LivingOurDream

Thursday, December 12, 2019

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Sandy & Carl
Living & Traveling in our Motorhome
Volunteering across America
greenbaum2@gmail.com
www.livingourdream2011.blogspot.com
617-435-8502

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Electric Night

Hi All,

One of the most stunning APOD photos ever.

It may appear, at first, like the Galaxy is producing the lightning, but really it's the Earth. The featured nighttime landscape was taken from a southern tip of the Italian Island of Sardinia in early June. The foreground rocks and shrubs are near the famous Capo Spartivento Lighthouse, and the camera is pointed south toward Algeria in Africa. In the distance, across the Mediterranean Sea, a thunderstorm is threatening, with several electric lightni ng strokes caught togetherduring this 25-second wide-angle exposure. Much farther in the distance, strewn about the sky, are hundreds of stars in the neighborhood of our Sun in the Milky Way Galaxy. Furthest away, and slanting down from the upper left, are billions of stars that together compose the central band of our Milky Way.

Love,

Sandy & Carl

Living & Traveling in our Motorhome

Volunteering across America

greenbaum2@gmail.com

www.livingourdream2011.blogspot.com

617-435-8502

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Omaha

Hi All,

Catching up on emails.

We got to Omaha the day before Yom Kippur. We drove to Audubon, IA to visit our 99 year old friend Mary Ellen. Her mobility is limited but she is still sharp as a tack. With five surviving children, 17 grand children and 33 great-grand children she still keeps busy sending computer birthday cards!

For Yom Kippur we, once again, attended services at Temple Israel in Omaha. This is a huge (700+ member families) congregation built on a Tri-Faith campus along with a church and a mosque.

Two rabbis, an operatic cantor, 12 voice choir, pianist, cellist and an oboist rounded out the celebrants. The services and melodies were unfamiliar to us but we were certainly glad we attended.

Prior to the closing service, we participated in a session of "sacred texting". We connected our cell phones to the temple SMS server and our texted responses to questions like "How have I failed this year " and " How do I hope to improve next year" streamed on big projection screens and were read by the rabbis and cantor. Without attribution of course.

Two more days driving brought us to Indianapolis.

Love,

Sandy & Carl

Living & Traveling in our Motorhome

Volunteering across America

greenbaum2@gmail.com

www.livingourdream2011.blogspot.com

617-435-8502

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Wind

Hi All,

Our Friday drive to Rawlings, WY was uneventful but when we arrived the wind was 30 mph with gusts to 45.

We considered "turtleing up" where we keep our slide outs in to prevent the wind from damaging the slide awnings.

Once parked we realized the wind was on our nose and posed little risk to our awnings.

Today when we started out we saw signs warning of "Extreme Blowover Risk".

We checked the WYDOT web site and found this!!!