A few weeks ago I noticed Niwt had a telescope in his back room. And I asked him why he never took it out and played with it. Sounds like a simple enough question, but life is not simple.
If you haven't been following the weather in my fair city of late, here's an update: it's been freaking cold. Not as cold as when I lived in Fairbanks, but cold. Too cold to ride my bike to work while I contemplate what to do about my frozen truck sitting in the driveway. Anyone who might still be shopping for me, here's a hint - all I want for Christmas is a heated shop.
Where I'm going with this is that I have seen a lot of the night sky lately. Pretty much the telescope lives in Niwt's yard. Which is super fun when you have two big black dogs who are tired of being cooped up in the house all day and one who demands constant fetch with his huge ball in the yard and the only way to get him enough of a run to make the slightest dent is to kick the ball from your front porch over the fence to the far corner of the yard with the gate between yards open. A little more challenging when taking into account the telescope.
When you ask someone a seemingly innocent question it may turn into something like this. Now that I have Niwt looking at the night sky, I have Niwt telling me about the night sky and demanding I come out and see it. And can I say anything about how darn cold it is outside and that I'm nice and toasty in here with my book/tea/elfing? Nope, not a good idea. Now I just have warm clothes staged at the front door and I'm pretty quick at layering the hat, scarf, two coats, mittens, and boots on to go spend 13 seconds outside looking at something cool I have always wanted to see, just not at this temperature.
Last night was one of those things. We went outside approximately 400 times to watch the moon dissapear. It was really cool. And I mean that literally. I eventually got all my presents wrapped and ready to mail, but it took a few hours.
A few weeks ago I noticed Niwt had a telescope in his back room. And I asked him why he never took it out and played with it. Sounds like a simple enough question, but life is not simple.
If you haven't been following the weather in my fair city of late, here's an update: it's been freaking cold. Not as cold as when I lived in Fairbanks, but cold. Too cold to ride my bike to work while I contemplate what to do about my frozen truck sitting in the driveway. Anyone who might still be shopping for me, here's a hint - all I want for Christmas is a heated shop. 
Where I'm going with this is that I have seen a lot of the night sky lately. Pretty much the telescope lives in Niwt's yard. Which is super fun when you have two big black dogs who are tired of being cooped up in the house all day and one who demands constant fetch with his huge ball in the yard and the only way to get him enough of a run to make the slightest dent is to kick the ball from your front porch over the fence to the far corner of the yard with the gate between yards open. A little more challenging when taking into account the telescope.
When you ask someone a seemingly innocent question it may turn into something like this. Now that I have Niwt looking at the night sky, I have Niwt telling me about the night sky and demanding I come out and see it. And can I say anything about how darn cold it is outside and that I'm nice and toasty in here with my book/tea/elfing? Nope, not a good idea. Now I just have warm clothes staged at the front door and I'm pretty quick at layering the hat, scarf, two coats, mittens, and boots on to go spend 13 seconds outside looking at something cool I have always wanted to see, just not at this temperature.
Last night was one of those things. We went outside approximately 400 times to watch the moon dissapear. It was really cool. And I mean that literally. I eventually got all my presents wrapped and ready to mail, but it took a few hours.
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You got to see the lunar eclipse! :-) I'm so jealous. :-( All cloudy and snowing incessantly here last night. :-/
Thanks for the pics = Very cool! (.....in the jazzy & neat sort of way, not the ridiculously low temperature kind of way.)
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