Gone...

Mrs. Mustang and I are headed out for awhile. Two weeks in fact. One week in Berlin, Germany; and then one week in Paris, France. Tough duty....

I will post pictures if possible, along with pithy literary ramblings about the post-Cold War reconstruction, excellent trains, good beer, and such.

Thanks to everyone (Lecram, Kosima, SSM, and others) for the advice, directions and well wishes. This is our first real vacation in 13 years, so we are hoping for the best.

M

And that was all it was....

The picture says it all..before, impact, after.

Raced home from Lecram's always-stellar BBQ Pit & Ta-Ta Review, pulled out the ol' 8-incher (telescope ladies, please behave) and set up for a night in lunar bombardment. I was still realing from an overdose of bbq pit smoke, as I commandered the post of Head Meat Burner (once again), and several adult beverages handed to me in gratitude for my meat-heating skills, but also out of pitty for my efforts at the 'Q in the face of a 100 degree day in the big 'NO. So, I was sitting there, all agog, and....nothing. Couldn't/didn't see squat. Dissapointed. The above pictures were taken by a 3.7 meter (about 12 foot) diameter telescope in Hawaii, up on some cold dead volcano. Me, I was using the ol' trusty 0.235 meter telescope in my highly air-polluted back yard. Go figure. More late when Blogger will let me create paragraphs.