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items.
Got back to the camper…I told Kim I would be sitting outside waiting for
him to call me if he needed help. After
assuring me that he wouldn’t need help, he got busy. Wasn’t long before he called me to come see
the results. Two shelves on my side of
the camper and one on his side. I didn’t ask for two…he simply put two on my
side because of available space.
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We don’t have a lot of shopping options out here…Wal-Mart being the only
place in Coolidge for housewares, so we started there. Yep, they had a wastebasket and bottled water
but no shelving supplies or chair cushions. But they did have cheap pillows…Kim
was skeptical, but I was willing to take a chance that they’d do the job, so we
bought three. Kim was right to be
skeptical…it wasn’t long after we got back that he ordered some regular chair cushions
with tie-downs from Amazon. They’ll be here on Tuesday. I think the pillows are
better than nothing, but I look forward to not sliding around at the slightest
movement.
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On the way to Coolidge, I told Kim that I’d like to get a cheap, small Bluetooth
speaker for music in the camper. I forgot to grab the Boom-Bar from the sewing
room, so we haven’t had any music playing.
We could each use our earbuds and retreat into our own little worlds but
where’s the fun in that? I figured Wal-Mart
would have a speaker that fit my criteria…cheap and small. Cheap because I have a speaker at home and
small because we don’t need the clutter.
When we got to the right section in the Electronics Department, I
started pointing out what I thought would work. Kim told me to go do something
else. He claimed picking out a speaker as his job…I think I heard him mutter
something about me picking out a pop-can sized speaker that would sound like a
pop-can and that wasn't going to happen on his watch. I went to find the bottled water and left
him to it. He found a JBL smaller than pop-can sized speaker with a big sound…and
it didn’t break the bank. I tested it
with Tracy Chapman, Chris Stapleton, Toby Keith, John Denver and more…not a tinny pop can sound to be heard. 😎
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Girl Scouts are setting up shop outside stores trying to reel in some
sales. Kim took the bait, but only
bought one box and told them to keep the rest of the $20 as a donation. Thin mints and Peanut Butter Sandwiches are
my favorites…and now I’ll be adding Adventurefuls to the list. Yum!
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Kim had to work out some bugs in his scope set-up earlier but he’s now happily
imaging the Rosette Nebula. Well,
technically, he’s been in the camper and the scope is doing the imaging, but that’s
a minor detail. He programmed it to do a meridian flip when necessary and to
shut down in three hours, which would be about 11 p.m. When I think back to what he had to do when
we first came out here 9 years ago and compare that to his process today, it’s
light years apart. (Yes, pun intended.) In fact, there’s a framed picture hanging
in the clubhouse that he took 6 years ago that made him cringe when he saw it
the other day. The images he gets today are so much more detailed due to not
only his scope equipment but also his processing software. He just walked out there to see how it’s going…it
had clouded over so tonight’s imaging is over.
But he did say that he was very pleased with the results he was seeing. Nothing
on the card, so that means it was storing the images on the ASI-Air. Everything’s
been shut down and covered up for the night so he’ll get his images tomorrow.
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