APOD: 2010 March 22 - The Nearby Milky Way in Cold Dust

Nature has a way of being beautiful without expecting dust to be artistically interesting. I have to admit I have been on a train derailment in Nortonville and looking up at 2 am saw the Leonid meteor through the ammonia cloud and thought it was so neat I regretted not having my camera capable of taking that kind of photo. I have the laundry going, the towels put up, the dishwasher going, and have been reading the www. Digg.com news as I eat my oatmeal with blueberries as usual this morning. It is a lot of pressure when your doctor is thin. Tomorrow I take a class at Fitness Formula designed to lower blood sugar levels with exercise and I hope to have an evening Tai Chi lesson at Madisonville Community College. I have been reading a Sherlock Holmes novel where Holmes works with a young Teddy Roosevelt who was one of my favorite presidents growing up. This is set just before he became police commissioner of New York City and helped clean up the police force before becoming Sec. of the Navy. It is an interesting concept. I have an entire bookcase dedicated to just Sherlock Holmes books and DVD's and still find some interesting from left field like a series I read last week where the hero of the book was Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars and the author managed to capture the hard life of the impoverished in Victorian England. It was very interesting to see the contrast between the mystery solving and the life style of an era with such hardship and sanitation issues. Child labor was common and almost needed since there was little safety net for orphans. I missed a meeting last month about reading books and hope to do better this month with my schedule. Horse labors sometimes are driven by the weather. I also hope to make the Ky Retirement meeting this week where I do learn a lot of interesting things and get to meet a lot of folks I used to work with in my day. We are still trying to find a home for the two rescued kittens who are becoming cats faster and faster that are in the garage still. I had hoped to reclaim the garage but out of 4 callers, they all backed out or fell by the wayside. It is amazing to me how folks will commit to being here to pick one up at a certain time and place and then never show up, call, or answer their phone. It is a strange world sometimes. APOD: 2010 March 22 - The Nearby Milky Way in Cold Dust