Archives for December 2007

Mars Pic

Published on 22 Dec 2007 at 6:41 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Astronomy.

Mars is on its closest approach for the next 9 years, so I checked it out a few nights ago. They aren’t kidding when they call it the most disappointing object in amateur astronomy. I hoped that computer enhancement would help out a bit, but not much.

As always, gear was an Orion XT8i scope and […]

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New Workshop

Published on 14 Dec 2007 at 10:03 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under True Stories, Art, Wood.

So, I was complaining about how I was out of room on my workbench and had no real room to expand. Kathy’s response: why not rearrange this stuff like this, do this, and take over the whole other side of the basement instead? Woo hoo!
The last project I did before rearranging was a limberjack, an […]

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