Harry Potter Fans With No Life

Wound up with about 10 inches of snow Thursday. Oh joy. Don't know when my plow guy came by; must have been while I was still sleeping. Friday morning, had to clean off my car and shovel part of my driveway to get to work. ugh! Sore, sore, sore! Been raining, snow showers, and all around gloomy as hell. Supposed to clear up later today, then beautiful Monday through part of Wednesday! Yea! Temps supposed to be near 60 tomorrow, 50s Tuesday and Wednesday. Hoping to see the eclipse tomorrow as our weather is supposed to be gorgeous and mostly clear. Don't have the glasses but have an old fashioned method for viewing.

You can poke a pinhole through a sheet of paper or a hunk of cardboard, turn your back to the sun and focus the pinhole projection on the ground or on another piece of paper/cardboard. It works really well. I think I actually like the fishscale design in the partial eclipse area more than a real total eclipse, and it will show up on the ground under trees without the pinhole focusing.

Our library has extra of the eclipse glasses, maybe yours does, too?

That's what I did - two little pieces of paper, one with pin hole. Learned that in school a long time ago; the lady I work with didn't know you could do that. My supervisor went out and bought a pair of eclipse glasses. So me, my supervisor, and the lady I work with are out in the parking lot, passing around the glasses and looking at my papers. It was quite amazing! Didn't get totally dark; was more like dusk just before sunset. And the temperature definitely got cooler, more than I thought it would. Then the lights on the building went on! lol! Started to get light again - back to work we went.

One April when I still lived at my mom & dad's I laid out in the front yard for a lunar eclipse. It was perfect timing, started close to midnight, and there wasn't much light pollution so was easy to see clearly. You can look directly at them, its all reflected light, but they don't do that diamond ring bright spot. The moon turned a very deep claret red then got smudgy looking, for a lot longer than the solar ones last for. I mostly remember it being really gorgeous, that it emphasized how insignificant we humans are in the scheme of things, and that it was too cold to lay on the ground comfortably for most of it.

Celestial stuff is really cool to watch.

We get lunar eclipses here, too, though I haven't seen one in a long time. We must be about due for one. My co-worker wasn't sure how to tell the eclipses apart so I explained it to her. Told her you don't need glasses to watch a lunar eclipse as they happen at night when the earth passes between the moon and the sun. Just get to enjoy the show!

Temps were kind of March-like this past week. Yes, we had to deal with a damned wind chill. oy! Supposed to be warmer this week with a few rain showers but nothing major. I can live with that. Water the lawn and spot the crap out of my windshield! lol! At least it'll help clean off the bug smears. lol

W-e-l-l-l-l... supposed to be really bright Northern Lights tonight, but we are completely overcast...
* sigh *

Didn't get to see the northern lights here, either. Same issue...clouds, clouds, clouds in my neck of the woods. Total bummer. Muggle Son tried driving north of here, where sky was supposed to be clear but not much luck there, either. Somewhat cloudy - clear in some spots, clouds in others. Not dark enough to really see anything. He was bummed about that.

Supposed to be quite warm this week, 80s Thursday, and, you guessed it, more rain. At least it's not supposed to be torrential. Just normal showers we get this time of year. At least it's been warm enough to open windows! YEA!!!!

I was fog-sitting last week down in Denver. They have flowers and leaves, plus lush green grass.

We are still getting down to freezing at night. The leaves/buds on my lilacs are only about an inch long and hardly unfurled.

We are also getting rain fairly frequently. You could hear it on the roof of the house from last week, which was pretty relaxing. I hadn't heard rain on a roof in years.

My landlord's agent is being a jerk to me still/again. I am getting serious about finding somewhere where I can enjoy the space I pay for. * grrr * The problem is that there is such a shortage that the only things I've seen that are even vaguely close to affordable for me are subsidized senior high rises in the big city. I would not do well stacked up into the sky, surrounded by pavement and concrete. (If there was a cabin way back in the woods that no one else wanted, I'd do fine, but modern/city/crowded aren't something I could do for more than a day.) But I have to do something before that jerk pulls this place out from under me. * tedious sigh *

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Finally getting sunshine and decent temps. Still a bit chilly at night but warms up nicely during the day. No rain for us until Thursday (and that's a telework day for me). I can handle that.

Question...have you tried looking for a cabin in the woods? I hear ya on city life...been there, done that, done with it. I'm far enough from Bangor but close enough when I need to go to the stores there. Works for me. My co-worker would LOVE to be in the middle of no man's land; said she might do that once she retires (in about 5 years). Her hubby is right there with her on that one. Told her make sure they can shovel out the snow in the winter; might be hard to get someone to do it out in the woods!

ugh! Temps last week were nuts. Somewhere in the 90s then mix in humidity and dew points. Sleeping at night was such a premium. Miserable! Finally got rain and relief Friday. Now it's raining all weekend, pretty much through Thursday. At least it's not torrential rains. Might get a thunderstorm here and there so winds and lightening might be in the cards. Won't be sunny all day until Friday. Guess we're getting all our rain at the end of June; Mother Nature is so confused at the moment. Yah.