ated my blog.We had a lovely visit with Ann and Jim Owens.
They arrived two days after we returned from
Wichita. Jim and Robert went, the next day,
to Tebo's garage. Jim was as excited about
the place as Robert is. They had a grand
time. Ann expressed a desire to do some
walking and enjoying the mountain scene.
Dish and building on Table Mt.
Since then we have gone to dinner at
Arugula with Carl, Martha and Ariel.
It was a fun evening and the food was
very good, but it is an expensive
place!
Jo and I met for coffee and spent
several hours catching up on each others
lives. She and Alf came for dinner later
in the month and that is always fun.
I have spent quite some time in Bennet's
Boulder office calling to encourage folks
to vote in the Primary in August. I also
went for a pep talk to Denver. That was
sort of a fiasco. Bennet was so tired he
could hardly stand up and speaking was
difficult. After the meeting I retrieved
my car from the parking garage across the
street. But, horrors, the machine couldnt
read my ticket. Am I to stay here forever?
After several tries and much smoothing of
the ticket it finally read the ticket and
told me I owed $5.00. I'd been there
somewhat less than 2 hours..but I fed in
a twenty and was rewarded with the gate
lifting and 15 dollar coins raining into
the change cup. I was very happy to
get out of there!
Yesterday's mail brought us a delightful
letter from the IRS...you owe us $777
more. Pay up now. Today I took the
letter and documents back to our
accountant and now she has the great
joy of revisiting our taxes.
The most interesting thing we did this
last month was visit the Deep Space
Exploration Society. Robert gave a
lecture there on the history of the
site and some interesting aspects of
radio astronomy of the past. I enjoyed
meeting and talking with the various
members. They, using their own
funds, have refurbished the huge dishes
that sit on the site on Table Mountain.
This is government-owned land in N.
Boulder. The group has been working on
the site for almost 20 years and they
have been charged $1.00/year for the use of the site, until this year. This year
NIST demanded $3000.00 for the next year. This is quite a hardship for the group since they have no outside funding.Second refurbished dish..not a trivial job!
