Meteor. Trampoline. Zero Gravity.
August 12th, 2007 @ 20:51
Posted by: Jimmie
Must Do – Go take a nap right now so that even if (like me) you have to go to work tomorrow you can set your alarm clock for 2am when the show peaks and go outside to watch the Perseids Meteor Shower!!!
Mike Karshis says he’s going to watch from a hotel pool in the hill country! Now that’s planning ahead.
Me, I’ll be slathered in cutter missing my trampoline stretched out in a zero gravity chair.
August 13th, 2007 00:01
I speak “Jimmie” so let me translate. Trampoline. Over the past 13 or 14 years we’ve been in the habit of laying on the kid’s trampoline to watch meteor showers. It’s nice and comfortable to lay on. She’s missing it tonight because our children have gotten older and have lost most of their interest it in and we’ve stopped getting new tops. They wear out every three or four years under the burning sun. Taylor has informed Jimmie that he’s waking her up at 2:00 to walk out and go shooting star hunting.
I just got home and was telling Jimmie that our friend Ray Chappa called earlier to say that he was viewing the meteor showers over the ocean from the end of the North Jetty in Port Aransas last night. You have to understand how cool that is. The North side of the Jetty is on St. Jo Island and there aren’t any bridges to it so you have to take a boat before dark, spend the night and then take a boat back in the morning. It’s rare for anybody else to be there and there’s no light pollution at all. They just take cots and sleep right there on the jetty. Wouldn’t you just love to do that?
The other thing he called to say was that he took a picture of Jimmie catching a big redfish and it’s in this month’s issue of South Texas Fishing magazine.