Jedolby

  It's unfortunate that one of the best meteor showers of the year has to occur in the cold month of December! Although I live in Arizona, where the winters are mild, meteor showers are tough because you have to be outside to watch them, and while you're out there, you're just standing there looking up, or sitting in a chair or lying on a cot. The inactivity makes you feel colder than if you were doing something. And if you don't have a chair or cot, it's kind of a pain in the neck to look up for long periods. Nevertheless, my daughter and I stood out there in our back yard for about 5 minutes looking up, and we saw about 10 meteors. For our bright, suburban skies, that's not too shabby. One of the meteors was very bright and drew an "Ohhhhh!" from both of us. After that highlight, we decided it was too cold and too painful on our necks to keep watching, so we went inside. And that 5-minute meteor gazing was a much better experience than, say, watching...