Looking for the comet, getting ready for The Gulf Coat show, and fishing

Its very hard to take a picture of the nighttime sly without Elon Musk’s satellites photo bombing the shot. Still, I thought I would try to take another one of the “Green Comet and so Renita and I drove over to our favorite dark site. It was clear night and I thought I had everything ready but…. One of the tripod legs had separated from the tripod and I couldn’t find it, grr. I still, foolishly I might add, attempted to use the car for a twenty second expose. Of course, the stars and planets were a series of squiggly lines. I next placed the camera on top of the car after pointing it in the general direction of Taurus the bull, then snapping the image and letting the camera and car work together. It kind of worked and as you can see I got an ok image of Taurus.

Now to locate the comet we had to look between the Planet Mars and Aldebaran, which is the bright star representing the eye of the bull, (the face of the bull makes the letter v with the horns toward the northeast). Did I get the comet, maybe but its so faint that I must try another trip with the repaired tripod?

As tomorrow is Valentine’s Day our park is hosting a prime rib dinner and Renita and I are taking pictures of everyone who attends. The party won’t last that long so we plan on driving to our deserted spot, setting up the camera and taking pictures, (the comet is located at seven oclock from Mars and is very faint. This is a raw fromat image). Sounds romantic! For the past week we both have been making jewelry for our upcoming March 4th and Fifth show. It’s the Sixtieth Gem and Mineral show of the Gulf Coast Gem and Mineral Society. That’s the group we have belonged to for the past twelve years.

It has been cold and very windy and so fishing has suffered. Roy and I have gone out in his pram, and we have caught fish. Flounder, redfish, black drum, and sheepshead. We also had a pod of three dolphin visit us. The fish we caught were undersized and but in two days we caught and kept three sheepshead and one twenty two inch black drum. The sheepshead were nice size, with largest being nineteen inches long and after filleting them we have enough for another meal.

Two fronts are passing through this week and small craft warnings have been posted for today so today I decided to take a break and spend the day smoking a brisket!

I had hoped to have the brisket for dinner but I accidently covered the temperature sensor and the grill got too hot. Luckily, I caught it before the grill was destroyed and after cooling and cleaning out the mess, the smell of smoked brisket is finally wafting into the fifth wheel. It takes about nine to ten hours to reach the perfect temperature so I have plenty of time to write this blog. Clear skies,