Perseid viewing is excellent here tonight! It's so clear you can see the Milky Way, and I saw my first meteor less than one minute after I went outside. It's been a long week here, and that really brightened my spirits.
Oh, the Milky Way! We could regularly see it where I grew up, but not here. But the sky is pretty dark for being on the edge of a large city. Rather hazy tonight, but we went out and saw eight in an hour, three notable ones. Naomi was born on the 12th, and we have made it a family tradition to watch the meteors this night. Unfortunately we can't be together this year.
Here is a link to a drawing Naomi made re the Perseid meteor shower: http://tanukinao.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d27ad3x
We have a zippier Internet connection now! Account not completely set up, but connection working anyway. Very good. Much zippier iMac ordered but not yet shipped, various accessories already received. New and bigger computer desk partly assembled, will trade dinner for help of two nice young single fellows from work next week to remove old desk and get new one assembled and installed. DAV [Disabled American Veterans] will pick up the old desk.
Will be at Salt Mine No. 2 this weekend, new boss is cranky about Internet use, so will not be able to check in for a couple of days.
That's a sweet drawing, Alan, as it seems to express how Naomi feels about the meteor shower coming each year on her birthday. You did great to help her be aware of it all those years, and now she and you can see it at the same time wherever you and she are! Did you ever watch the movie Contact with her?
One year from today, Youngest*Son and his Sweetie are to be married. They chose it because it's at the full moon (they became engaged at the full moon on New Year's Eve). So maybe the full moon will rise early over the festivities (it's outdoors) or the meteor shower will be in full swing. Either way, it's a cosmic event and they will have Perseid every Anniversary, as well.
Looking up at the sky last night (our sightings were nearly identical to yours, it seems!) Hubby commented that here we are zooming along through space while the Earth turns and goes around the Sun. We seem to be just sitting here but we're really traveling millions of miles each hour, and all that is between us and all of outer space is a thin sheet of atmosphere. (The old Earth as a basketball and the atmosphere as a thin sheet of paper image.) Very cool.
Interesting tidbit: Some people are saying the Chicago public schools should have taken "heat days" yesterday and today. But the schools insist heat is not snow. And besides, kids are as well off in sweltering schoolrooms as in sweltering apartments or homes.
Muggy plus muggy today. Just warm -- 80ยบ, but very difficult to work in. AND. . . . Almost the whole studio area cleared! Going to try to tighten that room up so it can be used this winter! Heated and everything! Cooter's done a major job of sorting, sweeping, carrying things up attic (drop down stairs) ladders, burning, fetching, carrying ~~ just all around master worker. Did I mention that I lurv this kid?
Oh, pooh! There's been a disturbed mouse running around. Just discovered why. Of course, it's babies, tiny tiny babies. Dang!
Dad finally worked out how to get the adapters into my 45s (I guess it really does take an engineer to figure out some things) and explained it to me. So, today I got one into a Barry Manilow record, "I Write the Songs." It gave me a small but definite sense of accomplishment.
I think mine is the 13th comment on Friday the 13th. It has been an appropriately strange day. Caught and rehomed this year's groundhog. Hubby is now waiting until Monday on Lyme test; the nurse couldn't figure out which Lyme test was ordered. Heh. For this we're paying $1100.00 per month for health insurance.
How old are the babies? If you can move the nest into a box then capture the babies and put them into the nest, then have-a-heart capture the Mama and take them all to where you want them, open the trap and Mama will move those babies outta there in less than 5 minutes.
Actually, it all goes a lot faster if you have-a-heart capture Mama Mouse first. Heh. We had a nest of them in a hutch that was brought in from the garage last year, and we took the lot of them outside to a sheltered spot.
Spent the last couple of day catching up on final items, including locating, downloading, and installing my free copy of Office Home and Business 2010. Free because I bought Office 2007 after March 5. I like the new Outlook better because I can adjust the font size on the message list to something I can read without uping the ZoomText magnification. The display now takes two lines instead of one, but that's fine with me.
Also put the telescope on my glasses back together. When I first got it almost any jar would knock it out of the glasses and often pop the front lens, but a few dabs of rubber cement fixed that. For years. But rubber cement doesn't last forever. On Wednesday the telescope simply dropped out of the glasses. A few drops on rubber cement has now fixed it once again, but this is another reminder I should make the effort to get new glasses.
So I've got a few days -- probably not much more than the weekend -- before work comes in again. Rather than going back to The Whip of Abadue I've decided to file away that last stack of reference papers on the floor. There'll still be a stack on top of my bookcase, but that's not at all in the way.
I don't know if this applies to the MacBook, but on my older desktop computer the fan revving up meant the computer was getting hot. The solution is to give it a rest from computation-intensive activity, take it to someplace with air conditoning, or both.
They were about the 1/2 the size of small grapes. We'd already destroyed the nest by the time Scotty found the babies huddled in a crack in the floor. We left, and she moved them under the dresser. Now she just has to go looking for nest material. Maybe I'll put some cotton out for her. . . . Done!
Some mice make more than one nest, so she may have a spare somewhere. If the babies are gone in the morning, she had it covered. She just couldn't move them with you nearby. It's still good to put out nest material, just incase. Good for you. ♥
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ReplyDeletePerseid viewing is excellent here tonight! It's so clear you can see the Milky Way, and I saw my first meteor less than one minute after I went outside. It's been a long week here, and that really brightened my spirits.
ReplyDeleteThanks, listener.
