Joan, great report!!! Sounds like you had a good time in spite of the weatherman and mother nature. By the way, I know ALL the words to the Barney song and the Teapot song but since you are out of the large candy bars it doesn't sound like there is much in it for me. I really did luck out with the sucker holes last night. I had one young Vampire who was unable to see the moon but his mom brought him back later (at his insistence) and he got the clearest and brightest view. I did update the video with the correct link but of course now it is a different URL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NOCLjAad8 It was a very fun night and I sure do thank all of you who encouraged me to get out on the sidewalk for Halloween 2011.
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:55:01 -0400 From: jcarman6@q.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Halloween Treat
Here's my Halloween report:
Left home around 5:40 headed for Glendale. On the way I screamed in my car. I screamed at the weatherman and I screamed at mother nature. The weatherman predicted the storm would arrive at midnight - clear skies for Halloween and like the sucker/idiot I am, I believed him. Arrived in the Glendale area around 6:00 with C-8 in trunk and my red flowing long-sleeved robe with hood and black cloth face over my shoulder. Not even the moon was visible, so the telescope didn't get set up.
The talking pumpkin was silent (they couldn't find the two-way radio equipment). "Freddie Kruger" is now back east in medical school. (Damn, but he was a good Freddie, got the kids singing all the time). I was recruited? enlisted? hood-winked? shanghaied? into manning the giant pumpkin and passing out the candy.
The kids started arriving around 6:30. Apparently, no one knows the Barney song - guess he is passe. Many didn't know the teapot song. But we had a winner with Twinkle Twinkle. (If I hear another person singing that song they might get strangled.) That is as as close as I came to seeing a heavenly body last night. There were a few rousing choruses of Happy Birthday and even a Wish You a Merry Christmas.
By 7:55 the 10 boxes of 30 each normal candy bars were gone. Fortunately there were large bags of snack bars still around - we made do with those. At times, there was a line up of kids waiting to pass my table. I was doing them 10 at a time. (Wish that had been at a telescope - It had been so in the past). All were required to go through the back yard which was done in a zombie motif this year. The bride and groom zombies were a big hit, with a number of pictures with wee ones standing in front. And there were about 7 high school aged zombies moving around and (hehehe) they were allowed to touch. You could tell, when you heard the screams.
Around 8:15 there was a break in the flow and I checked the sky. Sucker holes everwhere. No moon and yet, finally, feebly blazing over the tree tops was Jupiter. That was about the time the crowd petered out. We shut down at 9:00.
And this morning????? ITS SNOWING
Thanks Steve for your video. Loved the turning pages and yes, noticed it was 2012, but didn't care. Wished it were mine. I got mostly football players and ghouls, there was a fairy princess or two, but mostly everyone was taller than me.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 6:28:42 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Halloween Treat
We only had about six groups of kids, almost all young 'uns with one or both parents in-tow. The last group came at about 8:30, so I got to bed on-time. We WAY overbought on candy, that's for sure!
I periodically snuck out back with the 4.25" but never had enough sucker holes to see anything at all, and I'm only a couple of miles east of Steve.
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