Small World

December 23, 2020

When we checked in for golf on Monday the starter said, "I know a Eugene Fales". Turns out he was a friend of Connie's and was at Eugene's wedding. Had a couple follow us home the other night because they saw my "Erie Boy" license plate. Turns out she was from Erie and went to Strong Vincent, they just bought in the neighborhood and we had a long talk. Will add them to the Erie Club contact list so they can come to the meetings once they resume. Yesterday at the mail stop a man commented on my license plate. Turns out he is the son of the Renewal Parts manager I worked with at Erie GE. The Jupiter-Saturn get together was a big event here in the Villages. On our way back from golf there were hundreds of people congregating at open spots for a better view. There wasn't a parking spot left at our mail station which has open ground to the west. I have been watching the planets getting closer for the last few nights and now I am watching then getting farther apart. It was cloudy early that night but they cleared before the planets set in the west at about 8:30. I got my telescope out and was able to see a number of Jupiter's moons as well as Saturn's rings from our driveway. All in the same view as they were that close together. Have been tracking our mailed Christmas packages. All were late but made it except Mike's which is now 7 days late and hung up in the Philadelphia post office snafu created by the moron appointed by the moron to slow down the mail in order to interfere with mail in voting.