night............ now today, we are going with our friends, Hank and Di to the Picton area and the local winery's and shopping in Wellington, might even end up at the Taste of Country in Belleville, this too shall be a good day.
Though we are coming to the end of our two week vacation, it has been great. We have done what we wanted, gone places, seen things, someday's just do nothing, others, do to much and the body lets you know. I think it as taken me 1.5 weeks to finally get to a state of relaxation, only to realize, we have to go back.............
where are those winning lottery numbers?????? till later
We followed the satellite predictions and watched them go over, estimating the magnitudes of the predictions, if they were right or not. A few we missed, as they were too dim, others showed up that were not even on the list . At one point we were looking for Iridium 37 and saw one follow it with the same magnitude, it must have been one that failed, bonus a double iridium
In between the satellite passes, I observed Sagittarius
It was the first time, I had just taken the scope to each of the stars that made up the outline of Sagittarius and the spoon to the upper left of the teapot. It was very relaxing.
Then I proceeded to look for some Messier objects. M57 in Lyra
This is the Ring Nebula. In my telescope, which is a 4 inch SCT (Schmidt Cassigran) it was a small little donut, but magnificient just the same. M31 & M32 in Andromeda (the Andromeda and its companion galaxy) M13 in might Hercules.
The temperature when we started around 9:00 pm edt, was 11.2 C, by midnight, when some high cirrus clouds started to move in and the transparency started to go, it was 7C. This is August, welcome to Canada.
We could see M31 naked eye, and Perseus, and the double cluster
When we came in I looked through my log book, and have observed these objects before. They must be favourites.
As you can see, we had a perfect night............ now today, we are going with our friends, Hank and Di to the Picton area and the local winery's and shopping in Wellington, might even end up at the Taste of Country in Belleville, this too shall be a good day.
Though we are coming to the end of our two week vacation, it has been great. We have done what we wanted, gone places, seen things, someday's just do nothing, others, do to much and the body lets you know. I think it as taken me 1.5 weeks to finally get to a state of relaxation, only to realize, we have to go back.............
where are those winning lottery numbers?????? till later
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Its one of those lazy hazy day's of summer
Its one of those days, you know the type, +20 C wind from the south west, its overcast, but the sun is hitting the bottoms of the clouds with a pink and salmon colour. It feels sticky though the breeze is nice and warm........
Got up around 5:45 am and went for my walk. It was still early enough the hear the birds sing and the crickets chirp, but the cars in the neighbourhood were coming alive.
A flat snake on the road, and I actually met a person who was walking towards Kingston for work, no doubt walking to get to his ride.
The neighbourhood is so quiet and calm in the early morning, its the best time to walk.
Today, well, I might get to stripping the coffee table. I tried a bit yesterday, and it worked quite well.
Pulled some weeds (grass) out of the front west garden, and should probably put some mulch on it as well, let you know later if I succeeded. Its coffee time ....
Well, after the coffee, and finishing up some analysis on some solar results, the guilt of not doing anything kicked in, so out I went. I went out to help Kevin dig through the old wood shack pile out back. We pulled the shingles off the old roof, and ripped off the 2 x 4's , which we will be re-using for the construction of the shed/greenhouse. With the price of wood now, its better to recylce. There is still some wood to go through, but the sun started to come out and it started to get hot. After all that hard work, we needed to cool off, so in the pool we went.
The temperature a balmy 24C, but it felt so cold. In there for a bit, along with a beverage (Ceaser for me, beer for Kevin) and then we got out. I did the mulch (2 bags, at the west garden, and one on the "galaxy" garden (mid lawn).
From here, I went and did the solar observing , awesome sun, and here is what we seen today.
Sketched the sun, then well, started the stripping of the coffee table. As I proceeded with this task, Kevin starting adding pieces to the observatory roof to keep out the rain, and more support. This went on for about 2 hours. He completed his job, mine is still on going, only 1/2 of the top part of the table stripped.
In the pool again, gotta love holidays. By this time, it was around 4:30 so I went in to start dinner. We ate, and put stuff away. We laid down for a couple of hours, because its going to be clear for a bit tonight, and we are going to observe the night sky in Yarker.
So off I go to do some satellite observations....................
Got up around 5:45 am and went for my walk. It was still early enough the hear the birds sing and the crickets chirp, but the cars in the neighbourhood were coming alive.
A flat snake on the road, and I actually met a person who was walking towards Kingston for work, no doubt walking to get to his ride.
The neighbourhood is so quiet and calm in the early morning, its the best time to walk.
Today, well, I might get to stripping the coffee table. I tried a bit yesterday, and it worked quite well.
Pulled some weeds (grass) out of the front west garden, and should probably put some mulch on it as well, let you know later if I succeeded. Its coffee time ....
Well, after the coffee, and finishing up some analysis on some solar results, the guilt of not doing anything kicked in, so out I went. I went out to help Kevin dig through the old wood shack pile out back. We pulled the shingles off the old roof, and ripped off the 2 x 4's , which we will be re-using for the construction of the shed/greenhouse. With the price of wood now, its better to recylce. There is still some wood to go through, but the sun started to come out and it started to get hot. After all that hard work, we needed to cool off, so in the pool we went.
The temperature a balmy 24C, but it felt so cold. In there for a bit, along with a beverage (Ceaser for me, beer for Kevin) and then we got out. I did the mulch (2 bags, at the west garden, and one on the "galaxy" garden (mid lawn).
From here, I went and did the solar observing , awesome sun, and here is what we seen today.
Sketched the sun, then well, started the stripping of the coffee table. As I proceeded with this task, Kevin starting adding pieces to the observatory roof to keep out the rain, and more support. This went on for about 2 hours. He completed his job, mine is still on going, only 1/2 of the top part of the table stripped.
In the pool again, gotta love holidays. By this time, it was around 4:30 so I went in to start dinner. We ate, and put stuff away. We laid down for a couple of hours, because its going to be clear for a bit tonight, and we are going to observe the night sky in Yarker.
So off I go to do some satellite observations....................
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Its a start
Well, just starting this blog. I was using html off my website, but we shall see how this goes. Got the tip from Tech G4TV, and Leo Laporte- now in Canada !!
Enough for now, I will back post my html files shortly.
Enough for now, I will back post my html files shortly.
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