Good morning my friends. Did it rain at your house last night? By golly, it did here in Kinston. We saw animals beginning to pair up in the parking lot, so we started looking for a big boat. But, get this; we saw a beautiful winter sky anyway that was filled with the most beautiful stars. Well, I guess you are asking yourself by now how we did that if it was pouring rain…read on my friends. We just laid our heads back and looked heavenward and there they were right above us. The Milky Way, Orion, Taurus, Ursa, Leo, Gemini, the Twins, The Big Dipper, and all those other dudes in the sky shone brightly over our heads. We had the distinct pleasure of being treated to a private showing in Kinston’s very own planetarium. Can you imagine, having our very own planetarium in Mooresville? When I was a kid growing up, we would have been hard pressed to find anyone who could even spell planetarium, unless it would have been Bill Wilhelm. The nice young lady who took her time out from her family on this nasty night for this private showing was very knowledgeable about astronomy, but more importantly she was very patient with this group of Exchangites who were probably more exasperating than a group of first-graders. I was just getting ready to tell Vickie the name of a star that I had been looking for when the lady told us before I could whisper the answer. Well, I was going to share the name of it with you folks this morning and I have been lying awake since 2:30 trying to recall it…I hate getting old. I kept thinking the name of it was Laodecia or something that sounded kind of like that, but I think that was the name of a country in the Bible…wait, I got it. It’s Cassiopeia!! I knew it would come to me sooner or later. Anyway, I guess some of the learned folks of long ago had a lot of time on their hands and lay around in the pasture like we used to do at night and look up the star-filled night and try to make something out of what we saw. But, I’ll just be danged if I can figure out where they came up with the names of some of those constellations. She pointed out Gemini to us and after a few minutes of extreme concentration, I may have seen a boy with two heads and a tail. Maybe more kids today would go into astronomy if they would just take time to get far out in the country at night away from all the man-made lights, and lie on their backs and look heavenward and see the awesome magnitude of this glorious universe that our Good Lord has made. The Kinston Exchange club went out of their way to treat us very special and for that we are very grateful. Three of the members stayed out in the cold rain and grilled some Boston Butt for us and fixed baked beans and tater salad, not Ron White, real tater salad. The Exchange Club of Kinston owns the building where they fed and pampered us and it is adjacent to the Neuse Nature Preserve and the planetarium. The only thing they couldn’t do for us was to stop the rain, but that was okay, nobody rusted. I got to bed at 11:30 and woke up at 2:30 just like clockwork, so I might nod off at some of the meetings today, but please don’t tell anyone. Have a good day and try to find some sunshine. God Bless!!
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:30:36 +0000
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