Lafayette ='s Great Weekends

On Sunday, we invited my SIL's mother and a girl friend over for a cookout at our complex. His 2 children wanted to go swimming and cookout. We put our coolers at one of the 6 cabana's at the complex (Each cabana has a ceiling fan, lights, grill and a table for 8.) and hit the pool. After a couple of hours we went to the cabana and had a cookout (burgers, frankfurters,grilled corn, beans and chips). After lunch we waited the 30 minutes and then returned to the pool to finish off the day. The weather was perfect, spotty light clouds, nice breeze from the gulf, and about 88 degrees. Later we walked over to the lake and watched some neighbors fish. Lafayette has great weather, my complex has a great pool, cabanas and fishing lake so it made for a great way to enjoy Sunday with family.

The Space Station visits Louisiana

On Friday, the Space Station was visible over the skys of Louisiana. At 826 pm it came from the NW heading SE. The sun rays reflecting off of the solar panels made it really visible. It was traveling at a high rate of speed but was visible for about 4 minutes before it disappeared. Sunday night the Space Station again was visible in the louisiana sky, for about 5-6 minutes it traveled NW to SE, the News stated it might flash as the rays reflected off of the solar panels but we saw a bright glow, the panels were visible to the naked eye and showed as wings of the cylinder. We used a minocular and got a better than average view, but were afraid we could not track a fast moving object with our telescope. The news stated there were 13 people aboard as it circles our planet. Cloudless nights, great temps, and a spectacular view made both evenings memorable.