To commemorate being completely skunked by overcast skies during Sunday’s lunar eclipse, I give you this Sunday from last year. I don’t think there’s been a regularly scheduled celestial event in years that hasn’t been obscured by clouds where I live. It’s been a frustrating run. I plan to be in the path of the total eclipse of the sun as it traverses the central United States in 2017. At least I know that if it’s cloudy that day, it will still get creepy dark!
And, of course, pisces…
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270 responses to “And, of course, pisces…”
How did I miss this last year? It’s super! š
We watched the lunar eclipse through light clouds. The best total lunar eclipse I’ve seen was in August 2008. It was very early morning and was crystal clear. The “red” moon was a giant orange ball hanging on the horizon. The thing that was most impressive to me was that the reduced glare and lighting caused it to actually look like a shaded sphere rather than a bright circle of light as the normal full moon.
And today’s is a hoot!!!
Even up here on the Mountain it was too cloudy to see anything, so I just went to bed. And yes, I agree with Arlo about constellations.
Wow! I don’t remember this one either.
Assigning names to the “pictures in the sky” constellations was done by people who had no television, no Netflix, no InterWebNet, or very little other entertainment to distract them, so…
BTW, NASA says there is liquid water on Mars. Great! A source of oxygen to breathe when we get there and hydrogen to fuel the fusion rocket motors for the return trip. What’s that you say? There aren’t any fusion rocket motors yet? They should work on that.
I, too, was disappointed by clouds obscuring the Super Moon lunar eclipse. I wasn’t too surprised, though, because Gulf Coast air is not conducive to viewing stellar events. We lived in the New Orleans area before moving here, north of Houston. Long ago, we drove our kids out to Waveland, MS to view the comet (the one that was a flop) across the waters without the competition of city lights. It was the wee hours of the morning. It took over an hour to drive there. The dark vacant beach was kinda spooky. The sky was dark enough to view a lot of stars, which was an upgrade from our back yard experience, but the comet was small and not brilliant. JR (husband) took a photo which, when enlarged, looked better than what we could see by eye or with binoculars. Sadly, the kids were mega not impressed, but then we all went out to breakfast together, which was fun.
My sister in California had a great view and took some pictures and shared them on Facebook. Other friends shared professional looking photos of the eclipse which were nice to view. I had memories of other lunar eclipses I had witnessed, and the clouds thinned enough late yesterday that I got to see the Super Moon at so close to full that my senior eyes couldn’t tell the difference. So I am content.
I swear that when I looked down Highway 69 to the risen Super Moon it looked like witches or the wraiths from Harry Potter were racing across it. Clouds, you say?
Us primitive people have to write our own stories.
Off to get the newest reiteration of Samsung turned on properly, I am excommunicated already and about to leave for another adventure. New hires seem to be doing well. Maybe house will be cleaner when I return.
Heading for the Atlantic seaboard and the land of crab omelets and cakes. Love, anon
Jackie, in answer to your question of the other day, better bypass me on this trip. New codes start Thursday and I’ve got a feeling I’m not going to be in a company mood for some time to come. Have fun.
“ICD-10*…because ICD-9 just wasn’t complicated enough.”
*W56.22XA, “Struck by orca, initial encounter.”
W56.22XD, “Struck by orca, subsequent encounter.”
W56.22XS, “Struck by orca, sequela.”
I will do my best to avoid any physician encounter for at least the next 60 days.
We too were soaked in for the eclipse. Our favorite star formation, The Southern Cross. Looking up at night from the deck and seeing The Cross is awesome.
Debbe š Great name for a rock band…Dead Hen Bin? Naw, I don’t think so.
Several months ago, I found a free, customizable calendar template online, and each month I create and print one for my Mom for the coming month, to help her remember her appointments and other important dates. Last night, when I tried to make her an October calendar, the site informed me that since they derive their revenue from ads, I would have to disable the AdBlocker program they detected I was using and accept (pop-up) ads in order to use their template. Again… naw, I don’t think so.
I found another free calendar template and used it instead. And liked it better, too. Free enterprise, baby! It works both ways.
Ghost, are those orcas you refer to the ones that inhabit the oceans? As in an orca-stration?
Sand, I didn’t know you sailed? Decks of ships? Yes, the Southern Cross is my favorite too.
Plan to have a tattoo done when I get through with the incredible weight loss and subsequent skin tucks so it doesn’t go off course with shifts in the substrata. Compass rose pointing to True North and Southern Cross.
Love, Jackie
I hope to head down that way for the total eclipse. You got extra room?
Jackie, so when someone goes to Sea World and watches Shamu go through his act, are they watching an orca-stration?
And are those ICD-10 orca codes used to indicate one is having problems with one’s Willy?
Thought for the Day: “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.ā ? W.B. Yeats
The punctuation came out strangely there.
Thought for the Day: āThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.ā
– W.B. Yeats
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Jackie, ships with decks and sails.
Oh my goodness! Tall ships? I am going to take the learn to sail a tall ship next summer if the Lord allows me that long. I fell in love with them at about age 12 or earlier, always wanted to sail and sail on one. The Wooden Boat School has a course, The Mary Day, which has no motor and which I have sailed on as a passenger. I hope they let me do more than work the galley!
I got accepted to participate in a penguin migration scientific expedition from Argentina to Antarctica collecting penguin poop and I will sail around Cape Horn but a 20 meter sailboat doesn’t qualify as a ship and is rather small actually. I will probably get assigned to the galley permanently on that one peeling potatoes and cooking. For three weeks.
Love, Jackie
Do you have to wear a Tuxedo to collect that stuff…Weird thought of the day.
You do have to wear clothes to keep from freezing and muck boots, plus have the poles to keep from falling on the ice. Muck boots, how deep is the poop? Is it like the poop pit in the chicken farm? Love, Jackie
So Sandcastler, exactly who ARE you really?