Comments on: days are longer, days are longer

By: margaret

margaret — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:29:27 +0000

Welcome, Peggy, and don't WE have sharp eyes, missy?! Yes, the next entry in my notebook marks the Mercury launch. I have never shown that page to anyone except my friend Andre Jordan, who has a thing for astronauts. I sent Andre a jpg months back, when I found the notebook. It's a really previous possession now, though for all these years (like 20 or 30) I didn't even know I had it. See you soon again, I hope.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:56:19 +0000

“Days are longer” is fun prose for a gardening blog. Perhaps more interesting, however, is the May 5, 1961 prose you can read behind your May 4 journal entry: “We saw the man go up in space.” Nasa’s web site confirms your journal entry(http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_171.html) with a suborbital flight of Mercury Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. as the first American in space.

By: margaret

margaret — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:48:11 +0000

Welcome, Claudia. Zone 10? Did you say Zone 10? I’ll be right over…send me the MapQuest coordinates. It just refuses to really be spring here (let alone Zone 10), and I am desperate. Happy to have you as a voyeur; please come back soon.