Well, not really the first but the only one that stuck.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thanksgivings
We had an early Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the 
family. We went down to my uncles house and I drove all five hours (that deserves a post of its own)! When everyone was there we actually ate hotdogs and hamburgers. We had the turkey later on. The ambulance was called, football was watched, and the moons were full. And to top it all off we went to the basket warehouse and I bought ceramic mushrooms, I'm very excited about them.
Dad had his traditional nap. This year he had company.
family. We went down to my uncles house and I drove all five hours (that deserves a post of its own)! When everyone was there we actually ate hotdogs and hamburgers. We had the turkey later on. The ambulance was called, football was watched, and the moons were full. And to top it all off we went to the basket warehouse and I bought ceramic mushrooms, I'm very excited about them.
Dad had his traditional nap. This year he had company.Then we had our family Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving. I ate much more than was good for me but so did everyone else, hence is was justified. Everybody laughed at me when I said that the table reminded me of the ocean. Well, not really the ocean as much as a captain's cabin on an old pirate ship. 
The food was good. As was everything else. We played scrabble, which Stephen's girlfriend Jaimie beat everyone. I kept score instead of actually playing. We then played dominion, its a lot of fun and there is no way to describe it, so I wont. 
Give thanks in all things.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Lunar Halo
I saw one of these fabulous sightings last night above our house. Though the one I saw was very dim compared to the pictures I borrowed from google images. So no, the picture below is not my house. 
I have never heard of a lunar halo before and I find them most fascinating. So I shall tell you all about them.
The ring that appears around the moon arises from light passing through six-sided ice crystals high in the atmosphere. These ice crystals refract, or bend, light in the same manner that a camera lens bends light. The ring has a diameter of 22 degrees, and sometimes, if you are lucky, it is also possible to detect a second ring, 44 degrees in diameter. Thin high cirrus clouds lofting at 20,000 feet or more contain tiny ice crystals that originate from the freezing of super cooled water droplets. These crystals behave like jewels refracting and reflecting in different directions.
The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the moon ring is almost always the same size.
Also, they are sometimes called solar halos. Or if you want to be creative (like my brother and our friend Pete) you can call it a moonbow, a rainbow around the moon. 
They are pretty common and can be seen whenever cirro-stratus clouds are present at the convenient position and the skies are clear.
I have never heard of a lunar halo before and I find them most fascinating. So I shall tell you all about them. Anatomy of a moon halo
The ring that appears around the moon arises from light passing through six-sided ice crystals high in the atmosphere. These ice crystals refract, or bend, light in the same manner that a camera lens bends light. The ring has a diameter of 22 degrees, and sometimes, if you are lucky, it is also possible to detect a second ring, 44 degrees in diameter. Thin high cirrus clouds lofting at 20,000 feet or more contain tiny ice crystals that originate from the freezing of super cooled water droplets. These crystals behave like jewels refracting and reflecting in different directions. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the moon ring is almost always the same size.
Also, they are sometimes called solar halos. Or if you want to be creative (like my brother and our friend Pete) you can call it a moonbow, a rainbow around the moon. They are pretty common and can be seen whenever cirro-stratus clouds are present at the convenient position and the skies are clear. Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Stuff That Shouldn't Happen
I don't know how much I came tell you about this so I shall leave out specifics and tell it as simply as I can. Just so you know, I did not witness this but it was told to me with great detail.
Last week at work an imported shipment came in, it was damaged on one of its corners. The cardboard and tape were ripped open and the content of the box was partly missing. Wrapped in the tissue paper (where the crystal snow flakes should have been) was something that looked like a piece of machinery. Slightly bullet shaped, no bigger than a shoe. Our warehouse manager was afraid to touch it, because it looked like a bomb to him. No one knew what it was so they called the building manager. Before he got there the guy that worked next door came over and picked it up, shaking it, trying to find out what it was. The building manager had never seen anything like it and it freaked him out, so he called the police. The police really did not like what they saw and they left the building as fast as they could taking everybody with them. The police called the bomb squad. Low and behold it was a BOMB! Then the FBI became involved, they showed up at my bosses house and questioned her for over an hour ( they really do wear suits and flip they badge when they arrive). It turned out that the bomb was not active and would not have blow up. The FBI are no longer concerned, so we are not worried. But it was still a bomb and I wasn't there to see it all happen. :(
Last week at work an imported shipment came in, it was damaged on one of its corners. The cardboard and tape were ripped open and the content of the box was partly missing. Wrapped in the tissue paper (where the crystal snow flakes should have been) was something that looked like a piece of machinery. Slightly bullet shaped, no bigger than a shoe. Our warehouse manager was afraid to touch it, because it looked like a bomb to him. No one knew what it was so they called the building manager. Before he got there the guy that worked next door came over and picked it up, shaking it, trying to find out what it was. The building manager had never seen anything like it and it freaked him out, so he called the police. The police really did not like what they saw and they left the building as fast as they could taking everybody with them. The police called the bomb squad. Low and behold it was a BOMB! Then the FBI became involved, they showed up at my bosses house and questioned her for over an hour ( they really do wear suits and flip they badge when they arrive). It turned out that the bomb was not active and would not have blow up. The FBI are no longer concerned, so we are not worried. But it was still a bomb and I wasn't there to see it all happen. :(
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