I meant pass me the stuffing from the turkey 

Turkey Day

OK, it’s time to see if my typing has improved since I started writing to this blog, so I’m going to test myself right now, in front of everyone. Fingers at the home or the default position. READY, SET GO!
Tgd wxigm brpwm foc ku,ped oxet the lszw btowm gog/ Done, not bad if I must say so myself. As anyone can tell I was typing the quick brown fox jumped over the laze brown dog. I did it really, really fast and I think it went quite well. Don’t you?
Now on to things more relevant to today. Thanksgiving Day is almost upon us. I have a lot of people that flip me the bird, usually when I am behind the wheel [think it could be my driving?] but now I will actually get a to eat the bird. But first I must ask the good people of the worldwide web for their help.
What I want, no! What I need, to know is how you can put a turkey in an oven at 350 degrees for hours without the feathers catching fire? If I can solve this problem then I think I will finally end up with a turkey that I can eat. This year I did something very different, I shot my own turkey. I would recommend everyone try this at least once in his or her lifetime. I found it very exciting even know there were a few problems. The biggest one was when the pellets from the bird shot I used in the shotgun ricochet off the bird and shattered my neighbors window injuring said neighbor. I can’t say that I am real sorry about the neighbor because judging by the part of the body that got hit by the flying glass he had to be flashing me the moon at the time of the incident. In hindsight [no pun intended] I probably should have thawed the bird out before taking it outside to shoot it. Pellets won’t ricochet off a thawed bird, no ricochet no problem. Next year I think I will just shoot my bird in the supermarket, I don’t see how that could be a problem, do you? Well my computer parts came in so I can replace this old slow relic, so I’m off to build a little better computer then what I use now.
This is me saying good by to you till whenever.

Pictures of the Northern Lights

I posted some pictures of the Northern Lights that took place on Nov. 9th.
They are not pictures I took, but they are what I saw, at least a small part of what I saw. I downloaded them from spaceweather.com .
Anyone in New England looking up at the sky at the right time would have seen the same thing. Ok it is dinner time and I am hungry and fading fast, must eat. This is me saying good bye to you for now.

Taken near Quebec City Nov. 9th 

Taken near Quebec City Nov 9th 

Northern Lights taken in Manchester NH sometime on the night of Nov. 9th 

OH WHAT A NIGHT!

OH WHAT A NIGHT!
Well last night and early this morning I had the good fortune of seeing the Northern lights [AKA—Aurora Borealis ]. They started about 9:30pm and went on for the entire night right up till daylight I am told. I stayed up till 3:15 in the morning watching the sky myself. It went back and forth from quiet displays to some of the most awesome displays I have ever seen. Not that I have seen them that many times, this was only my fifth time.
They had to be impressive for me to spend as much time as I did outside in two degree weather. I went out at 9:30pm for the first display and watch a good show that kept me outside till 10:pm when it subsided to a quite display, just a little action on the horizon. I picked this time to go in the house and get warm. It was a balmy seven degrees at that time. I went and got the young man [Andrew] that lives next door to me and we watch the first display on my deck together, he like myself thinks the northern lights are an awesome sight. When I went in to get warm he headed home to get warm and get some sleep he is only fifteen and needed the rest for that school thing. I kept an eye out for the display to start up again. I have found with my vast experience [all five of my sightings] that they always give you a much better second show in an hour or less. This night was no exception, at about 11pm I noticed the lights getting very active again so I put on my coat and hat and back outside I went. By this time it was down to 5 degrees, Ten minutes into a great show Andrew showed up on my deck, He noticed the new activity just before going to bed and could not resist the chance to see more of them. He will have a rough day at school tomorrow I’m sure, for we stayed outside watching this great spectacle till at least 11:45pm. At this time the lights went back to quiet displays and Andrew went home to get some sleep once again, and I retreated back into the house hoping that my feet would thaw out and that my toes would not break off. I thought that would be the last of the flair ups for the night, but I kept an eye looking out my windows for more active displays just in case. I did end up going outside a few times to get a better look at some very good but short activities. Just before 2:00am I decided to call it a night and go to bed, but I took one last look out the window and I’m glad I did. I could see streaks of dark green coming off the horizon and I took that to be a sign of another big display on the way, so outside I went once again, this time it was only two degrees. I was wrong, this display was bigger then big it stretched the whole length of the northern horizon and out to the middle of the sky. In one place you would see the lights crisscrossing each other like they were in a fierce sword fight. Turn your head a little and you would see waves of light moving across the sky at a rapid pace, turn a little more and you would see just an eerie patch of green light. It was like trying to watch three or four TVs at one time. I can remember thinking if I knew nothing about the northern lights I would surely think I was watching the world come to it’s end. I could feel the hair standing up on the back of my neck. This was by far the most awesome thing that I have seen in my lifetime to date. I never felt the cold outside for the first twenty minutes I was too fascinated with the lights. When I did notice the cold I forced myself to stay out there for another 10 minutes. Then I went inside to get warm and watch the rest of the show from my picture window, but that lasted only about twenty minutes then I saw that the lights were forming bright green oblong shapes. It was like watching someone draw them on the sky, so back out in the cold I went for another ten minutes. By 3:15am they were back to just a quite display so I rushed to bed before I felt the pull from the lights taking me outside again. I heard there was a good display at about 5:00am but I was in bed by then. I was disappointed a number of times this fall because I was lock in with clouds and missed out on other chances too see lights. But last night made up for it. And because of that I got up this morning feeling like the luckiest man in the world.
This is me saying good by to you till another day

OH CRAP

OH CRAP!!! Four more years of G. W.

BOO!!!!

Well Halloween has been and gone. I only had about ten ghost and goblins, I was ready for fifty or more. That’s the way it always goes if I prepare for fifty I get less then a dozen if I prepare for a dozen I get fifty.
Last year I handed out candy dressed as a priest and scared the hell out of the little snot monsters.
This year I wanted to dress as Michael Jackson and really scare the hell out of them. But I couldn’t find a store that would sell me just one glove, don’t know how he get them. I guess you can get stores to break a pair up when you have the big bucks. But it turns out that I didn’t need a costume the snot monsters seem to be pretty scared anyway, I guess they have never seen a neck breather before. It couldn’t have been my looks because I know I am a great looking person, I carry a note on me that I wrote that says so, so it must be true. Tomorrow is another big day we all get to vote, I for one will be up and at the polls early in the morning. Now as to who I will be voting for [ imagine an MC announcing here ] Butch aka layz will be casting his vote [drum roll here] for *********. Ha, ha gotcha, I hope you all vote for him to. If today’s posting makes no sense to you it is not my fault because I am all hopped up on sugar from eating that left over candy. It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it. However that job will be left unfinished due to an upset stomach that is forcing me to bed early tonight. I need to be well rested and in tiptop shape to cast my vote tomorrow, so this is me saying good bye to you till whenever.