ReplyDeleteOh, the Milky Way! We could regularly see it where I grew up, but not here. But the sky is pretty dark for being on the edge of a large city. Rather hazy tonight, but we went out and saw eight in an hour, three notable ones. Naomi was born on the 12th, and we have made it a family tradition to watch the meteors this night. Unfortunately we can't be together this year.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a drawing Naomi made re the Perseid meteor shower:
http://tanukinao.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d27ad3x
We have a zippier Internet connection now! Account not completely set up, but connection working anyway. Very good. Much zippier iMac ordered but not yet shipped, various accessories already received. New and bigger computer desk partly assembled, will trade dinner for help of two nice young single fellows from work next week to remove old desk and get new one assembled and installed. DAV [Disabled American Veterans] will pick up the old desk.
Will be at Salt Mine No. 2 this weekend, new boss is cranky about Internet use, so will not be able to check in for a couple of days.
TTFN
That's a sweet drawing, Alan, as it seems to express how Naomi feels about the meteor shower coming each year on her birthday. You did great to help her be aware of it all those years, and now she and you can see it at the same time wherever you and she are! Did you ever watch the movie Contact with her?
ReplyDeleteOne year from today, Youngest*Son and his Sweetie are to be married. They chose it because it's at the full moon (they became engaged at the full moon on New Year's Eve). So maybe the full moon will rise early over the festivities (it's outdoors) or the meteor shower will be in full swing. Either way, it's a cosmic event and they will have Perseid every Anniversary, as well.
Looking up at the sky last night (our sightings were nearly identical to yours, it seems!) Hubby commented that here we are zooming along through space while the Earth turns and goes around the Sun. We seem to be just sitting here but we're really traveling millions of miles each hour, and all that is between us and all of outer space is a thin sheet of atmosphere. (The old Earth as a basketball and the atmosphere as a thin sheet of paper image.) Very cool.
Interesting tidbit: Some people are saying the Chicago public schools should have taken "heat days" yesterday and today. But the schools insist heat is not snow. And besides, kids are as well off in sweltering schoolrooms as in sweltering apartments or homes.
ReplyDeleteMisty here last night ~~ no stars.
ReplyDeleteMuggy plus muggy today. Just warm -- 80ยบ, but very difficult to work in. AND. . . . Almost the whole studio area cleared! Going to try to tighten that room up so it can be used this winter! Heated and everything! Cooter's done a major job of sorting, sweeping, carrying things up attic (drop down stairs) ladders, burning, fetching, carrying ~~ just all around master worker. Did I mention that I lurv this kid?
Oh, pooh! There's been a disturbed mouse running around. Just discovered why. Of course, it's babies, tiny tiny babies. Dang!
Seems like you could go get in a tub of water at home. . . .
ReplyDeleteHi guys :wave:
ReplyDeleteDad finally worked out how to get the adapters into my 45s (I guess it really does take an engineer to figure out some things) and explained it to me. So, today I got one into a Barry Manilow record, "I Write the Songs." It gave me a small but definite sense of accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteNow, if I could just download the current contents of my Earthlink inbox to Thunderbird, I'd be content...for a while. *wry grin*
ReplyDeleteThat'd have made me content, too, lol! Alas, not to be.
ReplyDeleteMama mouse came and fetched her babies, which are now under the oak chest. Sans nest.
I think mine is the 13th comment on Friday the 13th. It has been an appropriately strange day. Caught and rehomed this year's groundhog. Hubby is now waiting until Monday on Lyme test; the nurse couldn't figure out which Lyme test was ordered. Heh. For this we're paying $1100.00 per month for health insurance.
ReplyDeleteHow old are the babies? If you can move the nest into a box then capture the babies and put them into the nest, then have-a-heart capture the Mama and take them all to where you want them, open the trap and Mama will move those babies outta there in less than 5 minutes.
ReplyDeleteActually, it all goes a lot faster if you have-a-heart capture Mama Mouse first. Heh. We had a nest of them in a hutch that was brought in from the garage last year, and we took the lot of them outside to a sheltered spot.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what to do when your MacBook's internal fan starts sounding louder?
ReplyDeleteSpent the last couple of day catching up on final items, including locating, downloading, and installing my free copy of Office Home and Business 2010. Free because I bought Office 2007 after March 5. I like the new Outlook better because I can adjust the font size on the message list to something I can read without uping the ZoomText magnification. The display now takes two lines instead of one, but that's fine with me.
ReplyDeleteAlso put the telescope on my glasses back together. When I first got it almost any jar would knock it out of the glasses and often pop the front lens, but a few dabs of rubber cement fixed that. For years. But rubber cement doesn't last forever. On Wednesday the telescope simply dropped out of the glasses. A few drops on rubber cement has now fixed it once again, but this is another reminder I should make the effort to get new glasses.
So I've got a few days -- probably not much more than the weekend -- before work comes in again. Rather than going back to The Whip of Abadue I've decided to file away that last stack of reference papers on the floor. There'll still be a stack on top of my bookcase, but that's not at all in the way.
I don't know if this applies to the MacBook, but on my older desktop computer the fan revving up meant the computer was getting hot. The solution is to give it a rest from computation-intensive activity, take it to someplace with air conditoning, or both.
ReplyDeleteThey were about the 1/2 the size of small grapes. We'd already destroyed the nest by the time Scotty found the babies huddled in a crack in the floor. We left, and she moved them under the dresser. Now she just has to go looking for nest material. Maybe I'll put some cotton out for her. . . . Done!
ReplyDeleteThat's insane. I hope they are at least using a lot of fans and making sure the kids have sufficient water!!
ReplyDeleteSome mice make more than one nest, so she may have a spare somewhere. If the babies are gone in the morning, she had it covered. She just couldn't move them with you nearby. It's still good to put out nest material, just incase. Good for you. ♥
ReplyDeleteNo A/C here! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI turned it off for several hours. Son says to vacuum it or blow some canned air into it. So that's on tap for tomorrow.