Just noticed I rolled pass my 20th anniversary last month on Cloudy Nights. Seems like just yesterday. Thanks guys!
Grey
I'll bake a cake! Or buy a Moon Pie for you.
Posted 09 June 2024 - 11:19 AM
Just noticed I rolled pass my 20th anniversary last month on Cloudy Nights. Seems like just yesterday. Thanks guys!
Grey
I'll bake a cake! Or buy a Moon Pie for you.
Posted 09 June 2024 - 06:14 PM
I think he might just be happy with a box of Lucky Stars..
Posted 14 June 2024 - 07:49 PM
Tomorrow night maybe?
Posted 15 June 2024 - 10:39 AM
We can hope!
Posted 16 June 2024 - 07:13 AM
I viewed the Moon for a while. Bands of high clouds kept moving through, but good views in between.
Posted 20 June 2024 - 12:52 PM
I hope everyone is doing well with this heat! Looks like one more day of this then cooler temps coming. 92 degrees F at my home yesterday, but a lot of humidity. We open all the windows at bed time, then shut them when we wake.
Posted 20 June 2024 - 02:18 PM
We are doing the same daily dance here. We seem to be locked into a 4PM to 6 PM thunder storm pattern also. The negative side is the storms seem to be ignoring the expected lowering of temps and delivery of clean fresh air. I've always had the embarrassing trait of sweating like a pig during hot spells, but the body seems to be changing. Even at the hot temps I'm not producing sweat like I have in the past. I feel the heat, but it's "dry" heat. I can't trust my body to self regulate my temps so it is a stay in the shade as much as possible.
I've also decided to expand my hobby repetuire I just ordered my 1st scroll saw. Just for making whirligigs and the like. Didn't spend much for it, just had some Fathers Day gift cards with my name on them, sooooo.
Stay in the shade! Be Well.
Grey
Posted 20 June 2024 - 07:46 PM
about the same here.. just trying to keep the house cool and stay hydrated. I have plenty of stuff to do but plenty of reasons not to do it in this weather. Any rumors on clear skies in the future? The last attempt I made a couple of weeks ago I got to the farm and the scope wanted to do an upgrade and I couldn't figure out how to work around it so I headed home where it could use the wifi and then decided to just play in the backyard after it completed and by that time the sky was so messy it couldn't make a pattern match and it hasn't been out since. :-)
I trust the stars are still up there somewhere... Mike
Posted 21 June 2024 - 02:34 PM
There is a hollow spot under some shade trees, I slowly worked at filling it in this afternoon. I took a lot of breaks, the weather the past few days has done me in.
Posted 22 June 2024 - 06:16 PM
Wow! Brings back memories of Mom's Whoopie pies. Nothing fancy, just chocolate cake and a crisco, sugar and vanilla filling. I guess now a days you 'd have to call them coronary pies what a wonderful way to go. Glad you all survived.
Grey
Posted 23 June 2024 - 12:23 PM
Early last week lady Elaine sent me on a quest for a smoked picnic shoulder, no small assignment on a week that was promising record high temperatures, but I mounted the seat and drove my trustworthy 3 cylinder escape about the village in vain until I found myself staring at one and only one hiding behind tempered glass in a small neighborhood market. Beseeching a white aproned butcher to fetch the beast from its hiding place I dashed to the checkout counter where I freed said item with all due haste and left the establishment with the prize in my arm and $34.00 lighter.
That afternoon as the temperature grew hotter Lady Elaine was getting upset and announced that she may have been in error in requesting her menu choice for this week’s family dinner. Knowing the family preferred this cut of meat cold I set about scheduling an early morning of chef duty for Himself allowing ample time for the meat to cool before the next day’s buffet where I laid out a table of cheeses fresh vegetables, homemade biscuits, whole berry cranberry sauce to be enjoyed by the family.
Yesterday, I chopped up onions, celery, green peppers carrots and the last bit of leftover finely diced smoked shoulder to a pot containing parboiled split green peas and spices along with 5 cups of the broth I reserved from boiling the ham along with select spices and a few hours later I had created a thick vegetable ladened, meat rich bowl of sustenance fit for the Princes of Maine , Kings of New England and their Queens.
****(Dang) good soup if I do say myself especially on this, now rainy and cool Maine day.
Grey
Edited by Greyhaven, 23 June 2024 - 05:22 PM.
Posted 23 June 2024 - 01:28 PM
Dang, Grey, you are versatile and quick on your feet!
Posted 23 June 2024 - 01:30 PM
Wow! Brings back memories of Mom's Whoopie pies. Nothing fancy, just chocolate cake and a crisco, sugar and vanilla filling. I guess now a days you 'd have to call them coronary pies what a wonderful way to go. Glad you all survived.
