Atlanta, Georgia December 1972.
 
I was about to turn 11 and my brother Dennis 10.

We were on holiday vacation with our parents visiting with our sister Jackie's family. As with most things that are tucked away in this head I can't remember things in great detail. Only bits and peaces, here and there, often times needing a jolt to stir something that had long since been abandoned. So as in previous BLOserGs ( as I'm sure with future ones also ) I post a out clause here stating that this isn't the way things happened but only as I remember them.
 
I recall a visit with David (Jackie's husband), Scott & Craig (their sons), my brother Dennis and our parents to Stone mountain Georgia. I remember Scott & Craig's portable record player. Listening to Donny Osmond "Go away little girl" over and over and ov....and sad to say that at the time he was cool and I didn't mind listening to it over and over and ov... THIS MESSAGE WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 10 SECONDS and I will never admit to this fact EVER AGAIN. This was before I discovered The Beatles ( 6 years after they broke up) by playing disc 2 of The Beatles (white album) that my sister Naomi had left behind when she was married. Then there was the day we went to a :"drive-thru car wash", you actually stayed inside the car and drove through the wash. Now that was hi-end 1970's technology. Two former Presidents passed away within a week(?) of each other, was it Truman & Johnson? 

I can't connect the dots in large portions of my life, I've never been able to. But the one instance that sticks out more than any other during this trip was when Dennis & I were behind Jackie & Davids ( was it a backyard?, parking area?) apartment (?). I don't know what we were doing but I know it was after the sun had set and for some reason we looked up at the sky. It is a little known fact that Dennis & I discovered Orion's Belt that night. Three stars almost perfectly aligned, we were sure that no one in the history of mankind had ever noticed this spectacle. I'm sure that the curiosity of star gazing came from our many summer nights of camping out in backyards in Streetsboro, Ohio. Also we all wanted to be astronauts.
 
One thing that might have made this "discovery" indented somewhere inside, perhaps we had seen Orion's belt in Ohio and thought it so neat that we could see it all the way in Georgia. I might quickly dispense with this theory since I don't think we were amazed at seeing the sun and moon in both states also. In the end there isn't a fall/winter that goes by that I don't think about the night Dennis and I were the greatest astronomers ever. Galileo eat your heart out. Jackie & David, thanks for your sky.