Orion was brilliant in the sky last night. After so many nights recently of cloud-filled skies, this made me smile: Orion is an old friend! When I was 6, and for a few years after, Orion hung in the winter sky outside my window, beside my bed, silent and steadfast. A few times when I was older, in the ages of freedom from parental clocks, I saw him in summer skies, having stayed up well past any proper bed time! Yesterday was the first day of Turkey Soup. I simmered half the turkey carcass... Sign in to see full entry.