Happy Vernal Equinox! As of 12:30 am EST today, we bid old man winter goodbye and welcomed spring into the year of our Lord 2016! How fitting that 1 to 3 inches of snow is forecast for my part of NJ! I think this calls for a toast!!!
Bob23
Time to burn your sox.
Cheers, Gents..................
Good ol' Vernal!
We have been having spring just long enough for the pollen to start my eyes watering and itching. I still like it better than winter.
WOW!
i didn't realize it was spring already!
now that you mention it, the back yard has been full of song birds and, unfortunately, squirrels.
bob,
joanie and i will be a mere 6 hour drive from stonehenge come the summer solstice. i'll have to start preparing our druid outfits.
c.c.
Yes, I heard you were going to cross the pond. I was there many moons ago, 30 maybe. Before the fence around it. Do visit it and give the Druids my best.
Bob23
I also visited Stonehenge more than 30 years ago, before there was a fence. I took a picture with my trusty Canon FTb camera and then turned around and took a picture of the sheep in the adjacent field. For the first, and only, time in its dependable lifetime, the camera failed to advance the film, resulting in an eerie, double exposure picture of sheep floating above stonehenge. I didn't know it had happened until the pictures came back from the processor. I blame it on the strong supernatural forces in the area...
Nc,
If you were there 30 years ago, and bob was there 30 years ago, perhaps the "strong super natural forces" was bob?
C.C.
Hmmm... distinct possibility.
NC:
Sounds like a great photo. Do you still have it? Carl: My super natural forces ain't very strong these days. Kinda like wimpy natural forces! Hahahaha!!!!!
I still have the photos. I'll photograph it and post it here, now that I've figured out the process.
Wow that would be great. Thanks...
Druid23
Now Druid23, aka Bob23, you didn't throw any virgins into the bog did ya? Know that is kinda popular with the Druid set!
Still looking forward to that Guiness!
Well aside from the ole virgins in the bog kinda thing, we do celebrate and use the sun's position in our home. First of all it is a passive solar home with a sundial to the south that we use to keep track of the time while out working in the south gardens. I have never worn a watch in my lifetime. On a seasonal level both the Vernal and Autumnal equinox's are marked by the peak of a shadow created by a columnar cedar tree as the sun sets behind our mountains. That shadow falls through the center of a west door centered on a bank of windows that faces the west. The shadow then continues to reach into the home through two other aligned openings until it hits a large mirror about 60 feet into the house. That same mirror (ala Egyptian's) sends the sun's rays back through the house just before and after same said equinox events. There are other markers for the two solstice positions.
Must be all that Irish ancestry! Now since we have a chart plotter I have promised myself to balance that technology with learning how to use a sextant. That'll be another story!
Your house sounds interesting. I've privately emailed all the other members and we'll be there for lunch today!!! Hope you have enough Guinness!!!!
Stonehenge was interesting for me in that no one really knows who built it although we do know it was never finished. And the sheer age of the thing is impressive.
Sounds like a Spring Guinness Celebration may be in order. Let's see" CBSGC.
Bob23
Well since it's well past lunch guess everyone got lost. Not sure how since this is the center of the known universe, but regardless gunna start o' beer thirty with a Dark Star dry Irish stout. I have may have the last keg of it, as it has had it's wake and is done for at the brewery. Sorry no Guiness, but know where close by we can get some on tap.
Hmm...sounding like a pre-Tangier, Guiness, rendezvous may be in order.
I'm up for another rendezvous and I promise not to drink the last of anything! Those dark stouts are to be savored anyway, not chugged down like some high schooler drinking his fill of Coors Light. Note to you light beer drinkers: Don't go gettin' yer BVd's up in a knot! You'll learn eventually!!! Hahahahaha!!!
Bob hiccup! 23
Only a couple of hours away ! I'm There
Ok...seems the ball is rolling! Where and when? I'm ready for another road trip in the trusty old Porsche.
The eerie stonehenge picture will have to wait until I get back to the inland home tomorrow. This seems to be a beer thirsty crew. I should probably mention that I'm a home brewer. I've been perfecting my lagering technique lately with a dark lager as my most recent effort.
Quote from: Bob23 on April 02, 2016, 08:58:04 PM
Ok...seems the ball is rolling! Where and when? I'm ready for another road trip in the trusty old Porsche.
Well that depends upon the desired beer digs! If we wanna make it a non boat kind of gathering then will be glad to host a brewery tour of the 8 breweries within a half hour of our farm and brewery. Well maybe some of them! Goggle Mountain Culture Kombucha for our little brewery. We do make beer sometimes but that is not what we sell.
If a return to the bay then would highly recommend meeting up down near PeterG's home and our marina which is just across from Merrior which is the Rappahannock Oyster folks restaurant with an incredible draft selection right on the water. Open till 9 on weekends.
Quote from: No Mas on April 02, 2016, 06:17:45 AM
Now since we have a chart plotter I have promised myself to balance that technology with learning how to use a sextant. That'll be another story!
Don't forget, my offer still stands for free Celestial Navigation instruction for all CPYOA correspondents.
And don't forget my lessons, somewhere on this website! Look for "Celnav" posts in the "sailing articles" section. Give me a buzz if there's anything I can do to get you on your way.
Hey HenryC, thanx so much will more than likely take you up on this!
No Mas
Quote from: HenryC on April 03, 2016, 07:17:54 PM
Don't forget, my offer still stands for free Celestial Navigation instruction for all CPYOA correspondents.
And don't forget my lessons, somewhere on this website! Look for "Celnav" posts in the "sailing articles" section. Give me a buzz if there's anything I can do to get you on your way.
I've never quoted myself before! Anyway would love to have an excuse to try to get a reunion of the CBMWG folks, the question before we turn this over to an appropriate thread is are we looking to be on the water or up here in the center of the known universe. Maybe we should just have to do both. :) What do you guys think? Lemeno and will get a thread going. Will make sure Heave knows too, though my guess is he may already know something is afoot.
Quote from: No Mas on April 02, 2016, 10:11:32 PM
Well that depends upon the desired beer digs! If we wanna make it a non boat kind of gathering then will be glad to host a brewery tour of the 8 breweries within a half hour of our farm and brewery. Well maybe some of them! Goggle Mountain Culture Kombucha for our little brewery. We do make beer sometimes but that is not what we sell.
If a return to the bay then would highly recommend meeting up down near PeterG's home and our marina which is just across from Merrior which is the Rappahannock Oyster folks restaurant with an incredible draft selection right on the water. Open till 9 on weekends.
So lets try that again with the appropriate quote!
My lighthouse is open. Anytime. For anyone who is here or passing through. Avail yourselves of our hostility.
Back to Vernal Equinox. Here is the promised accidental eerie Stonehenge photo. 1987.
Note the giant, cloudlike sheep floating over the heads of the tiny looking tourists.
(http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p558/mapplegate27105/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-04/6f763953-707a-4bef-a416-68e889d6c4b7_zpscpyj08cm.jpg~original)
TG:
Love to!
NC:
What a great photo!!!!
NM:
I'll try to be wherever the Guinness flows!
B23
I don't see any photo?
Quote from: NCboater on April 03, 2016, 08:43:31 PM
Note the giant, cloudlike sheep floating over the heads of the tiny looking tourists.
They must be the spirits of ancient Dr
eweids.