Excellent company, good food, and stimulating conversation; hard to go wrong with that! /R ________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] August L&O We had a terrific Liver & Onions get together today, thanks to all who attended! Ray did in fact manage to "drag his butt out of bed" and joined myself, Kelly, Joe and Cory, Rodger, Larry, Rich, and Charlie. Lots of good conversation ranging from vintage aircraft to old star party stories, telescope making, the MSL lander, stamp-collecting, amusement park rides with a high-gee experience, bragging about our kids- and more. Larry brought me a terrific can cozy from Hawaii that picutred several "cans" on it's exterior. ;-) Many thanks, Larry! Rich brought a vintage 8" Dynascope given to him by an old friend, that only Charlie and I stayed long enough to admire in the back of his car. Dan, Larry has your stuff. If the binos are covered with fingerprints before you get them, it's not my fault, lol. It was great to coincidentally run into my friends Glen Warchol and Mary Malouf, who were just finishing their lunch in the booth adjacent to the L&O table! For those who don't know, Glen had his crutch parallelogram bino/spotter scope mount featured in one of Phil Harrington's books some years ago. Hopefully the two of them can join us again. The fact that Mary was dining at the Left Fork I took as a good sign. She has been a food and wine columnist at several major American newspapers and magazines. Joe and Glen worked together for years at the Deseret News; his relationship with Glen predates mine by many years. We are going to shoot for another one in October, before it gets cold. Stay tuned for details. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".