Rich and Debbie Volant may have 'accidental" started a new annual Arunah Hill tradition... the Memorial Day Weekend stargazing and bar-b-que grazing camp out. By Saturday night, the Volants, the Pielocks, the Faits, Joe Zuraw, Ray Burk, Bruce Blanchard, Bob Osgood, and John Davis were cooking up a pot luck storm around the campfire... chilis, hot dogs, ribs, lasagna, a bolide stew and more. It was the first time I had ever eaten bolide stew in daylight.
DeeDee passed around the book "Dutch Oven Recipes", and by the end of the night we were all planning next year's menu.
A clear sunset showed off Venus and a great gibbous moon in Rich's giant binoculars, but the clouds raced in before we could pick off Mercury and Saturn. Rich was setting up a test of some radio observing of Jupiter, results unknow when I left the hill. Rich?
After cloudout, Joe and Bruce entertained with songs around the campfire. We're all going to write our local reps to get Arlo's "Massachusetts" to be the state song!
-Ed F 5/28/07
Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day Weekend on the Hill
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From Rich:
The first annual Arunah food orgy was a riot. Even Bob showed up! Was good to see everyone having so much fun at each others expense.
By the way, those were Johns mega binoculars. They are really huge. We would have stayed all weekend but I caught a bad cold and everyone disappeared by Sunday
so we decided to go home. A couple of other people showed up while we were packing. I guess next time we will plan on a one day event. Was good to see everyone. We had a great time. Here's to next year's potluck.
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