Grey
Our moms must have had the same cookbook! Mom used to make the same for us kids. Someone at the Festival had gluten free whoopie pies for sale, I have no gluten allergies so I passed.
Posted 25 June 2024 - 08:11 AM
When I woke up this morning
this wasn't on my mind
Just thought I'd share
my roadside.
Timothy hay, early morning light and the occasional kiss of a gentle breeze sending clouds of pollen off to ensure that the future is secured for Timothy. Well Ripley was impressed.
Grey
Posted 27 June 2024 - 06:39 PM
Looks like good viewing a little later tonight. Maybe I'll get out and take a look around.
Posted 28 June 2024 - 06:08 AM
Hey Scott..... Did you collect any photons last night? Pretty overcast here at 11 ish. Today I've have find an inspection station for the Escape. I had to have the windshield replaced this week and noticed the soon to be out of date sticker...gosh the year has flown by.
Grey
Posted 28 June 2024 - 06:31 PM
Hey Scott..... Did you collect any photons last night? Pretty overcast here at 11 ish. Today I've have find an inspection station for the Escape. I had to have the windshield replaced this week and noticed the soon to be out of date sticker...gosh the year has flown by.
Grey
I decided not to stay up, darkness comes too late. I'm going to try again tonight, I noticed some clouds moving in last night, too.
Sigh, the year is almost halfway over.
Edited by Scott123, 28 June 2024 - 09:50 PM.
Posted 28 June 2024 - 09:44 PM
I went out around 9:30, seeing was poor, looked like a high thin haze. Maybe tomorrow.
Posted 28 June 2024 - 09:49 PM
On Wednesday (I believe) I had a strange dream: my wife was moving rapidly around the darkened bedroom. I couldn't see her but I heard the sound her garments made as she moved about. I heard her moving stuff in my night stand. I asked her what she was doing, she said something about looking for a charger cable. Then I heard her moving away.
This dream seemed super realistic. I have vivid dreams, but this was like a lucid dream!
This morning I found a dead bat in the bedroom! I wonder if I heard it flitting about and incorporated the sounds into my dream...
Posted 29 June 2024 - 05:04 AM
Ah....Oh..Kay... everything will be alright....
Grey
Edited by Greyhaven, 29 June 2024 - 07:00 AM.
Posted 29 June 2024 - 06:00 AM
Lol, I'm sure it will! I have incorporated sounds into dreams before. The last time it happened I dreamed my wife was waking me up. She was.
Edited by Scott123, 29 June 2024 - 06:37 AM.
Posted 29 June 2024 - 04:06 PM
I was out a little later than you Scott.. On the Greene CDS which is close to us showed the seeing was going to improve into the light blue zone at 11:00 so I had the Seestar charged and set up and calibrated before dark and I checked at 9:00 and it was poor seeing so I went in and waited till 10:30 and fired up the Seestar from inside and it figured out where it was ok but when I sent it to M54 and stack up a few exposures there wasn't much there. I went outside and eyeballed the sky and I could see why. I could make out a couple of stars that should have been close... I think one was Ascella but not much else.. The haze was enough the Milky Way wasn't apparent either. I powered it down and put the cover on it and went to bed. I believe it did 60 some odd exposures but no cluster really to be seen. I guess there was enough that it could do a pattern match and think it was centered.. I switched the filters in and out but it didn't matter much. Oh well, better nights are comin' and I'll be complaining about staying up all night! Good thing the 3 cornered flies aren't out at night. During the day they are terrible! They bite as soon as they land...and it hurts! I've got a couple of trail cams at the farm and when I change the cards I am hustling and swatting. Mosquito's aren't bad so far this year. Maybe the black flies ate them... I've got a couple of fawns this week finally over there. I was worried a bear might have gotten them. The does have been out in the field all spring. I've seen the bear once a month or so ago and we've had a couple of folks that told us they have seen one crossing the road there. One said it was a really big one and another said a medium. The one I saw was only probably 200 or so but looked taller because he had no gut after winter.
. I had to make a new door for the barn a few years ago. We didn't do a good enough job cleaning up after doing sapping and in the spring I guess one of them wanted some syrup for his pancakes :-) no damage except the old door...
My neighbor at camp gave me a bunch of unused 4"x8" pavers he wanted to get rid of and I have enough to do an 8x8 patio with them. I already did a 4x4 place over at the farm for setting up with 16" step stones so I could add on to that with a border? almost a 10x10 dance floor then... room to set up a couple of chairs on something solid would be nice.
Posted 01 July 2024 - 06:31 AM
After watching the weather this morning and then checking CDS dare I hope? Most of my playing with the Seestar so far has been nebulae oriented so I am hoping to do a good cluster. I could lose myself in those with my refractor
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