We brought up some old wooden lounge chairs I meant to Freecycle months ago. They're cheap, rickety, splintery and not very comfortable, but great for a cabin. After we unpacked and settled in, about midnight we poured some wine and sat out to star gaze. The stars are amazing up here, the Milky Way is a huge white swath spreading wide across the night sky! And then a loud SNAP, CRACKLE and POP!!! - over he goes - feet up pointing to the stars, head and shoulders wacking the ground . . . but he spilled very little wine (my kinda experienced boozer). It sounded like a tall pine cracking as several of the supports in the flimsy lounge hit the dirt and threw B over.
The damages this morning . . . we couldn't see last night. I guess we're lucky nobody got impaled and bled out from splinters - but we were laughing so hard, we couldn't stop . . . brought back the old days when we were first married and had a Sunbeam Alpine sports car. The latch on the driver's seatback would fail (like just about everything else on that car eventually did) . . . we'd be driving down the freeway and WHAMMMMMMMMMM FLOOOOOP the seatback would totally disappear behind the driver. Keystone Kops. We laughed a lot then too.
We found an old star chart/wheel we used to use - brought it up last night (that's the Milky Way in blue). The top sheet rotates to the current month, day and hour (for this latitude) - it's pretty neat. The only problem is, there's SO many stars to see up here (6,000 ft) it's hard to pick out the constellations, planets, etc. ~N
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