Shot In The Dark

If it is true, as the saying goes, "A day late and a dollar short," does it mean if one is a day early that money will be coming in?  If so, then I should be independently wealthy by nightfall.  Last week I was, as usual, running behind and rushed to meet Trash Guy on the road before he trundled off to parts unknown.  Not wanting a repeat performance, I hurried around in the dark this morning to load up the truck and beat TG to the corner.  I got worried when I saw only one other barrel down by the mailboxes.  Hmmm?  Evidently I am not the only one who is calendar challenged.  It is Monday.  Not Tuesday.  Not trash day yet.  I had time.  Oh well.  I'll wait for the cash to roll in.

One benefit to getting rolling early this morning was this view of the Super Moon, still hanging in the western sky.  That blue dot in the middle is some sort of camera defect, probably due to the flash, and not supposed to be there.  We watched and waited for the lunar eclipse.  Unfortunately, the rising of the moon and beginning of the eclipse were hidden behind a low cloud cover, but we did get to see the eclipse itself, if not the "blood moon" effect.  Bessie was quite pleased to be out on night walkies; it's been a long time.

Having a handy-dandy leaf blower puts a terrible burden on a person.  In the past I could watch leaves pile up on the deck and think, "Well, I'll have to do something about that one of these days, but it's too hot (windy, cold, whatever excuse was at hand) to do right now.  The breezes blow and the leaves fall and I, the Great Procrastinator, am out of reasons to put it off.  I've been clearing the deck weekly, if only to justify the purchase.

Knowing that I'd probably not get a good shot in the dark last night, I took this photo of another (yes, yet another) fabulous sunset in the evening.

It's probably a long shot, but I'm planning how to spend all those dollars that will soon arrive.  It will be a blue moon before I'm ever early again.