Saturday Aug 8 was an impromptu workday. Kevin Collins, Tom Walker, and Rich finished off the "mouse proofing" of the telescope shed by installing new doors (thanks Kevin's brother!), installing trim work, and adding vents. It was a full day's effort, but things are looking great and if a mouse can still get in to that shed, I'd love to know how. (By the way, it will now be very important to keep the doors securely closed at all times other than actively loading or unloading telescopes, or we risk re-infestation. Now our main problem seems to be ants! I treated the perimeter with Ant-B-Gone, but we still need to spray to knock out the ants already nesting in the walls.
Jonathan Klinkowski helped keep the generator running smoothly and also helped out with the shed work and some mowing, then treated us all to some great burgers. Ray Burk was a week whacking demon, and John Davis mowed between the pavilion and the telescope shed. I got the Pilated Path opened up all the way to Land's End, and started clearing back down the Klondike Trail until I ran into some blowdown that will require a chainsaw to clear.
Not a bad day's effort for a "non-workday".
After the work party, my wife and son Tyler and our friends the Markens came up to the hill. After a session picking berries at Bashan Hill, we lauched a couple of rockets, hiked out to Land's End, picnicked in the pavilion, then built a campfire and just soaking in the Arunah Hill ambiance under overcast skies with predictions of approaching rain. To my great surprise, some pretty large wholes in the clouds opened up. Tyler and I scurried to ready the Gaertner, and to my surprise we had very steady seeing and great views of Jupiter and the just-past-full moon. We caught a shadow transit on Jupiter, and lots of details in the cloud bands.
-Ed
Jonathan Klinkowski helped keep the generator running smoothly and also helped out with the shed work and some mowing, then treated us all to some great burgers. Ray Burk was a week whacking demon, and John Davis mowed between the pavilion and the telescope shed. I got the Pilated Path opened up all the way to Land's End, and started clearing back down the Klondike Trail until I ran into some blowdown that will require a chainsaw to clear.
Not a bad day's effort for a "non-workday".
After the work party, my wife and son Tyler and our friends the Markens came up to the hill. After a session picking berries at Bashan Hill, we lauched a couple of rockets, hiked out to Land's End, picnicked in the pavilion, then built a campfire and just soaking in the Arunah Hill ambiance under overcast skies with predictions of approaching rain. To my great surprise, some pretty large wholes in the clouds opened up. Tyler and I scurried to ready the Gaertner, and to my surprise we had very steady seeing and great views of Jupiter and the just-past-full moon. We caught a shadow transit on Jupiter, and lots of details in the cloud bands.
-Ed
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