Fwd: Re: [meteorite-list] OT; happy fathers day to all you dads!
Thomas Webb
webbth1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 19 10:07:25 EDT 2005
--- Thomas Webb <webbth1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:06:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Thomas Webb <webbth1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT; happy fathers day
> to all you dads!
> To: MexicoDoug at aol.com
>
> Doug,
> This gets to the heart of what's really important in
> life. Thanks for your post!
> My best,
> Thomas
>
>
> --- MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Tom K. wrote:
> >
> > >Hey List, I just wanted to wish all the dads a
> > happy fathers day!
> > >I heard a funny fathers day thing today;
> >
> > >"All dads want for fathers day is some time
> alone
> > with your mom,
> > >so get the heck out of the house and let daddy
> have
> > the kind of
> > >fun he had with mommy before you came along and
> > ruined everything!"
> >
> > Tom, the way you put it - I know my Dad would want
> > me to be the one left IN
> > THE HOUSE, and that He would take His ballerina to
> > do the things they enjoyed
> > most, while humming the Barcarolle or another
> > favorite under clear skys with
> > his handsome telescope with that eerie purple
> > sheen, perfectly aligned on
> > "star-drive" with time to kill...
> >
> > * * * * * * * * *
>
> > * * *
> > "Doug, get your *ss over here kiddo!!, You're not
> > gonna believe this!!"
> >
> > Nearly thirty-three years ago, and I remember it
> > better than this morning...
> >
> > "A BOLIDE!!! He actually got a BOLIDE! We were
> > just there in the Tetons,
> > and this photographer catches a fantastic fireball
> > in his exposure! What a
> > lucky b*stard!"
> >
> > Dad is possessed, shouting excitedly returning
> from
> > the mailbox, madly
> > waving the latest issue of Sky & Tel like it was
> HIS
> > winning lottery ticket!
> >
> > "Is everything OK Walt?" Mom doesn't seem to be
> too
> > concerned knowing Dad...
> >
> > "Doug, look at this fireball! It'll knock you off
> > your chair!" When will I
> > see a bolide? After all those nights we go into
> the
> > mosquito infested
> > swamps to photograph meteors! And this fellow
> gets
> > it right over the Grand
> > Tetons!"
> >
> > "But Dad, that doesn't look like a fireball -
> Isn't
> > it daytime?", I was a
> > little perplexed since the photo looked like a
> nice
> > day besides the smoking
> > streak which destroyed the tranquility of the
> scene.
> >
> > "Doug, this isn't a regular fireball like some of
> > the small ones we've
> > seen." (I still hadn't ever seen what I considered
> a
> > fireball, which already had a
> > mystic significance around the household, but I
> was
> > ashamed to admit that,
> > and had seen many meteors during our trips to the
> > dark).
> >
> > "Yeah, Dad it doesn't look like any of the
> fireballs
> > I ever saw..."
> >
> > "Doug, this is what's called a bolide. Bolides
> are
> > fireballs that can be so
> > big that they're sometimes brighter than a full
> > Moon, and you can see them
> > when the Sun is shining. They leave trains of
> smoke
> > and if you are lucky
> > you'll see them exploding as they rumble by."
> >
> > "A Bowloid? what?..."
> >
> > "Bolide Doug, get it straight - I'd give my right
> > arm to photograph just one
> > bolide in my life. Doug, you haven't lived until
> > you see a BOLIDE. We'll
> > keep watching - we'll see one, don't worry! Oh,
> if
> > I could only have one of
> > these bolides rip through the sky with my
> > camera..."
> >
> > "B-o-l-i-d-e..."
> >
> > Dad continued to devour his S&T and contageously
> was
> > heard mumbling the word
> > "bolide" all evening. I was a little confused
> > because I knew I was just a
> > kid, but I thought I had been living long enough.
> > Still, I had never seen a
> > BOLIDE, which now took the principal seat in the
> Mt.
> > Olympus in my mind's eye.
> > I was very excited because I now thought we would
> > see a bolide sometime
> > soon...even though I had yet to completely digest
> > the fact that a meteor which I
> > always associated with dark nights, could be seen
> > blowing-up enroute during
> > the day.
> >
> > Shortly thereafter, we left yet another time for a
> > trip to the dark
> > swampland 70 odd-miles away. I did my job
> carrying
> > one tripod for Dad's equipment,
> > and then we arrived at a place he fancied, and Dad
> > began his meticulous setup
> > of the ungainly big camera mounted on his eerily
> > glistening purple telescope,
> > which had to be the world's best as far as I could
>
> > imagine. I was curious
> > as much as impressed that when Dad magically
> > manipulated his equipment, this
> > would cancel out the star trails that all the
> other
> > cameras he also set up
> > would record. I faithfully did the rest of my
> > chores - mainly to keep out of
> > the way and to be handy with the mosquito
> > repellent, and watch...and watch....
> > keeping a vigilent eye for heavenly visitors.
> > Another night and 15-20 faint
> > streaks later the excitment was even greater.
> But
> > no BOLIDES yet...
> >
> > It's wonderful that Dad left a place of our very
> own
> > to meet whenever we
> > want, in the skies. And you can count on me Dad,
> > I'll be there with you. Maybe
> > tomorrow, we'll finally get to live this time,
> maybe
> > we'll see a BOLIDE...
> >
> > I'd give everything I ever had to spend another
> > sulty-warm night there with
> > you and the mosquitos, Dad, or for just another
> > moment together...
> >
> > Love, Doug
> >
> >
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