I have always been interested in astronomy as long as I can remember. As a kid, I used to cut pictures of “space” out of magazines and plaster them up on our bedroom wall. I guess that’s the main reason I’ve always been accused of being “spaced out” and having my “head in the clouds”! I’m sure when I was a kid a lot of people wanted to send me into space. “Mr. Pringle”, whom I referred to in an earlier story, wanted to “throw us into space” if we were caught out of bed after bedtime. Read if for yourself here. It’s really odd and amusing how a “kid’s perspective” works. When we were very young and saw a high-flying jet leaving a vapor trail, we used to think that a plane was flying so high that it “scratched the sky”! I even figured it was the top of the tail that did it! I guess we never thought about why the “sky scratch” fixed itself so fast, or what kind of material the plane tails were made of that withstood all that friction on the “sky top”. Hmmmm, with all the eviron”mental” whackos around these days, maybe we were on to something??? I don’t want to give them any more wacky ideas!!! One thing that Tim and I remember very vividly is that when we were kids THE STARS WERE ALL DIFFERENT COLORS. It was like looking at Christmas tree lights! Now you readers out there, do you remember the stars looking like Christmas tree lights when you were kids, or is it just us???? I have 2 theories as to why the stars used to be that vividly colored and do not appear so these days, and that our memories are accurate. The first theory is that these days there is too much light pollution! Even though we live out in “God’s Country” away from other houses, and streetlights, etc., there is still more light pollution than there used to be. When we were kids, the only light was in the distant eastern sky. The red glow was from the Bessemer Converter at the Lorain Steel Mill our father always told us. Thanks to the liberals and their labor unions we can’t see the Bessemer Converter glow these days since Japan is too far east!  The other theory is that when we were kids, our eyesight was much more acute. If anyone remembers the colorful stars please let me know since 2 things depend on it. If you can still see Christmas tree colors, then I need to get my cataracts surgery sooner or Doc. Holliday needs to increase my meds (again). If you remember but can’t see the colors anymore, then you can once and for all put to rest that our memories are indeed correct!  However, if you don’t remember the stars ever having bright colors, don’t tell me since I will wonder about my current mental state! (Of course what would that matter, since everyone else wonders anyway!)