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What's all this noise about Pluto not being a planet?

In 1987 my brother, Kent, and I went to California to visit our brother, Kim. We all traveled to Big Bear Mountain to a telescope making convention, where your average Joe can display his or her home-made telescope. It was a fun time of camping in the mountains and seeing all of the different types of telescopes. So anyway, the guest on Saturday was Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto. So this is my only claim to fame, meeting Clyde Tombaugh and getting his autograph which is below the picture of Mr. Tombaugh. So, why after all of these year is Pluto being kicked out of out galaxy??? I ask you? Mr. Tombaugh would turn over in his grave if he knew this was happening. After all he did in his lifetime to further education in science this is the thanks he gets. Ok, the reason the scientists are giving for this decision is because using current technology there could be as many as 300 other planets in our galaxy equal to Pluto discovered near us well ...........so does this mean that the Disney Pluto will have to get a new name...like Xeno or something........think about it.......





The thing I remember the most about the convention was that next to our camping spot was a concession booth and they played the sound track from the Wizard of Oz", constantly, they sang every word and did the different voices , the munchkins, the lion, Dorothy, it was a scream....I remember sitting on the tailgate of my brother's red toyota pickup and drinking beer and eating cookies and laughing our asses off at these crazy people. Now that I have actually done the concession thing I can see how they got like that!!!

The Red Hatters making a big splash!

We had our Red Hat swim party at Janet's house. A great time was had by all! Here are a few pix.

Report on mom for family and friends everywhere

It has been quite a while since I have blogged. Mom has been very ill with complications from chemothereapy. She has been in the hospital for 12 days, 7 of them in ICU. Bill and I took her to Mt. Vernon to Good Samaritan Hospital where they found that she was having a heart attack. That night her heart had to be shocked back into it's normal rythum. She then developed a terrible case of pneumonia. All of these things are due to chemo therapy treatments for inflammatry breast cancer. She has had a hard way to go and is now very weak, but we are home and she is sitting in her own living room watching tv and sometimes on the internet. She has to use a walker, but has been leaving tracks all over the carpet in her apartment, so she is trying to build her strength back up, but as I said is very very weak. She is in good spirits and I have been working during the day and staying here at night. It is always nice to be around her she is such a trooper and a loving kind person, I just wish it wasn't because she is ill, I wish we were just going to our Red Hat meetings and our Clay Aiken concerts and out to lunch, but that will have to wait until later. Thanks to all for the prayers, cards and phone calls. The only bright spot were several visits by Shelley and baby Garret, he is growing and is so cute. and can not decide on which end to wear his pants.......hugs from grandma.