Burning ears
Frday night's planetarium show went all right. I didn't flub my lines. The timing between myself & Russ-the planetarium operator while Patty is in Italy-worked out well. Graphics came up on time, aside from one brief moment at the start, & the planets & constellations moved around in the right order.
Unfortunately, that isn't the reason why my ears feel like they've been sizzled. Yesterday, Elizabeth & I spent most of the day in the beautiful outdoors on the B&A trail in Glen Burnie. For the last several years, we've volunteered as guides on the annual Planet Walk. Normally, Elizabeth picks Pluto, & I just ask to be slotted anywhere. This year: Mercury, about five miles away. Space is big.
Fortunately, we were both on the AM shift, but it really didn't matter. She'd stay there all day if she was asked, & even though she wasn't, she did stay there afer her PM relief arrived. I did much the same at Mercury, but sometime between 1 & 1:30, I cleared out for the planetary hinterlands, since Elizabeth had the car.
It would have been tempting to hit all of the planets, but honestly, I didn't want to overexert my heart, so I stopped after a mile, at the Saturn station, behind the Marley Mall. Elizabeth drove down, picked me up, & we had a slowly served & so-so meal at a local bistro, followed by an impressively stacked ice cream cone apiece at Bruster's. Got home, laid down for a bit of shut-eye, & got up with ears so red that I'm amazed that I couldn't read by their glow. At least I wore a ballcap, so my scalp escaped that torture.
Unfortunately, that isn't the reason why my ears feel like they've been sizzled. Yesterday, Elizabeth & I spent most of the day in the beautiful outdoors on the B&A trail in Glen Burnie. For the last several years, we've volunteered as guides on the annual Planet Walk. Normally, Elizabeth picks Pluto, & I just ask to be slotted anywhere. This year: Mercury, about five miles away. Space is big.
Fortunately, we were both on the AM shift, but it really didn't matter. She'd stay there all day if she was asked, & even though she wasn't, she did stay there afer her PM relief arrived. I did much the same at Mercury, but sometime between 1 & 1:30, I cleared out for the planetary hinterlands, since Elizabeth had the car.
It would have been tempting to hit all of the planets, but honestly, I didn't want to overexert my heart, so I stopped after a mile, at the Saturn station, behind the Marley Mall. Elizabeth drove down, picked me up, & we had a slowly served & so-so meal at a local bistro, followed by an impressively stacked ice cream cone apiece at Bruster's. Got home, laid down for a bit of shut-eye, & got up with ears so red that I'm amazed that I couldn't read by their glow. At least I wore a ballcap, so my scalp escaped that torture.