Month: October 2023

Alice Cooper Does New Mexico

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I went to see Alice Cooper last night. It was a fun concert. He is still a great showman. I was about 25 feet from the stage in the center. I got four guitar picks thrown by the guitarists, but I only kept one. The people around me really wanted those picks. Nita Strauss does great hair whips. I caught a lot of them. Ryan Roxie and Tommy Hendriksen rocked on their guitars. Chuck Garric played a mean bass, and Glenn Sobel was fantastic on the drums. I assume Alice’s daughter, Calico, played the Pirate, but I can’t say for sure. Alice had a boa constrictor close to the same size as my Blue. Cold Ethyl had the same hair as Sia. Hmmm! Alice lost his head, of course. Here are some photos from the show. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

GBH & SHC Lonely Chordata Dinosauria Club

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pTerodactyl hanging hopeful on the edge of a pathetic puddle.

pTerodactyl pacing on the edge and reflecting on a pathetic puddle.

We have received zero precipitation for the month of October, and less than an inch of rain over the previous three months, so the Clearwater Ditch is drying up south of us. Only a few puddles remain. There is a little more water in the Clearwater Ditch north of us, backed up behind beaver dams.

A lone juvenile Sandhill Crane was hanging out on the ditch bank foraging in the sand.

A 70th Anniversary

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We celebrated Jim and Ann’s (Laurie’s parents) 70th wedding anniversary today.

We had a shindig

Jim with his Studebaker convertible. Ann wearing the dress she got married in.

Jim was in the Navy in San Diego in 1953. He didn’t want to have a blood test before they could get married, which was required in California, so they drove to Yuma, Arizona, to get married because pre-nuptial blood tests were not required in Arizona.

On their way to Yuma, AZ, to get married.

La Familia: Liz, Lea, Ann, Jim, Lane, and Laurie.

Happy 70th Anniversary!

Burned

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My Canon sun filter got burned by the sun.

I had not tested my Canon sun filter for the Bazooka before the eclipse. I should have. Since it fits at the back of the lens, the sun simply burned through it. I used an old iPhone 6 with a single lens to photograph the eclipse through the eyepiece of my telescope. I didn’t have time to mess with putting a camera on the telescope, plus people wanted to look through the telescope because the clarity was amazing.

Eclipse Shark

Since I had to move the iPhone around on the eyepiece for each photo, the GIF is a bit jumpy.

From the bazooka at ring time

The color of the sun becomes whiter as the eclipse advances because the phone’s camera overexposed the sun because of the dark side of the moon.