Bird Watching + Star Gazing = Empty Nesters

Forever, Jeff has wanted a telescope.  So when a friend of ours offered to give him this refurbished telescope, he was over the moon, ha, ha.  Just so no one gets any weired ideas, this window does not face any houses, but into a field across the road from us,  so there is no peeping going on here.  Our kids are so making fun of us saying that we started out with just a bird feeder and watching the birds that gathered in the yard and now we are looking at the stars.  This is really an empty nester kind of thing.  Next thing they know, we will be booking our Fall foliage tour.  But looking at the stars is awesome.  Although we do live on the edge of town, there still is too much light pollution to see very much from our house.  But the other morning we were able to get a great look at the moon.  Soon we are going to pack up our new telescope and take it out to the country and do some real star gazing.  Maybe a little wine and cheese, sounds like a date to me, not an empty nester thing:o)

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[Sue]

Another fun thing to do is take it out when the grands are around. I think you are a bit young for that but it will happen soon enough. The grands love looking through the telescope. I had to laugh at your comments about bird watching and being empty nesters. I never thought about it but we got our hummingbird feeder and our telescope after the kids moved out.