dark skies here I come
- From: "Phil" <pjsr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:20:31 GMT
Had allot of luck last week end.
Wife is a real city girl (she grew up in Paris France), I'm a country boy,
she always said she will not live in the country. Having to live in cities I
put up with (like most of us) light polluted skies and driving out to dark
sites. Did live in Darwin a small city for a while, driving to dark skies
was not too bad there 20 minutes drive tops, but here it takes many hours.
So nearly all of my observing is under badly light polluted skies.
We just had a small extra long weekend holiday, stayed on my sisters hobby
farm, spent a few days of country life, air, food and a slower pace, driving
around a town that only takes 5 minutes to cross, even from my sisters farm
10-15 minutes to the centre of town. Boy the night skies are great at my
sisters place, I spent the nights at my sisters thinking "if only". We
have been planning to move to the edge of the city and building our dream
home, and where very close to doing it, a slight improvement on light
polluted skies and driving time out to a dark site cut in half, kind off a
win-win outcome by my wife's reasoning.
She's was having her morning coffee at my sisters looking out across the
fields watching the cows in the fields and our kids playing in the fields,
she turned around to me and said if I could get a decent job in the near by
town I could live on a small hobby farm like this. I had given up trying
too talk her into moving to the country years ago, This was the first
admission she might consider moving to the country and I would be under dark
skies again. Okay I thought to myself there is hope play this right, play
it cool, just nod in agreement at this point in time, start slowly working
on her in a few months time and maybe if its more than she lost in the
moment and in a few years we will be country bound. So cooling with out
flinching I replied that would be nice dear and went back to the moment.
Well I though to myself its fools hope but its hope.
But it got better, she went shopping later that day, she walked into a
chemist, jokingly she asked one of the pharmacist while being served (who
happened to own the pharmacy and wants to retire) behind the counter do they
need a pharmacist, yes was the reply, we are just thinking about advertising
a full time position to take over from me. A Job interview soon developed,
she walked out 2 hours later just like that, with a very good job package
with a very big payrise over her current job with less hours worked, less
stress and at least 8-10 less driving hours per week to and from work, which
has made her very very happy.
My brother has always been trying to get me to come and work for him in the
same town for a long time so I have a job anytime I want there,
So I find myself a few days later now back from holiday with 1 month to
move. Heading down there again this weekend to look at some rental houses
so we have somewhere to live until we sell our current home, then buy a few
acres and with a family provided labour force, build a house with an
observory off course.
So in a few weeks my new 17.5 inch newt will see first light and I will be a
week or two away from living under dark skies. When it happens it happens
and happens fast, this was one time I did not mind saying "yes dear" when we
meet up later that day and just going with the flow.
Now back to packing for the move and dark skies from my backyard, here I
come :-)
Phil
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