Hokay campers, let’s see…where was I? Oh, yeah. I’d just wound-up an awfully sweet first night at the Chiefland Astronomy Village. It was after two o’clock in the a.m., which you young sprouts prob’ly consider “way-early,” but I was...

Do y’all mind if I do a little skippin’ around? Last week we talked about Night One of my Herschel 2 Quest down at the Chiefland Astronomy Village. I hit it hard again the following evening, that time with the Stellacam II. Like I said last week,...

Ida came, and Ida went. The arrival of the out-of-season hurricane that had us Gulf Coast denizens so het-up for a few days was actually pretty anticlimactic. She did indeed pass right over good old Chaos Manor South, her eye making a beeline up Mobile...

Or, as an alternate title, “Some Days You Eat the Bear; Some Days the Bear Eats You.” Mr. Bear didn’t get me Saturday night before last, but I did come home with a few claw marks on my posterior. I’d had high hopes for the weather, since we’d...

Yep, you called it; you are being skunked out of yet another blog entry, muchachos. Your old Uncle Rod’s spirit is willing, but his flesh is all too weak after three nights of hittin’ The Herschel Project hard in my late-middle-aged fashion down...